diff -Nur dummyserver/handlers.py dummyserver/handlers.py
--- dummyserver/handlers.py	2014-04-18 07:35:23.000000000 +0200
+++ dummyserver/handlers.py	2014-07-04 12:18:35.064230194 +0200
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@
     """
     import tornado.httputil
     import email.utils
-    from urllib3.packages import six
+    import six
     if not six.PY3:
         line = line.encode('utf-8')
     parts = tornado.httputil._parseparam(';' + line)
diff -Nur setup.py setup.py
--- setup.py	2014-06-24 20:19:21.000000000 +0200
+++ setup.py	2014-07-04 12:18:55.856229523 +0200
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@
       url='http://urllib3.readthedocs.org/',
       license='MIT',
       packages=['urllib3',
-                'urllib3.packages', 'urllib3.packages.ssl_match_hostname',
                 'urllib3.contrib', 'urllib3.util',
                 ],
       requires=requirements,
diff -Nur test/test_collections.py test/test_collections.py
--- test/test_collections.py	2014-03-15 01:05:07.000000000 +0100
+++ test/test_collections.py	2014-07-04 12:25:52.942216059 +0200
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     HTTPHeaderDict,
     RecentlyUsedContainer as Container
 )
-from urllib3.packages import six
+import six
 xrange = six.moves.xrange
 
 
diff -Nur test/test_connectionpool.py test/test_connectionpool.py
--- test/test_connectionpool.py	2014-03-04 20:08:03.000000000 +0100
+++ test/test_connectionpool.py	2014-07-06 19:49:59.995827758 +0200
@@ -6,7 +6,12 @@
     HTTPConnectionPool,
 )
 from urllib3.util import Timeout
-from urllib3.packages.ssl_match_hostname import CertificateError
+try:
+    # python3.2+
+    from ssl import CertificateError
+except ImportError:
+    # Older python where the backport from pypi is installed
+    from backports.ssl_match_hostname import CertificateError
 from urllib3.exceptions import (
     ClosedPoolError,
     EmptyPoolError,
diff -Nur test/test_fields.py test/test_fields.py
--- test/test_fields.py	2014-03-04 20:08:03.000000000 +0100
+++ test/test_fields.py	2014-07-04 12:27:03.632213778 +0200
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import unittest
 
 from urllib3.fields import guess_content_type, RequestField
-from urllib3.packages.six import u
+from six import u
 
 
 class TestRequestField(unittest.TestCase):
diff -Nur test/test_filepost.py test/test_filepost.py
--- test/test_filepost.py	2014-03-15 01:05:07.000000000 +0100
+++ test/test_filepost.py	2014-07-04 12:27:22.673213163 +0200
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 from urllib3.filepost import encode_multipart_formdata, iter_fields
 from urllib3.fields import RequestField
-from urllib3.packages.six import b, u
+from six import b, u
 
 
 BOUNDARY = '!! test boundary !!'
diff -Nur test-requirements.txt test-requirements.txt
--- test-requirements.txt	2014-06-24 20:19:21.000000000 +0200
+++ test-requirements.txt	2014-07-06 19:48:14.791831154 +0200
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@
 mock==1.0.1
 tornado==3.1.1
 coverage==3.6
+six
+backports.ssl_match_hostname
diff -Nur urllib3/_collections.py urllib3/_collections.py
--- urllib3/_collections.py	2014-06-24 01:44:37.000000000 +0200
+++ urllib3/_collections.py	2014-07-04 12:51:43.761166000 +0200
@@ -16,11 +16,8 @@
             pass
 
 
-try: # Python 2.7+
-    from collections import OrderedDict
-except ImportError:
-    from .packages.ordered_dict import OrderedDict
-from .packages.six import itervalues
+from collections import OrderedDict
+from six import itervalues
 
 
 __all__ = ['RecentlyUsedContainer', 'HTTPHeaderDict']
diff -Nur urllib3/connection.py urllib3/connection.py
--- urllib3/connection.py	2014-06-24 01:44:37.000000000 +0200
+++ urllib3/connection.py	2014-07-06 19:52:27.263823004 +0200
@@ -33,8 +33,13 @@
 from .exceptions import (
     ConnectTimeoutError,
 )
-from .packages.ssl_match_hostname import match_hostname
-from .packages import six
+try:
+    # python3.2+
+    from ssl import match_hostname, CertificateError
+except ImportError:
+    # Older python where the backport from pypi is installed
+    from backports.ssl_match_hostname import match_hostname, CertificateError
+import six
 from .util import (
     assert_fingerprint,
     resolve_cert_reqs,
diff -Nur urllib3/connectionpool.py urllib3/connectionpool.py
--- urllib3/connectionpool.py	2014-06-24 01:44:37.000000000 +0200
+++ urllib3/connectionpool.py	2014-07-06 19:51:36.446824644 +0200
@@ -30,8 +30,13 @@
     ReadTimeoutError,
     ProxyError,
 )
-from .packages.ssl_match_hostname import CertificateError
-from .packages import six
+try:
+    # python3.2+
+    from ssl import match_hostname, CertificateError
+except ImportError:
+    # Older python where the backport from pypi is installed
+    from backports.ssl_match_hostname import match_hostname, CertificateError
+import six
 from .connection import (
     port_by_scheme,
     DummyConnection,
diff -Nur urllib3/fields.py urllib3/fields.py
--- urllib3/fields.py	2014-06-24 01:44:37.000000000 +0200
+++ urllib3/fields.py	2014-07-04 12:31:13.137205724 +0200
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 import email.utils
 import mimetypes
 
-from .packages import six
+import six
 
 
 def guess_content_type(filename, default='application/octet-stream'):
diff -Nur urllib3/filepost.py urllib3/filepost.py
--- urllib3/filepost.py	2014-06-24 01:44:37.000000000 +0200
+++ urllib3/filepost.py	2014-07-04 12:31:58.762204251 +0200
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
 from uuid import uuid4
 from io import BytesIO
 
-from .packages import six
-from .packages.six import b
+import six
+from six import b
 from .fields import RequestField
 
 writer = codecs.lookup('utf-8')[3]
diff -Nur urllib3/response.py urllib3/response.py
--- urllib3/response.py	2014-06-24 01:44:37.000000000 +0200
+++ urllib3/response.py	2014-07-04 12:32:18.507203614 +0200
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 from ._collections import HTTPHeaderDict
 from .exceptions import DecodeError, ReadTimeoutError
-from .packages.six import string_types as basestring, binary_type
+from six import string_types as basestring, binary_type
 from .util import is_fp_closed
 
 
diff -Nur urllib3/util/request.py urllib3/util/request.py
--- urllib3/util/request.py	2014-06-24 01:44:37.000000000 +0200
+++ urllib3/util/request.py	2014-07-04 12:29:20.645209355 +0200
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from base64 import b64encode
 
-from ..packages import six
+import six
 
 
 ACCEPT_ENCODING = 'gzip,deflate'