diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/detect-secrets/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/detect-secrets/default.nix
similarity index 94%
rename from pkgs/development/tools/detect-secrets/default.nix
rename to pkgs/development/python-modules/detect-secrets/default.nix
index 5dc765ffe6f3..2e07f98d78dd 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/detect-secrets/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/detect-secrets/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 { lib
-, buildPythonApplication
+, buildPythonPackage
 , fetchFromGitHub
 , gibberish-detector
 , isPy27
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 , unidiff
 }:
 
-buildPythonApplication rec {
+buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "detect-secrets";
   version = "1.1.0";
   disabled = isPy27;
@@ -70,6 +70,6 @@ buildPythonApplication rec {
     description = "An enterprise friendly way of detecting and preventing secrets in code";
     homepage = "https://github.com/Yelp/detect-secrets";
     license = licenses.asl20;
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.marsam ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ marsam ];
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 0c021c45425a..6f77d4d38321 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1476,7 +1476,7 @@ with pkgs;
 
   deskew = callPackage ../applications/graphics/deskew { };
 
-  detect-secrets = python3Packages.callPackage ../development/tools/detect-secrets { };
+  detect-secrets = with python3Packages; toPythonApplication detect-secrets;
 
   dfmt = callPackage ../tools/text/dfmt { };
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 37ce4b573208..5875c4f47e9b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -1930,6 +1930,8 @@ in {
 
   desktop-notifier = callPackage ../development/python-modules/desktop-notifier { };
 
+  detect-secrets = callPackage ../development/python-modules/detect-secrets { };
+
   devolo-home-control-api = callPackage ../development/python-modules/devolo-home-control-api { };
 
   devpi-common = callPackage ../development/python-modules/devpi-common { };