diff --git a/scrapy/utils/display.py b/scrapy/utils/display.py
index f4d17224b..d28df40c7 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/display.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/display.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ pprint and pformat wrappers with colorization support
 import ctypes
 import platform
 import sys
-from distutils.version import LooseVersion as parse_version
+from packaging.version import Version as parse_version
 from pprint import pformat as pformat_
 
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fcc902c62..8b9c43738 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ install_requires = [
     'protego>=0.1.15',
     'itemadapter>=0.1.0',
     'setuptools',
+    'packaging',
     'tldextract',
     'lxml>=4.3.0',
 ]