diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 5aaa4c1..5ab0e08 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -1,45 +1,49 @@
 repos:
 - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
   rev: v2.4.0
   hooks:
   - id: trailing-whitespace
-  - id: flake8
   - id: check-json
   - id: check-yaml
 
+- repo: https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8
+  rev: 3.8.3
+  hooks:
+  - id: flake8
+
 - repo: https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell
   rev: v1.16.0
   hooks:
   - id: codespell
 
 - repo: local
   hooks:
   - id: mypy
     name: mypy
     entry: mypy
     args: [swh]
     pass_filenames: false
     language: system
     types: [python]
 
 - repo: https://github.com/python/black
   rev: 19.10b0
   hooks:
   - id: black
 
 # unfortunately, we are far from being able to enable this...
 # - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/pydocstyle.git
 #   rev: 4.0.0
 #   hooks:
 #   - id: pydocstyle
 #     name: pydocstyle
 #     description: pydocstyle is a static analysis tool for checking compliance with Python docstring conventions.
 #     entry: pydocstyle --convention=google
 #     language: python
 #     types: [python]
 
 #- repo: https://github.com/asottile/blacken-docs
 #  rev: v1.0.0-1
 #  hooks:
 #  - id: blacken-docs
 #    additional_dependencies: [black==19.3b0]