diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 358b9b450..5138cc447 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
 [build-system]
 requires = ["setuptools", "wheel", "pkgconfig", "Cython", "setuptools_scm>=1.7"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[tool.setuptools_scm]
+# make sure we have the same versioning scheme with all setuptools_scm versions, to avoid different autogenerated files
+# https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1015052
+# https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/6875
+write_to = "src/borg/_version.py"
+write_to_template = "__version__ = version = {version!r}\n"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 00048b9ac..a80660e0d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -262,10 +262,6 @@ def members_appended(*ds):
 # https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/6875
 setup(
     name='borgbackup',
-    use_scm_version={
-        'write_to': 'src/borg/_version.py',
-        'write_to_template': '__version__ = version = {version!r}\n',
-    },
     author='The Borg Collective (see AUTHORS file)',
     author_email='borgbackup@python.org',
     url='https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/',