diff --git a/.readthedocs.yaml b/.readthedocs.yaml
index 7c8204a4e8..8bc60f3f15 100644
--- a/.readthedocs.yaml
+++ b/.readthedocs.yaml
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ build:
     python: "3.10"
   apt_packages:
     - libapt-pkg-dev
+  jobs:
+    post_checkout:
+      - git fetch --tags --depth 1 # Also fetch tags
+      - git describe               # Useful for debugging
 
 # Build documentation in the docs/ directory with Sphinx
 sphinx:
@@ -25,3 +29,5 @@ python:
   install:
     - requirements: docs/requirements.txt
     - requirements: docs/sphinx-resources/.sphinx/requirements.txt
+    - method: pip
+      path: .
diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
index 6bb271e74d..6440406c66 100644
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements.txt
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ raven==6.10.0
 regex==2022.10.31
 requests-unixsocket==0.3.0
 semver==2.13.0
+setuptools==65.5.1
 simplejson==3.19.2
 snap-helpers==0.4.2
 spdx==2.5.1