diff --git a/.pylint-plugins/astng_hashlib.py b/.pylint-plugins/astng_hashlib.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f4b7871c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.pylint-plugins/astng_hashlib.py
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+#
+# started from http://www.logilab.org/blogentry/78354
+#
+
+from logilab.astng import MANAGER
+from logilab.astng.builder import ASTNGBuilder
+
+def hashlib_transform(module):
+    if module.name == 'hashlib':
+        fake = ASTNGBuilder(MANAGER).string_build('''
+
+class fakehash(object):
+  digest_size = -1
+  def __init__(self, value): pass
+  def digest(self):
+    return u''
+  def hexdigest(self):
+    return u''
+  def update(self, value): pass
+
+class md5(fakehash):
+  pass
+
+class sha1(fakehash):
+  pass
+
+class sha256(fakehash):
+  pass
+
+''')
+        for hashfunc in ('sha256', 'sha1', 'md5'):
+            module.locals[hashfunc] = fake.locals[hashfunc]
+
+def register(linter):
+    """called when loaded by pylint --load-plugins, register our tranformation
+    function here
+    """
+    MANAGER.register_transformer(hashlib_transform)
+
diff --git a/jenkins-build b/jenkins-build
index 281aa1d4..81639626 100755
--- a/jenkins-build
+++ b/jenkins-build
@@ -72,17 +72,17 @@ pyflakes fdroid makebuildserver fdroidserver/*.py setup.py
 
 cd $WORKSPACE
 set +e
-# disable E1101 until there is a plugin to handle this properly:
-#   Module 'sys' has no '_MEIPASS' member
-# disable F0401 until there is a plugin to handle this properly:
-#   keysync-gui:25: [F] Unable to import 'ordereddict'
 # use the virtualenv python so pylint checks against its installed libs
-python /usr/bin/pylint --output-format=parseable --reports=n \
-    fdroidserver/*.py fdroid makebuildserver setup.py > $WORKSPACE/pylint.parseable
+    PYTHONPATH=$WORKSPACE/.pylint-plugins python /usr/bin/pylint \
+        --output-format=parseable --reports=n \
+        --load-plugins astng_hashlib \
+        fdroidserver/*.py fdroid makebuildserver setup.py > $WORKSPACE/pylint.parseable
 
 # to only tell jenkins there was an error if we got ERROR or FATAL, uncomment these:
+# running pylint in the virtualenv is causing this FATAL error, which is a bug:
+# https://bitbucket.org/logilab/pylint/issue/73/pylint-is-unable-to-import
 [ $(($? & 1)) = "1" ] && echo "FATALs found"
-[ $(($? & 2)) = "2" ] && echo "ERRORs found"
-[ $(($? & 4)) = "4" ] && echo "WARNINGs found"
+[ $(($? & 2)) = "2" ] && exit 2
+[ $(($? & 4)) = "4" ] && exit 4
 set -e
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9c771d30..3bfea041 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ setup(name='fdroidserver',
         'paramiko',
         'PIL',
         'python-magic',
-        'ssh',
         ],
       classifiers=[
         'Development Status :: 3 - Alpha',