diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
index 99e471b97f6..00eae1bee2a 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 tarball=configure-VERSION.tar.gz
-sha1=aa7054a0e6a582d2db1475dc47f63a54e6ac569f
-md5=40eab024557ad51e08dfb08e2753a465
-cksum=802824779
+sha1=aae3da52575f39b975e8e2ac304a7bb621f9dd46
+md5=b757f080ecd2aff6d71452e5c71bba2d
+cksum=2496852617
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
index f8291b5f3d7..4adc50c30b4 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-c47788b02a42ef4907a0e61e702fbe9bbef27590
+253fea5b154db01e0b890a71f1589ac964bc1e96
diff --git a/src/sage/misc/persist.pyx b/src/sage/misc/persist.pyx
index 80d4f9b23d5..0230e0b4252 100644
--- a/src/sage/misc/persist.pyx
+++ b/src/sage/misc/persist.pyx
@@ -1130,7 +1130,8 @@ def unpickle_all(target, debug=False, run_test_suite=False):
         Successfully unpickled 1 objects.
         Failed to unpickle 0 objects.
     """
-    import os.path, tarfile
+    import os.path
+    import tarfile
 
     ok_count = 0
     fail_count = 0