error in newfies-dialer setup command: 'install_requires' mu

I get this error when trying to run "python setup.py":
error in newfies-dialer setup command: 'install_requires' must be a string or list of strings containing valid project/version requirement specifiers
Has the setuptools API changed or what?
error in newfies-dialer setup command: 'install_requires' must be a string or list of strings containing valid project/version requirement specifiers
Has the setuptools API changed or what?