diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 481e01b63..83e37288d 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # The language in this case has no bearing - we are going to be making use of conda for a
 # python distribution for the scientific python stack.
-language: python
+language: generic
 
 sudo: false