diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
 
 ### :bug: Fixes
 
+- Fix conflict on `__init__.py` file on `backports` root module by transforming
+  `backports.zstd` into an implicit namespace package (see PEP-420)
 - Raise an exception at both build and runtime when using an unsupported Python version,
   instead of crashing with a segmentation fault at runtime (in the rare cases where
   `backports.zstd` was installed despite the `requires-python` marker)
diff --git a/src/python/backports/__init__.py b/src/python/backports/__init__.py
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--- a/src/python/backports/__init__.py
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@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-# see https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/backports
-
-# A Python "namespace package" http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0382/
-# This always goes inside of a namespace package's __init__.py
-
-from pkgutil import extend_path
-
-__path__ = extend_path(__path__, __name__)