diff --git a/docs/pydl/changes.rst b/docs/pydl/changes.rst
index 300d6d59..f9922926 100644
--- a/docs/pydl/changes.rst
+++ b/docs/pydl/changes.rst
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ PyDL Changelog
 
 * Support the ``firstField`` bit in ObjIDs from DR7 and earlier (Issue `#37`_).
 * Change tests of Astropy development version from Python 2 to Python 3.
-* Update to `astropy_helpers`_/v2.0.2.
+* Update to `astropy_helpers`_/v2.0.6.
 
 .. _`#37`: https://github.com/weaverba137/pydl/issues/37.
 
diff --git a/pydl/__init__.py b/pydl/__init__.py
index 539c61aa..49573eb6 100644
--- a/pydl/__init__.py
+++ b/pydl/__init__.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ class UnsupportedPythonError(Exception):
     pass
 
 if sys.version_info < tuple((int(val) for val in "2.7".split('.'))):
-    raise UnsupportedPythonError("packagename does not support Python < {}".format(2.7))
+    raise UnsupportedPythonError("PyDL does not support Python < {}".format(2.7))
 
 if not _ASTROPY_SETUP_:
     # For egg_info test builds to pass, put package imports here.