diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 7a82dbb..a8941f2 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ Changelog
 
 In Development
 ==============
+* Allow for stripping/removing comments (needed by certain tools which
+  bundle python-archive)
+* Use relative import to allow module relocation.
 * Moved tests outside of the archive package directory.
 
 
diff --git a/archive/__init__.py b/archive/__init__.py
index e7dc1b8..4c65b1a 100644
--- a/archive/__init__.py
+++ b/archive/__init__.py
@@ -3,15 +3,17 @@
 import tarfile
 import zipfile
 
-from archive.compat import IS_PY2, is_string
+from .compat import IS_PY2, is_string
 
 
 class ArchiveException(Exception):
     """Base exception class for all archive errors."""
+    pass
 
 
 class UnrecognizedArchiveFormat(ArchiveException):
     """Error raised when passed file is not a recognized archive format."""
+    pass
 
 
 class UnsafeArchive(ArchiveException):
@@ -19,6 +21,7 @@ class UnsafeArchive(ArchiveException):
     Error raised when passed file contains paths that would be extracted
     outside of the target directory.
     """
+    pass
 
 
 def extract(path, to_path='', ext='', **kwargs):