diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 5e63740d1..7757fd97d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ Babel>=1.3
 argparse
 dib-utils # Apache-2.0
 PyYAML>=3.1.0
-flake8>=2.2.4,<=2.4.1
+flake8<=2.4.1,>=2.2.4