diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d02ccadd71..715c9605f0 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 build
 dist
 heat.egg-info
-heat/versioninfo
 tags
 *.log
 heat-test.db
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 299e22fabc..dbe8e31331 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ include MANIFEST.in pylintrc
 include openstack-common.conf
 include babel.cfg install.sh run_tests.sh tox.ini uninstall.sh
 graft templates
-include heat/versioninfo
 include heat/cloudinit/config
 include heat/cloudinit/boothook.sh
 include heat/cloudinit/loguserdata.py