diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 8fb8e2b118..74334350ec 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ PyYAML>=3.1.0
 yamlordereddictloader
 prompt_toolkit
 tqdm
-packaging>=15.2
 mwclient==0.8.1
 jsonschema>=2.6.0