diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 105445f..ca1e6df 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -36,8 +36,6 @@ setup_requires =
     # not conforming to semantic versioning, but it succeed with tags as
     # `2.2.0-rc0`.
     setuptools_scm
-install_requires =
-    setuptools >=38.3.0
 tests_require =
     pytest
     tox