diff --git a/ceph.spec.in b/ceph.spec.in
index 459bce9ea28..fae1e390eba 100644
--- a/ceph.spec.in
+++ b/ceph.spec.in
@@ -672,7 +672,6 @@ Group:          System/Filesystems
 Requires:       ceph-mgr = %{_epoch_prefix}%{version}-%{release}
 Requires:       ceph-grafana-dashboards = %{_epoch_prefix}%{version}-%{release}
 Requires:       ceph-prometheus-alerts = %{_epoch_prefix}%{version}-%{release}
-Requires:       python%{python3_pkgversion}-setuptools
 %if 0%{?fedora} || 0%{?rhel} >= 9
 Requires:       python%{python3_pkgversion}-grpcio
 Requires:       python%{python3_pkgversion}-grpcio-tools
diff --git a/debian/ceph-mgr-modules-core.requires b/debian/ceph-mgr-modules-core.requires
index b5d37b3a9ce..eeeca20bcff 100644
--- a/debian/ceph-mgr-modules-core.requires
+++ b/debian/ceph-mgr-modules-core.requires
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ packaging
 pecan
 werkzeug
 requests
-pkg-resources
 python-dateutil
diff --git a/src/pybind/mgr/requirements-required.txt b/src/pybind/mgr/requirements-required.txt
index 76fef65dbe4..a51b18696bd 100644
--- a/src/pybind/mgr/requirements-required.txt
+++ b/src/pybind/mgr/requirements-required.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ pytest-cov==2.7.1
 pyyaml
 requests-mock
 scipy
-setuptools
 werkzeug
 natsort
 bcrypt