diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
deleted file mode 100644
index fe4c1ab7..00000000
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-include LICENSE NEWS readme.md Requirements.txt
-recursive-include patacrep/data *
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 6d1233e0..1416374e 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ setup(
     install_requires=[
         "argparse", "unidecode", "jinja2", "chardet", "ply"
         ],
+    setup_requires=["hgtools"],
     include_package_data=True,
     entry_points={
         'console_scripts': [