diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 082c42f1bfebeb796d77083d66bdd398664f2070..9d478e091f8ef57d74618c263e475a20010f9744 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-include README.rst buildout.cfg develop.cfg COPYING version.txt requirements.txt test-requirements.txt
+include README.rst COPYING
 recursive-include doc *.py *.rst
 recursive-include bob/bio/vein/tests *.png *.txt *.hdf5
diff --git a/buildout.cfg b/buildout.cfg
deleted file mode 100644
index e521a2b53e80dad5b472b68ab67a481d73c6cbac..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/buildout.cfg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-; vim: set fileencoding=utf-8 :
-; Fri 19 Aug 2016 13:22:13 CEST
-
-[buildout]
-parts = scripts
-eggs = bob.bio.vein
-
-extensions = bob.buildout
-develop = .
-
-newest = false
-verbose = true
-
-[scripts]
-recipe = bob.buildout:scripts
-dependent-scripts = true