diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 23250e3a81fb392a7056fd78f83c138f7952de4f..b03e4e83c58ce29d8498a4788a6ac3835c79fe7f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 addopts = '--cov=. --cov-report=term-missing'
 
 [tool.coverage.run]
-omit = ['setup.py', '.eggs/*']
+omit = ['.eggs/*']
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
deleted file mode 100755
index 2c88c7cce43835c7f358cb684ac33a05eb0cda27..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/setup.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-from setuptools import setup
-
-global_requires = ['prometheus_client', 'requests', 'pyyaml', 'packaging']
-tests_require = global_requires + ['pytest', 'pytest-cov']
-
-setup(
-    name='version-checker',
-    version='1.3',
-    url='',
-    license='',
-    author='',
-    author_email='',
-    description='',
-    scripts=['vcheck.py'],
-    setup_requires=['pytest-runner'],
-    install_requires=global_requires,
-    tests_require=tests_require
-)