diff --git a/build/data_lists/onap_pip_packages.list b/build/data_lists/onap_pip_packages.list
index ba5cdf7..ab4949b 100644
--- a/build/data_lists/onap_pip_packages.list
+++ b/build/data_lists/onap_pip_packages.list
@@ -7,6 +7,5 @@
 Jinja2==2.10.1
 MarkupSafe==1.1.1
 requests==2.22.0
-setuptools==40.7.1
 urllib3==1.25.3
 Werkzeug==0.15.4