diff --git a/mypy.ini b/mypy.ini
--- a/mypy.ini
+++ b/mypy.ini
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@
 # type: ignore is needed, in other it isn't...
 warn_unused_ignores = False
 
-# support for sqlalchemy magic: see https://github.com/dropbox/sqlalchemy-stubs
-plugins = sqlmypy
-
 
 # 3rd party libraries without stubs (yet)
 
diff --git a/requirements-test.txt b/requirements-test.txt
--- a/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/requirements-test.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 hypothesis >= 3.11.0
 pytest
 pytest-mock
-sqlalchemy-stubs
 # pytz is in fact a dep of swh.model[testing] and should not be necessary, but
 # the dep on swh.model in the main requirements-swh.txt file shadows this one
 # adding the [testing] extra.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@
     install_requires=parse_requirements() + parse_requirements("swh"),
     extras_require={
         "testing": (parse_requirements("test") + parse_requirements("swh-journal")),
-        "schemata": ["SQLAlchemy"],
         "journal": parse_requirements("swh-journal"),
     },
     include_package_data=True,