diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index d9b2665a4..2a92ebecc 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 include Makefile
 include Makefile.local
 include README.db_testing
 include README.dev
 include requirements.txt
+include requirements-swh.txt
 include version.txt
 recursive-include sql *
diff --git a/requirements-swh.txt b/requirements-swh.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d89322fc4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements-swh.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+swh.core >= 0.0.28
+swh.objstorage >= 0.0.17
+swh.scheduler
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 57afc6f8d..2661e11c0 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,13 +1,9 @@
 python-dateutil
 psycopg2
 vcversioner
 
 # remote storage API server
 flask
 
-# Internal dependencies
-swh.core >= 0.0.28
-swh.objstorage >= 0.0.17
 
 click
-swh.scheduler
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index eee147c36..7dc27a7b6 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,38 +1,38 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 
 from setuptools import setup
 
 
 def parse_requirements():
     requirements = []
-    with open('requirements.txt') as f:
-        for line in f.readlines():
-            line = line.strip()
-            if not line or line.startswith('#'):
-                continue
-            requirements.append(line)
-
+    for reqf in ('requirements.txt', 'requirements-swh.txt'):
+        with open(reqf) as f:
+            for line in f.readlines():
+                line = line.strip()
+                if not line or line.startswith('#'):
+                    continue
+                requirements.append(line)
     return requirements
 
 
 setup(
     name='swh.storage',
     description='Software Heritage storage manager',
     author='Software Heritage developers',
     author_email='swh-devel@inria.fr',
     url='https://forge.softwareheritage.org/diffusion/DSTO/',
     packages=[
         'swh.storage',
         'swh.storage.archiver',
         'swh.storage.api',
         'swh.storage.provenance',
         'swh.storage.tests',
     ],
     scripts=[
         'bin/swh-storage-add-dir',
     ],
     install_requires=parse_requirements(),
     setup_requires=['vcversioner'],
     vcversioner={},
     include_package_data=True,
 )