diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b03c818..7c11a9e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
 # Add here external Python modules dependencies, one per line. Module names
 # should match https://pypi.python.org/pypi names. For the full spec or
 # dependency lines, see https://pip.readthedocs.org/en/1.1/requirements.html
-vcversioner
 sphinx
 sphinxcontrib-httpdomain
 sphinxcontrib-images
 sphinxcontrib-programoutput
 sphinx-tabs
 recommonmark
 sphinx_rtd_theme
 sphinx-click
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4b0c30e..9104d0b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,46 +1,46 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2017-2020  The Software Heritage developers
 # See the AUTHORS file at the top-level directory of this distribution
 # License: GNU General Public License version 3, or any later version
 # See top-level LICENSE file for more information
 
 import os
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
 
 def parse_requirements(name=None):
     if name:
         reqf = "requirements-%s.txt" % name
     else:
         reqf = "requirements.txt"
 
     requirements = []
     if not os.path.exists(reqf):
         return requirements
 
     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.docs",
     description="Software Heritage development documentation",
     python_requires=">=3.7",
     author="Software Heritage developers",
     author_email="swh-devel@inria.fr",
     url="https://forge.softwareheritage.org/source/swh-docs/",
     packages=find_packages(),
     scripts=[],
     install_requires=parse_requirements(),
-    setup_requires=["vcversioner"],
+    setup_requires=["setuptools-scm"],
+    use_scm_version=True,
     extras_require={
         "testing": parse_requirements("test"),
         "building": parse_requirements("swh"),
     },
-    vcversioner={},
     include_package_data=True,
 )