diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 42fd999..26f7f0a 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 swh-*/
 packages/*
 snippets/
 !packages/README
 !packages/keys/
 
 .venv
-.mypy_cache
diff --git a/Makefile.python b/Makefile.python
index 7744ed5..92502eb 100644
--- a/Makefile.python
+++ b/Makefile.python
@@ -1,64 +1,64 @@
 #    -*- mode: Makefile -*-
 
 PYMODULE := $(shell basename `pwd` | sed 's/-/./g')
 PYDIR := $(shell basename `pwd` | sed 's%-%/%g')
 
 PYTHON_BIN := $(shell test -d bin/ && find bin/ -type f -executable | xargs egrep -H '^\#.*python' | cut -f 1 -d :)
 TEST_DIRS := .
 
 TEST = python3 -m pytest
 TESTFLAGS =
 CODESPELL = codespell
 CODESPELLFLAGS =
 FLAKE = python3 -m flake8
 FLAKEFLAGS =
 LINT = pylint3
 LINTFLAGS = --rcfile=../pylintrc
 MYPY = mypy
-MYPYFLAGS = --config-file ../mypy.ini
+MYPYFLAGS =
 
 # MYPYPATH is not needed if all swh.* packages that support typing are
 # annotated with PEP 561 py.typed marker files
 #
 # MYPYPATH := $(shell pip list | grep '^swh\.' | awk '{print $$3}' | paste -sd:)
 
 all:
 
 .PHONY: test
 test:
 	$(TEST) $(TESTFLAGS) $(TEST_DIRS)
 
 .PHONY: coverage
 coverage:
 	$(TEST) $(TESTFLAGS) --cov=$(PYMODULE) --cov-branch $(TEST_DIRS)
 
 .PHONY: check check-flake check-codespell
 check: check-flake check-codespell
 check-flake:
 	$(FLAKE) $(FLAKEFLAGS) swh $(PYTHON_BIN)
 check-codespell:
 	find swh docs -name '*.py' -o -name '*.rst' | xargs -r $(CODESPELL) $(CODESPELLFLAGS)
 	find . -maxdepth 1 -iname 'readme*' | xargs -r $(CODESPELL) $(CODESPELLFLAGS)
 typecheck:
 	$(MYPY) $(MYPYFLAGS) -p $(PYMODULE)
 
 .PHONY: check-staged
 check-staged:
 	git diff -z --staged --name-only -- '*.py' $(PYTHON_BIN) \
 		| xargs -0 -L1 -i'{}' /bin/sh -c \
 		"git show ':{}' | $(FLAKE) $(FLAKEFLAGS) --stdin-display-name '{}' -"
 
 .PHONY: lint
 lint:
 	$(LINT) $(LINTFLAGS) $(PYMODULE)
 
 .PHONY: docs
 docs:
 	make -C docs
 
 .PHONY: distclean
 # clean up Python bytecode files. Also consider random *.pyc files, in case
 # Python 2.x has been run by mistake
 distclean:
 	find . -type d -name __pycache__ | xargs rm -rf
 	find . -type f -name '*.pyc' -delete
diff --git a/mypy.ini b/mypy.ini
deleted file mode 100644
index a700c7f..0000000
--- a/mypy.ini
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,79 +0,0 @@
-[mypy]
-
-# shared cache directoy, common for all swh-* repositories
-cache_dir = ../.mypy_cache
-
-namespace_packages = True
-warn_unused_ignores = True
-
-# support for sqlalchemy magic, see https://github.com/dropbox/sqlalchemy-stubs
-plugins = sqlmypy
-
-
-# 3rd party libraries without stubs (yet)
-
-[mypy-aiohttp_utils.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-
-[mypy-azure.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-
-[mypy-arrow.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-
-[mypy-celery.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-
-[mypy-decorator.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-
-[mypy-deprecated.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-
-[mypy-elasticsearch.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-
-[mypy-kafka.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-
-[mypy-kombu.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-
-[mypy-libcloud.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-
-[mypy-msgpack.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-
-[mypy-pkg_resources.extern.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-
-[mypy-psutil.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-
-[mypy-psycopg2.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-
-[mypy-pyblake2.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-
-[mypy-pytest.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-
-[mypy-pytest_kafka.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-
-[mypy-rados.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-
-[mypy-request_mock.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-
-[mypy-retrying.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-
-[mypy-sqlalchemy.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True
-
-[mypy-systemd.*]
-ignore_missing_imports = True