diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 08ebc95..e7c46fc 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 include Makefile
 include requirements.txt
+include requirements-swh.txt
 include version.txt
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements-swh.txt
similarity index 77%
copy from requirements.txt
copy to requirements-swh.txt
index bb2e41c..9a12179 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements-swh.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
-python-debian
-vcversioner
 swh.core
 swh.loader.dir >= 0.0.15
 swh.model >= 0.0.4
 swh.scheduler
 swh.storage >= 0.0.31
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index bb2e41c..e7c2c27 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,2 @@
 python-debian
 vcversioner
-swh.core
-swh.loader.dir >= 0.0.15
-swh.model >= 0.0.4
-swh.scheduler
-swh.storage >= 0.0.31
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 98173b1..d7f0125 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,28 +1,28 @@
 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.loader.debian',
     description='Software Heritage Debian loader',
     author='Software Heritage developers',
     author_email='swh-devel@inria.fr',
     url='https://forge.softwareheritage.org/diffusion/DLDDEB/',
     packages=['swh.loader.debian', 'swh.loader.debian.listers'],
     scripts=['bin/swh-load-deb-snapshot'],
     install_requires=parse_requirements(),
     setup_requires=['vcversioner'],
     vcversioner={},
     include_package_data=True,
 )