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-swh.txt b/requirements-swh.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7d936b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements-swh.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+swh.core >= 0.0.14
+swh.scheduler
+swh.storage >= 0.0.76
+swh.loader.dir >= 0.0.23
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index bd9617b..b814c8e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,5 @@
 # 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
-swh.core >= 0.0.14
-swh.scheduler
-swh.storage >= 0.0.76
-swh.loader.dir >= 0.0.23
 retrying
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e2fd83b..a1a4e31 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,30 +1,30 @@
 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.tar',
     description='Software Heritage Tarball Loader',
     author='Software Heritage developers',
     author_email='swh-devel@inria.fr',
     url='https://forge.softwareheritage.org/diffusion/DLDTAR',
     packages=['swh.loader.tar', 'swh.loader.tar.tests'],
     scripts=['bin/swh-diff-db-mirror',
              'bin/swh-ls-tarball-size',
              'bin/swh-update-tarball-size'],
     install_requires=parse_requirements(),
     setup_requires=['vcversioner'],
     vcversioner={},
     include_package_data=True,
 )