diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 68a9ef5..cd435e5 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
 Source: <dash-separated-module-name>  # example: swh-loader-pypi
 Maintainer: Software Heritage developers <swh-devel@inria.fr>
 Section: python
 Priority: optional
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9),
                dh-python (>= 2),
                python3-all,
                python3-nose,
                python3-setuptools,
+               python3-setuptools-scm,
                python3-swh.core,
-               python3-swh.storage,
-               python3-vcversioner
+               python3-swh.storage
 Standards-Version: 3.9.6
 Homepage: https://forge.softwareheritage.org/source/<phabricator short name>/
 
 Package: python3-<dot-separated-name-module>  # example: python3-swh.loader.pypi
 Architecture: all
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends}
 Description: Software Heritage <module-description>
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 684fc89..a92d174 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 # 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
 requests
 aiohttp
 ndjson
 plotly
 pandas
 numpy
 dash
 dash_bootstrap_components
 dulwich