diff --git a/requirements-devel.txt b/requirements-devel.txt
index c62dcdce..1de6d641 100644
--- a/requirements-devel.txt
+++ b/requirements-devel.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# replace the following line with the datalad version without
-# metadata code, when that is released, e.g.
 coverage
 datalad>=0.18
 datalad-metadata-model>=0.3.6
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f57302fc..6bafac7e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 six
-# replace the following line with the datalad version without
-# metadata code, when that is released, e.g.
 datalad>=0.18
 sphinx>=1.7.8
 sphinx-rtd-theme