diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 459f4b6..0000000
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-include LICENSE
-include README.rst
-include HISTORY.rst
-include CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
-include Makefile
-
-exclude tests
-recursive-exclude .circleci *
-recursive-exclude .github *
-recursive-exclude tests *
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ce3907a..05f8753 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ supersearchfacet = "crashstats_tools.cmd_supersearchfacet:supersearchfacet"
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 dev = [
     "build",
-    "check-manifest",
     "cogapp",
     "freezegun",
     "pytest",
@@ -57,7 +56,7 @@ dev = [
 
 
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools"]
+requires = ["setuptools", "setuptools-scm"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"