diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/glymur/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/glymur/default.nix
index 50ed257f57e0..9a0b1b09db68 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/glymur/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/glymur/default.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 , buildPythonPackage
 , fetchFromGitHub
 , numpy
-, setuptools
 , python
 , scikitimage
 , openjpeg