diff --git a/openstack/monasca-common/monasca-common.spec.j2 b/openstack/monasca-common/monasca-common.spec.j2
index c51285a33..39d6e8bed 100644
--- a/openstack/monasca-common/monasca-common.spec.j2
+++ b/openstack/monasca-common/monasca-common.spec.j2
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ BuildRequires:  {{ py3('oslotest') }}
 BuildRequires:  {{ py3('pbr') }}
 BuildRequires:  {{ py3('pyparsing') }}
 BuildRequires:  {{ py3('requests-mock') }}
-BuildRequires:  {{ py3('setuptools') }}
 BuildRequires:  {{ py3('simplejson') }}
 BuildRequires:  {{ py3('six') }}
 BuildRequires:  {{ py3('stestr') }}