diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
deleted file mode 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ /dev/null
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-include hg
-recursive-include mercurial *.py
-include hgweb.cgi hgwebdir.cgi
-include hgeditor rewrite-log
-include tests/README tests/*.py tests/test-*[a-z0-9] tests/*.out tests/*.bin
-prune tests/*.err
-include *.txt
-include doc/README doc/Makefile doc/gendoc.py doc/*.txt doc/*.html doc/*.[0-9]
-recursive-include templates *
-recursive-include contrib *
-recursive-include hgext *
-include README
-include CONTRIBUTORS
-include COPYING
-include Makefile
-include MANIFEST.in
-prune *.elc *.orig *.rej *~ *.o *.so *.pyc *.swp *.prof