diff --git a/dev-python/sphinx/sphinx-1.7.5-r1.ebuild b/dev-python/sphinx/sphinx-1.7.5-r1.ebuild
index b3a122f0e25d2..1b87b472641d2 100644
--- a/dev-python/sphinx/sphinx-1.7.5-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/sphinx/sphinx-1.7.5-r1.ebuild
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 		dev-python/html5lib[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 		dev-python/mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 		dev-python/pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/pytest-cov[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 		dev-python/simplejson[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 		>=dev-python/sqlalchemy-0.9[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 		>=dev-python/whoosh-2.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]