diff --git a/dev-python/aodhclient/aodhclient-0.8.0.ebuild b/dev-python/aodhclient/aodhclient-0.8.0.ebuild
index ebd7ac8f8cd21..d262657f4fdc3 100644
--- a/dev-python/aodhclient/aodhclient-0.8.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/aodhclient/aodhclient-0.8.0.ebuild
@@ -31,9 +31,3 @@ RDEPEND="
 	>=dev-python/debtcollector-1.3.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/pyparsing[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 "
-
-python_prepare_all() {
-	# built in...
-	sed -i '/^hacking/d' test-requirements.txt || die
-	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
-}