diff --git a/tools/pip-requires b/tools/pip-requires
index ca24dc7c1a..741480fdc5 100644
--- a/tools/pip-requires
+++ b/tools/pip-requires
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ flask==0.9
 greenlet>=0.3.1
 happybase>=0.4
 httplib2
-importlib # required by kombu on python2.6 only and not detected by the mirror script
 iso8601>=0.1.4
 jsonschema
 kombu>=1.0.4