diff --git a/metadata/manifest.yml b/metadata/manifest.yml
index 6ff14e5..f5950bd 100644
--- a/metadata/manifest.yml
+++ b/metadata/manifest.yml
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ Display-Name: Celery Cartridge
 Description: A cartridge for running the celeryd daemon to allow asynchronous tasks in your application.
 Version: '0.1'
 License: ASL 2.0
-Requires:
-  - python-2.7
 Vendor: Matti HEIKKILA
 Cartridge-Version:
   - '1.0.2'
@@ -14,7 +12,6 @@ Source-Url: https://github.com/cozezien/openshift-celery-cartridge.git
 Categories:
   - service
   - web_framework
-Requires:   python-2.7
 Provides:
   - celery
 Cart-Data: