diff --git a/pythondistdeps.py b/pythondistdeps.py
index 8756fdf..b8143b8 100755
--- a/pythondistdeps.py
+++ b/pythondistdeps.py
@@ -128,10 +128,6 @@ for f in files:
                 warn("Version for {!r} has not been found".format(dist), RuntimeWarning)
                 continue
 
-        # XXX: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/pull/1275
-        import platform
-        platform.python_version = lambda: dist.py_version
-
         # This is the PEP 503 normalized name.
         # It does also convert dots to dashes, unlike dist.key.
         # In the current code, we only add additional provides with this.