diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index a93604cfc..d3ffa4b6a 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 # to be included/excluded from the tarball produced by sdist
 include COPYING HACKING INSTALL NEWS README
-include autobuild.sh
 include MANIFEST.in
 include setup.py
-include todo.txt
 include .tx/config
 include virt-*
 recursive-include data *