diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index f3233beaf..db4483592 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # stuff we need to include into the sdist is handled automatically by
 # setuptools_scm - it includes all git-committed files.
 # but we want to exclude some committed files/dirs not needed in the sdist:
-exclude .coafile .coveragerc .editorconfig .gitattributes .gitignore .mailmap .travis.yml Vagrantfile
+exclude .coafile .editorconfig .gitattributes .gitignore .mailmap .travis.yml Vagrantfile
 prune .travis
 prune .github