diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 26af5221f..7fd06517e 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ src/borg/platform/posix.c
 src/borg/_version.py
 *.egg-info
 *.pyc
-*.pyo
 *.so
 .idea/
 .cache/
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 2ec72dc24..bdabc64d0 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ prune .github
 graft src
 graft docs
 prune docs/_build
-global-exclude *.py[co] *.orig *.so *.dll
+global-exclude *.pyc *.orig *.so *.dll