diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python-packaging.inc b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python-packaging.inc
deleted file mode 100644
index 418483f4e8..0000000000
--- a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python-packaging.inc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Core utilities for Python packages"
-HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/pypa/packaging"
-LICENSE = "Apache-2.0 & BSD"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=faadaedca9251a90b205c9167578ce91"
-
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "19e0d1f82a9007b448650ccfeffd0a26"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "3c292b474fda1671ec57d46d739d072bfd495a4f51ad01a055121d81e952b7a3"
-
-DEPENDS += "${PYTHON_PN}-setuptools-scm-native"
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${PYTHON_PN}-six ${PYTHON_PN}-pyparsing"
diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-packaging_20.3.bb b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-packaging_20.3.bb
index aa20fb26f9..9eee84b1b2 100644
--- a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-packaging_20.3.bb
+++ b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-packaging_20.3.bb
@@ -1,2 +1,12 @@
+DESCRIPTION = "Core utilities for Python packages"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/pypa/packaging"
+LICENSE = "Apache-2.0 & BSD"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=faadaedca9251a90b205c9167578ce91"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "19e0d1f82a9007b448650ccfeffd0a26"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "3c292b474fda1671ec57d46d739d072bfd495a4f51ad01a055121d81e952b7a3"
+
 inherit pypi setuptools3
-require python-packaging.inc
+
+DEPENDS += "${PYTHON_PN}-setuptools-scm-native"
+RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${PYTHON_PN}-six ${PYTHON_PN}-pyparsing"