diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 8784ceb..1ba6dd7 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ importlib-metadata==7.0.0
 iniconfig==2.0.0
 mypy==1.7.1 ; implementation_name == "cpython"
 mypy-extensions==1.0.0
-packaging==23.2
+packaging==25.0
 pathspec==0.12.1
 platformdirs==4.1.0
 pluggy==1.3.0
diff --git a/requirements-docs.txt b/requirements-docs.txt
index f6c9b46..c7c4036 100644
--- a/requirements-docs.txt
+++ b/requirements-docs.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ idna==3.7
 imagesize==1.4.1
 jinja2==3.1.6
 markupsafe==2.1.3
-packaging==23.2
+packaging==25.0
 pygments==2.17.2
 requests==2.32.4
 snowballstemmer==2.2.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ef6c0f9..af17271 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -9,8 +9,10 @@
 def obtain_requirements(file_name):
     with open(file_name) as fd_in:
         for line in fd_in:
-            if '#' not in line:
-                yield line.strip()
+            line = line.split('#')[0]
+            line = line.strip()
+            if line:
+                yield line
 
 
 class PyTest(Command):
@@ -46,14 +48,8 @@ def read_injector_variable(name):
 requirements_dev = list(obtain_requirements('requirements-dev.txt'))
 
 
-try:
-    import pypandoc
-
-    long_description = pypandoc.convert_file('README.md', 'rst')
-except ImportError:
-    warnings.warn('Could not locate pandoc, using Markdown long_description.', ImportWarning)
-    with open('README.md') as f:
-        long_description = f.read()
+with open('README.md') as f:
+    long_description = f.read()
 
 description = long_description.splitlines()[0].strip()
 
@@ -66,6 +62,7 @@ def read_injector_variable(name):
     options=dict(egg_info=dict(tag_build=version_tag)),
     description=description,
     long_description=long_description,
+    long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
     license='BSD',
     platforms=['any'],
     packages=['injector'],