diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 1b92e28b879d836691cd05d7b036b9474ebbffaf..a231d254e874af1931445cb893e7006590ed0f04 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -46,8 +46,6 @@ build:
     - echo "output_engine = mustache(\"markdown\")" >> .gitchangelog.rc
     - echo >> README.md
     - gitchangelog | sed -r '1,/^# Changelog$/s/^(# Changelog)$/#\1/' >> README.md
-    - python setup.py --version
-    - echo "version = '$(python setup.py --version)'" >> version.py
     - python setup.py sdist
 
 Install test:
@@ -70,9 +68,6 @@ versioncheck:
          export PUBLISHED_VERSION="$(pip install pipdeps== 2>&1 | grep -oE "\(from versions: .*)" | sed "s/(from versions: //" | sed "s/)//" | tr ", " "\n" | tail -n1)"
     - CMP_VERSION="$(cmp-version $BUILD_VERSION $PUBLISHED_VERSION)"
     - if [ $CMP_VERSION -eq 1 ]; then true; else echo 'Git tag is older/same version as module already available from public pypi repository. Please run git tag -a <version> -m "<version>"'; false; fi
-    #- >-
-    #     echo -e "import sys\nfrom packaging.version import Version, LegacyVersion\nver1=Version('$BUILD_VERSION')\nver2=Version('$PUBLISHED_VERSION')\nif ver1>ver2: sys.exit(0)\nif ver1<ver2: sys.exit(1)\nif ver1==ver2: sys.exit(2)" | python
-    #- if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then true; else echo 'Git tag is older/same version as module already available from public pypi repository. Please run git tag -a <version> -m "<version>"'; false; fi
 
 upload:
   stage: deploy