diff --git a/.github/workflows/pypi-publish.yml b/.github/workflows/pypi-publish.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 01debc6..0000000
--- a/.github/workflows/pypi-publish.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2024 CERN.
-#
-# Invenio-CERN-sync is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
-# under the terms of the MIT License; see LICENSE file for more details.
-
-name: Publish
-
-on:
-  push:
-    tags:
-      - v*
-
-jobs:
-  build-n-publish:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
-      - name: Set up Python 3.12
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-        with:
-          python-version: 3.12
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-          pip install setuptools wheel babel
-      - name: Build package
-        run: |
-          python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
-      - name: pypi-publish
-        uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@v1.13
-        with:
-          user: __token__
-
-          password: ${{ secrets.pypi_token }}
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 2995e5e..0000000
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2024 CERN.
-#
-# Invenio-CERN-sync is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
-# under the terms of the MIT License; see LICENSE file for more details.
-
-# TODO: Generate this manifest file by running the following commands:
-# (please sort the lines in this file after running below commands)
-#
-#  git init
-#  git add -A
-#  pip install -e .[all]
-#  check-manifest -u
-
-include .dockerignore
-include .editorconfig
-recursive-include .github/workflows *.yml
-include *.md
-include *.sh
-include .pyproject.toml
-recursive-include invenio_cern_sync *.py
-recursive-include tests *.py
diff --git a/run-tests.sh b/run-tests.sh
index ab204fc..b0a4a33 100755
--- a/run-tests.sh
+++ b/run-tests.sh
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ function cleanup() {
 }
 trap cleanup EXIT
 
-python -m check_manifest
 eval "$(docker-services-cli up --db ${DB:-postgresql} --search ${SEARCH:-opensearch2} --cache ${CACHE:-redis} --mq ${MQ:-rabbitmq} --env)"
 python -m pytest
 tests_exit_code=$?