diff --git a/docs/development.rst b/docs/development.rst
index 59d004fa..4374acf2 100644
--- a/docs/development.rst
+++ b/docs/development.rst
@@ -359,7 +359,6 @@ Creating releases
 
 #. Build package and upload to PyPI::
 
-    rm MANIFEST                         # Will be regenerated by setup.py
     python setup.py sdist upload
 
 #. Update the Debian package.