--- pyproject.toml
+++ pyproject.toml
@@ -118,11 +118,9 @@
 build-backend = 'mesonpy'
 requires = [
     'meson-python>=0.16',
-    'setuptools>=68',
     'Cython>=3.0.8',
     'pythran>=0.16',
     'lazy_loader>=0.4',
-    'numpy>=2.0',
 ]

 [tool.spin]