diff --git a/dev-requirements.txt b/dev-requirements.txt
index 042bf51..1a2d695 100644
--- a/dev-requirements.txt
+++ b/dev-requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 requests==2.31.0
-setuptools>=69.5.1
+setuptools>=40.8.0
 wheel>=0.35.0
 twine>=3.5.0
 vulture>=1.0