--- a/setup.py	2019-02-20 18:52:12.000000000 +0100
+++ b/setup.py	2019-03-02 13:55:39.014019260 +0100
@@ -20,12 +20,6 @@
 
 description = re.search(r'"""(.*)\.(?:\r\n|\r|\n)', code).groups()[0]
 
-readme = re.search(r'(?:\r\n|\r|\n){2}"""(.*)"""(?:\r\n|\r|\n){2}from', code,
-                   re.MULTILINE | re.DOTALL).groups()[0]
-
-readme = '\n'.join([description, '=' * len(description)]
-                   + readme.splitlines()[1:])
-
 license = re.search(r'(# Copyright.*?(?:\r\n|\r|\n))(?:\r\n|\r|\n)+""', code,
                     re.MULTILINE | re.DOTALL).groups()[0]
 
@@ -41,7 +35,6 @@
     name='tifffile',
     version=version,
     description=description,
-    long_description=readme,
     author='Christoph Gohlke',
     author_email='cgohlke@uci.edu',
     url='https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/',