diff --git a/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/constraints.txt b/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/constraints.txt
index b43674e4f50..b96d623cd1b 100644
--- a/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/constraints.txt
+++ b/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/constraints.txt
@@ -49,4 +49,3 @@ mccabe == 0.6.1
 pylint == 2.3.1
 typed-ast == 1.4.0  # 1.4.0 is required to compile on Python 3.8
 wrapt == 1.11.1
-semantic_version == 2.6.0 # newer versions are not supported on Python 2.6
diff --git a/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/units.txt b/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/units.txt
index 2d2508945aa..307d7c353f7 100644
--- a/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/units.txt
+++ b/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/requirements/units.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,3 @@ pytest
 pytest-mock
 pytest-xdist
 pyyaml
-
-# requirement for maven_artifact
-semantic_version