From df3a58eb60ecc2777464e75d760522dbb7eca36b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mehrdad Afshari <mmx@google.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 16:53:56 -0700
Subject: Remove superfluous dependency on the protobuf package

---
 setup.py | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 67c36a9324..99d1a1c504 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -239,9 +239,6 @@ PACKAGE_DIRECTORIES = {
 
 INSTALL_REQUIRES = (
     'six>=1.5.2',
-    # TODO(atash): eventually split the grpcio package into a metapackage
-    # depending on protobuf and the runtime component (independent of protobuf)
-    'protobuf>=3.5.0.post1',
 )
 
 if not PY3:
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