diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/128-remove_tests_sanity_requirements.yml b/changelogs/fragments/128-remove_tests_sanity_requirements.yml
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+---
+trivial:
+  - sanity tests - remove unnecessary requirements.txt file (https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/issues/43).
diff --git a/tests/sanity/requirements.txt b/tests/sanity/requirements.txt
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-packaging  # needed for update-bundled and changelog
-sphinx ; python_version >= '3.5' # docs build requires python 3+
-sphinx-notfound-page ; python_version >= '3.5' # docs build requires python 3+
-straight.plugin ; python_version >= '3.5' # needed for hacking/build-ansible.py which will host changelog generation and requires python 3+