diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 2d850775..00000000
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-include CHANGELOG.md CITE.md AUTHORS.md
-include cherab/core/VERSION
-recursive-include cherab *.pyx *.pxd *.json *.cl *.npy *.obj
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ce56ed60..a4eabed0 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools", "wheel", "oldest-supported-numpy", "cython>=0.28", "raysect==0.8.1"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=62.3", "oldest-supported-numpy", "cython>=0.28", "raysect==0.8.1"]
 build-backend="setuptools.build_meta"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ba84e56e..58d28075 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-from setuptools import setup, find_packages, Extension
 from collections import defaultdict
 import sys
-import numpy
 import os
 import os.path as path
 from pathlib import Path
 import multiprocessing
+import numpy
+from setuptools import setup, find_packages, Extension
 from Cython.Build import cythonize
 
 multiprocessing.set_start_method('fork')
@@ -117,8 +117,12 @@
         "matplotlib",
         "raysect==0.8.1",
     ],
-    packages=find_packages(include=["cherab*"]),
-    include_package_data=True,
+    packages=find_packages(include=["cherab"]),
+    package_data={"": [
+        "**/*.pyx", "**/*.pxd",  # Needed to build Cython extensions.
+        "**/*.json", "**/*.cl", "**/*.npy", "**/*.obj",  # Supplementary data
+        "cherab/core/VERSION",  # Used by cherab.core to determine version at run time
+    ]},
     data_files=data_files,
     zip_safe=False,
     ext_modules=extensions,