diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python-lxml.inc b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python-lxml.inc
index 1f7e5abe8b..5dc95e5026 100644
--- a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python-lxml.inc
+++ b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python-lxml.inc
@@ -45,10 +45,6 @@ DEBUG_OPTIMIZATION_append_mipsel = " -O"
 BUILD_OPTIMIZATION_remove_mipsel = " -Og"
 BUILD_OPTIMIZATION_append_mipsel = " -O"
 
-do_configure_prepend() {
-    sed -i -e 's/--version/--modversion/' ${B}/setupinfo.py
-}
-
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
 
 RDEPENDS_${PN} += "libxml2 libxslt ${PYTHON_PN}-compression"