diff --git a/.config/docs-requirements.txt b/.config/docs-requirements.txt
index 77dfef058a..d6bef78460 100644
--- a/.config/docs-requirements.txt
+++ b/.config/docs-requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-mkdocs-ansible[lock]>=0.2.0
+mkdocs-ansible>=0.2.0  # do not use lock extra because it would break dependabot updates
 pipdeptree>=2.7.1
diff --git a/.config/requirements.txt b/.config/requirements.txt
index 9c20f1c570..e511dbd5b6 100644
--- a/.config/requirements.txt
+++ b/.config/requirements.txt
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ ghp-import==2.1.0
 griffe==0.36.4
 htmlmin2==0.1.13
 idna==3.4
-importlib-metadata==6.8.0
 iniconfig==2.0.0
 isort==5.12.0
 jinja2==3.1.2
@@ -106,7 +105,6 @@ watchdog==3.0.0
 wcmatch==8.5
 webencodings==0.5.1
 yamllint==1.32.0
-zipp==3.17.0
 
 # The following packages are considered to be unsafe in a requirements file:
 # resolvelib