diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9326becb..4c3765f0 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 *.sublime-*
 venv-*/
 pyvenv.cfg
+tasks.py
 
 # Package building
 *.egg-info/
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 56deb399..98f557c8 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ recursive-exclude .github *
 recursive-include ocrmypdf/data *
 recursive-include share *
 include *.py
+exclude tasks.py
 
 # code
 recursive-include ocrmypdf *.py
diff --git a/tasks.py b/tasks.py
deleted file mode 100644
index a2b0e096..00000000
--- a/tasks.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,111 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# © 2016 James R. Barlow: github.com/jbarlow83
-# Release sanity checking
-
-import argparse
-from subprocess import run, PIPE, DEVNULL, STDOUT, CalledProcessError
-from git import Repo, Remote, PushInfo
-import logging
-import re
-import sys
-import os
-
-
-logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
-
-REMOTE_ERROR_FLAGS = \
-    PushInfo.REJECTED | PushInfo.NO_MATCH | PushInfo.REMOTE_REJECTED | \
-    PushInfo.REMOTE_FAILURE | PushInfo.DELETED | PushInfo.ERROR
-
-
-def test_repo(repo):
-    assert not repo.is_dirty(), "Repository is dirty"
-    if repo.untracked_files:
-        logging.warning('Some files are untracked:')
-        logging.warning('\n' + '\n'.join(repo.untracked_files))
-    assert repo.active_branch.name == 'master', 'Not on branch master'
-
-
-def travis(args):
-    repo = Repo('.')
-    test_repo(repo)
-
-    git_describe = repo.git.describe()
-
-    try:
-        env = os.environ.copy()
-        env['SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION'] = git_describe
-        proc = run(['check-manifest'], check=True, universal_newlines=True, stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT, env=env)
-        logging.info(proc.stdout)
-    except CalledProcessError as e:
-        logging.error('MANIFEST.in error')
-        logging.error(e.stdout)
-        sys.exit(1)
-
-    run(['python3', 'setup.py', 'build'], check=True)
-
-    origin = Remote(repo, 'jbarlow')
-    result = origin.push(refspec='master:master')[0]
-
-    if result.flags & REMOTE_ERROR_FLAGS:
-        logging.error(result.summary)
-        sys.exit(1)
-    else:
-        logging.info(result.summary)
-
-    logging.info("Pushed to Travis CI")
-    logging.info("If this passes, git tag and release")
-
-
-def release(args):
-    repo = Repo('.')
-    test_repo(repo)
-
-    git_describe = repo.git.describe()
-
-    assert git_describe.startswith('v') and not '-' in git_describe and not '+ng' in git_describe, \
-        "Not tagged properly for release: " + git_describe
-
-    plain_version = git_describe[1:]  # without 'v' prefix
-
-    with open('RELEASE_NOTES.rst') as f:
-        notes = f.read()
-        assert plain_version in notes, "Version not mentioned in release notes"
-
-    proc = run(['python3', 'setup.py', 'sdist', 'bdist_wheel'], universal_newlines=True, check=True, stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT)
-    logging.info(proc.stdout)
-
-
-    origin = Remote(repo, 'jbarlow')
-    result = origin.push(refspec='master:master', tags=True)[0]
-    if result.flags & REMOTE_ERROR_FLAGS:
-        logging.error(result.summary)
-        sys.exit(1)
-    else:
-        logging.info(result.summary)
-
-    run(['twine', 'upload', '-r', 'pypitest',
-        'dist/ocrmypdf-{}.tar.gz'.format(plain_version),
-        'dist/ocrmypdf-{}-py34-none-any.whl'.format(plain_version)], check=True, universal_newlines=True, stdout=PIPE)
-
-
-parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="ocrmypdf release tasks")
-subparsers = parser.add_subparsers()
-
-push_travis = subparsers.add_parser(
-    'push-travis', description="Push master to travis for testing")
-push_travis.set_defaults(func=travis)
-
-release_parser = subparsers.add_parser(
-    'release', description="Release to PyPI etc")
-release_parser.set_defaults(func=release)
-
-
-def main():
-    args = parser.parse_args()
-    args.func(args)
-
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    main()