diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index dac06ca2..2124911a 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
-[bdist_wheel]
-# the `universal` setting means that the project runs unmodified on both Python 2 and 3,
-# and doesn't use any C extensions to Python
-universal=1
-
 [options.extras_require]
 dev =
     flake8