remove bandaid

Author: sjanssen2

qiita_files/util.py

@@ -7,19 +7,10 @@
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 from contextlib import contextmanager
-from packaging import version
 
 import h5py
 
 
-# Setting h5py.default_file_mode is deprecated.
-# 'r' (read-only) is the default from h5py 3.0.
-if version.Version(h5py.__version__) <= version.Version("3.0"):
-    # not present in all 2.x series
-    if hasattr(h5py.get_config(), 'default_file_mode'):
-        h5py.get_config().default_file_mode = 'r'
-
-
 def _is_string_or_bytes(s):
     """Returns True if input argument is string (unicode or not) or bytes.
     """

setup.py

@@ -43,6 +43,6 @@
                 'qiita_files/format',
                 'qiita_files/parse'],
       extras_require={'test': ["nose >= 0.10.1", "pep8"]},
-      install_requires=['numpy', 'h5py', 'joblib', 'packaging'],
+      install_requires=['numpy', 'h5py', 'joblib'],
       classifiers=classifiers
       )