diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-app.yml b/.github/workflows/python-app.yml
index 474c08d..0db4cff 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/python-app.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-app.yml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Build docs with sphinx
       if: "matrix.python-version == '3.8'"
       run: |
-        pip install -U sphinx sphinx_rtd_theme
+        pip install -r docs/requirements.txt
         sphinx-build -W -b html docs docs/_build/html
     - name: Build packages
       if: "matrix.python-version == '3.8'"
diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
index cc7c58b..ab3f3dd 100644
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements.txt
@@ -1,27 +1,2 @@
-# What we want
-Sphinx==6.2.1
-
-# What we get
-alabaster==0.7.13
-Babel==2.12.1
-certifi==2023.7.22
-charset-normalizer==3.2.0
-docutils==0.19
-idna==3.4
-imagesize==1.4.1
-importlib-metadata==6.8.0
-Jinja2==3.1.3
-MarkupSafe==2.1.3
-packaging==23.1
-Pygments==2.16.1
-pytz==2023.3
-requests==2.31.0
-snowballstemmer==2.2.0
-sphinxcontrib-applehelp==1.0.4
-sphinxcontrib-devhelp==1.0.2
-sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp==2.0.1
-sphinxcontrib-jsmath==1.0.1
-sphinxcontrib-qthelp==1.0.3
-sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml==1.1.5
-urllib3==2.0.7
-zipp==3.16.2
+Sphinx
+sphinx_rtd_theme
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2e3d8e8..e45ef2b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -15,11 +15,14 @@
 
 description = "Pure Python reader/writer for Dan J. Berstein's CDB format."
 
+with open('README.rst', 'rt') as f:
+    long_description = f.read()
+
 setup(
     author='David Wilson',
     author_email='dw@botanicus.net',
     description=description,
-    long_description=description,
+    long_description=long_description,
     long_description_content_type='text/x-rst',
     download_url='https://github.com/dw/python-pure-cdb',
     keywords='cdb file format appengine database db',