diff --git a/tools/requirements.txt b/tools/requirements.txt
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-application-properties==0.8.2 ; python_version >= "3.8" and python_version < "4.0" \
-    --hash=sha256:a4fe684e4d95fc45054d3316acf763a7b0f29342ccea02eee09de53004f0139c \
-    --hash=sha256:e5e6918c8e29ab57175567d51dfa39c00a1d75b3205625559bb02250f50f0420
-columnar==1.4.1 ; python_version >= "3.8" and python_version < "4.0" \
-    --hash=sha256:8efb692a7e6ca07dcc8f4ea889960421331a5dffa8e5af81f0a67ad8ea1fc798 \
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-pymarkdownlnt==0.9.26 ; python_version >= "3.8" and python_version < "4.0" \
-    --hash=sha256:fa001135ec4d1414e8be774e6be48ff6cf632d687cb7ad7e446f5781ab89f64f \
-    --hash=sha256:fc2d8b50e4d3793ea671c82e9e252cfe8418a6f6156bf321c2d3c9a63f0eba47
-pyyaml==6.0.2 ; python_version >= "3.8" and python_version < "4.0" \
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-tomli==2.2.1 ; python_version >= "3.8" and python_version < "4.0" \
-    --hash=sha256:023aa114dd824ade0100497eb2318602af309e5a55595f76b626d6d9f3b7b0a6 \
-    --hash=sha256:02abe224de6ae62c19f090f68da4e27b10af2b93213d36cf44e6e1c5abd19fdd \
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-    --hash=sha256:f4039b9cbc3048b2416cc57ab3bda989a6fcf9b36cf8937f01a6e731b64f80d7
-toolz==1.0.0 ; python_version >= "3.8" and python_version < "4.0" \
-    --hash=sha256:292c8f1c4e7516bf9086f8850935c799a874039c8bcf959d47b600e4c44a6236 \
-    --hash=sha256:2c86e3d9a04798ac556793bced838816296a2f085017664e4995cb40a1047a02
-typing-extensions==4.12.2 ; python_version >= "3.8" and python_version < "4.0" \
-    --hash=sha256:04e5ca0351e0f3f85c6853954072df659d0d13fac324d0072316b67d7794700d \
-    --hash=sha256:1a7ead55c7e559dd4dee8856e3a88b41225abfe1ce8df57b7c13915fe121ffb8
-wcwidth==0.2.13 ; python_version >= "3.8" and python_version < "4.0" \
-    --hash=sha256:3da69048e4540d84af32131829ff948f1e022c1c6bdb8d6102117aac784f6859 \
-    --hash=sha256:72ea0c06399eb286d978fdedb6923a9eb47e1c486ce63e9b4e64fc18303972b5
diff --git a/tools/update_requirements.sh b/tools/update_requirements.sh
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-#!/bin/bash
-# When Dependabot updates poetry.lock and pyproject.toml it fails to
-# update the requirements.txt, which is what we actually use to pull
-# in our Python dependencies. So we need to run this to generate a
-# new requirements.txt from the updated files.
-if [ -f poetry.lock ]; then
-  rm poetry.lock
-fi
-poetry export --format requirements.txt --output requirements.txt
-# of course this assumes that poetry is installed, which is done by:
-## curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 -
-# see https://github.com/atsign-foundation/at_server/pull/1065 for
-# how this stuff got here in the first place