diff --git a/news/requirements.txt b/news/requirements.txt
index 2656a4bd16de..cb6cc5528b51 100644
--- a/news/requirements.txt
+++ b/news/requirements.txt
@@ -8,10 +8,9 @@ attrs==19.3.0             # via pytest
 docopt==0.6.2             # via -r news/requirements.in
 iniconfig==1.0.1          # via pytest
 more-itertools==8.0.0     # via pytest
-packaging==20.4           # via pytest
+packaging==20.7           # via pytest
 pluggy==0.13.1            # via pytest
 py==1.9.0                 # via pytest
 pyparsing==2.4.5          # via packaging
 pytest==6.0.1             # via -r news/requirements.in
-six==1.13.0               # via packaging
 toml==0.10.1              # via pytest