diff --git a/roles/ceph-iscsi-gw/tasks/non-container/prerequisites.yml b/roles/ceph-iscsi-gw/tasks/non-container/prerequisites.yml
index 0c5d505ff..80694f315 100644
--- a/roles/ceph-iscsi-gw/tasks/non-container/prerequisites.yml
+++ b/roles/ceph-iscsi-gw/tasks/non-container/prerequisites.yml
@@ -62,9 +62,7 @@
         state: "{{ (upgrade_ceph_packages|bool) | ternary('latest','present') }}"
       register: result
       until: result is succeeded
-      with_items:
-        - "{{ ceph_iscsi_pkgs }}"
-        - python-requests
+      with_items: "{{ ceph_iscsi_pkgs }}"
 
 - name: check the status of the target.service override
   stat: