diff --git a/metadata-ingestion/pyproject.toml b/metadata-ingestion/pyproject.toml
index f30060c5ccdbdf..3d44767e176379 100644
--- a/metadata-ingestion/pyproject.toml
+++ b/metadata-ingestion/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [build-system]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
-requires = ["setuptools>=63.0.0", "wheel"]
+requires = ["setuptools >= 71.1", "wheel"]
 
 [tool.ruff.lint.isort]
 section-order = ["future", "patch", "standard-library", "third-party", "first-party", "local-folder"]
diff --git a/metadata-ingestion/setup.py b/metadata-ingestion/setup.py
index d55960aa1750c2..fbeba1e510b645 100644
--- a/metadata-ingestion/setup.py
+++ b/metadata-ingestion/setup.py
@@ -555,7 +555,6 @@
 
 mypy_stubs = {
     "types-dataclasses",
-    "types-setuptools",
     "types-six",
     "types-python-dateutil",
     # We need to avoid 2.31.0.5 and 2.31.0.4 due to
diff --git a/metadata-ingestion/tests/unit/test_packaging.py b/metadata-ingestion/tests/unit/test_packaging.py
index f9a3ae9562d3eb..56e877a03deaee 100644
--- a/metadata-ingestion/tests/unit/test_packaging.py
+++ b/metadata-ingestion/tests/unit/test_packaging.py
@@ -8,6 +8,6 @@
 )
 def test_datahub_version():
     # Simply importing pkg_resources checks for unsatisfied dependencies.
-    import pkg_resources
+    import pkg_resources  # type: ignore[import-untyped]
 
     assert pkg_resources.get_distribution(datahub_version.__package_name__).version