diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0e40a324..e24e3f98 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -81,6 +81,9 @@ requires = [
     # TODO: remove once their bug is fixed?  idk what this is about yet...
     'deform<2.0.15',                    # 2.0.14
 
+    # TODO: cornice<5 requires pyramid<2 (see above)
+    'pyramid<2',                        # 1.3b2                 1.10.8
+
     'colander',                         # 1.7.0
     'ColanderAlchemy',                  # 0.3.3
     'humanize',                         # 0.5.1
@@ -91,7 +94,6 @@ requires = [
     'paginate_sqlalchemy',              # 0.2.0
     'passlib',                          # 1.7.1
     'Pillow',                           # 5.3.0
-    'pyramid',                          # 1.3b2
     'pyramid_beaker>=0.6',              #                       0.6.1
     'pyramid_deform',                   # 0.2
     'pyramid_exclog',                   # 0.6