diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 62b2cf80..54175ddb 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -31,22 +31,6 @@ def get_packages(package):
             if os.path.exists(os.path.join(dirpath, '__init__.py'))]
 
 
-def get_package_data(package):
-    """
-    Return all files under the root package, that are not in a
-    package themselves.
-    """
-    walk = [(dirpath.replace(package + os.sep, '', 1), filenames)
-            for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(package)
-            if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(dirpath, '__init__.py'))]
-
-    filepaths = []
-    for base, filenames in walk:
-        filepaths.extend([os.path.join(base, filename)
-                          for filename in filenames])
-    return {package: filepaths}
-
-
 if sys.argv[-1] == 'publish':
     if os.system("pip freeze | grep wheel"):
         print("wheel not installed.\nUse `pip install wheel`.\nExiting.")
@@ -72,7 +56,7 @@ setup(
     author='Tom Christie',
     author_email='tom@tomchristie.com',  # SEE NOTE BELOW (*)
     packages=get_packages("mkdocs"),
-    package_data=get_package_data("mkdocs"),
+    include_package_data=True,
     install_requires=[
         'click>=4.0',
         'Jinja2>=2.7.1',
@@ -108,7 +92,7 @@ setup(
         'Topic :: Documentation',
         'Topic :: Text Processing',
     ],
-    zip_safe=False
+    zip_safe=False,
 )
 
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