diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d82f5bc0d..2bfb74acd 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,43 +1,45 @@
-__pycache__/
-*.py[cod]
-*.out
+# Build outputs
 /build/
 /dist*/
-/tmp/
+*.egg-info/
+/.eggs/
 src/spdx_tools/spdx/parser/tagvalue/parsetab.py
-/.cache/
 
+# Python cache
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]
+*.out
+
+# Virtual environments
+.python-version
 .tox
 venv*
-
-# virtualenv
 /bin
+/include
+/Include
 /lib
 /Lib
 /local
 /local/
-/.eggs/
-*.egg-info/
-/Include
-/include
-/pip-selfcheck.json
-.Python
 /share/
 
 # IDEs
+.idea
 .project
 .pydevproject
-.idea
-org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs
 .vscode
-.pytest_cache
-
-# Installer logs
-pip-log.txt
+org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs
 
-# Unit test / coverage reports
+# Testing and type checking
 .cache
 .coverage
 .coverage.*
-nosetests.xml
+.mypy_cache
+.pytest_cache
 htmlcov
+
+# OS temporary files
+*.*~
+._*
+.DS_Store
+/tmp/
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index bd749b0cf..4b17602d6 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,16 +1 @@
-graft examples
-graft src
-graft tests
-
 prune src/spdx_tools.egg-info
-
-include .gitignore
-include README.md
-include CHANGELOG.md
-include CONTRIBUTING.md
-include DOCUMENTATION.md
-include LICENSE
-include setup.py
-include pyproject.toml
-
-global-exclude *.py[co] __pycache__ *.*~ .DS_Store .pytest_cache .mypy_cache