diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 78464c9aaedc8..d2b1b8cb887bc 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 include RELEASE.md
+include versioneer.py
 
 graft doc
 prune doc/build
@@ -54,9 +55,6 @@ global-exclude *.pxi
 # exclude the whole directory to avoid running related tests in sdist
 prune pandas/tests/io/parser/data
 
-include versioneer.py
-include pandas/_version.py
-include pandas/io/formats/templates/*.tpl
-
+# Selectively re-add *.cxx files that were excluded above
 graft pandas/_libs/src
 graft pandas/_libs/tslibs/src
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 34c9f56f06371..fdd6bdd9d579f 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -51,9 +51,6 @@ test =
     pytest>=6.0
     pytest-xdist>=1.31
 
-[options.package_data]
-* = templates/*, _libs/**/*.dll
-
 [build_ext]
 inplace = True