diff --git a/roles/ensure-babel/README.rst b/roles/ensure-babel/README.rst
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-Ensure babel is installed
-
-**Role Variables**
-
-.. zuul:rolevar:: constraints_file
-
-   Optional path to a pip constraints file for installing python libraries.
diff --git a/roles/ensure-babel/tasks/main.yaml b/roles/ensure-babel/tasks/main.yaml
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-- name: Install gettext package
-  package:
-    name: gettext
-    state: present
-  become: yes
-
-- name: Check to see if the constraints file exists
-  stat:
-    path: "{{ constraints_file|default('missing') }}"
-    get_checksum: false
-    get_mime: false
-    get_md5: false
-  register: stat_results
-  when: constraints_file is defined
-
-- name: Record file location
-  set_fact:
-    upper_constraints: "-c {{ constraints_file }}"
-  when: not stat_results|skipped and stat_results.stat.exists
-
-- name: Install babel
-  pip:
-    name:
-      - pbr
-      - Babel
-      - lxml
-      - requests
-      # Install subunit for the subunit output stream for
-      # healthcheck.openstack.org.
-      # TODO(mordred) Does this need to be os-testr or can it just be subunit?
-      - os-testr
-    extra_args: "--user {{ upper_constraints|default('') }}"
diff --git a/roles/ensure-reno/README.rst b/roles/ensure-reno/README.rst
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-Ensure reno is installed
-
-**Role Variables**
-
-.. zuul:rolevar:: constraints_file
-
-   Optional path to a pip constraints file for installing python libraries.
-
-.. zuul:rolevar:: zuul_work_dir
-   :default: {{ zuul.project.src_dir }}
-
-   Directory to operate in. Needed only for a little while until we have
-   projects migrated to not need to be installed just to generate
-   release notes.
diff --git a/roles/ensure-reno/defaults/main.yaml b/roles/ensure-reno/defaults/main.yaml
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-zuul_work_dir: "{{ zuul.project.src_dir }}"
diff --git a/roles/ensure-reno/tasks/main.yaml b/roles/ensure-reno/tasks/main.yaml
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-- name: Install gettext package
-  package:
-    name: gettext
-    state: present
-  become: yes
-
-- name: Check to see if the constraints file exists
-  stat:
-    path: "{{ constraints_file|default('missing') }}"
-    get_checksum: false
-    get_mime: false
-    get_md5: false
-  register: stat_results
-  when: constraints_file is defined
-
-- name: Record file location
-  set_fact:
-    upper_constraints: "-c {{ constraints_file }}"
-  when: not stat_results|skipped and stat_results.stat.exists
-
-- name: Install reno
-  pip:
-    name:
-      - sphinx
-      - openstackdocstheme
-      - reno
-    extra_args: "--user {{ upper_constraints|default('') }}"
-
-- name: Install extra requirements if needed
-  shell:
-    chdir: '{{ zuul_work_dir }}'
-    executable: /bin/bash
-    cmd: |
-      # TODO(jaegerandi): Remove once all repos are fixed.
-      # Try installing current repo in case it needs to be available for
-      # example for version number calculation. Ignore any failures here.
-      if [ -f setup.cfg ] ; then
-          pip install --user . || true
-      fi