diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 56e6917..5a5a649 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+.[validation]
 -r requirements/heroku.txt
diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index 4951db1..14a1855 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -6,3 +6,7 @@ inflection>=0.3.1
 future>=0.16.0
 six>=1.11.0
 uritemplate>=3.0.0
+
+djangorestframework>=3.7.0
+Django>=1.11.7,<2.0; python_version <= "2.7"
+Django>=1.11.7; python_version >= "3.4"
diff --git a/requirements/heroku.txt b/requirements/heroku.txt
index 3b41dc2..7b7453a 100644
--- a/requirements/heroku.txt
+++ b/requirements/heroku.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 # requirements necessary when deploying the test project to heroku
-.[validation]
-Django>=1.11.7,<2.0; python_version <= "2.7"
-Django>=1.11.7; python_version >= "3.4"
-
 -r testproj.txt
 psycopg2>=2.7.3
 gunicorn>=19.7.1
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2ecda55..f462f5b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ def read_req(req_file):
 with io.open('README.rst', encoding='utf-8') as readme:
     description = readme.read()
 
-requirements = ['djangorestframework>=3.7.0'] + read_req('base.txt')
+requirements = read_req('base.txt')
 requirements_setup = read_req('setup.txt')
 requirements_validation = read_req('validation.txt')
 
diff --git a/testproj/requirements.txt b/testproj/requirements.txt
index c1ff544..67cd530 100644
--- a/testproj/requirements.txt
+++ b/testproj/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
 ..[validation]
-Django>=1.11.7,<2.0; python_version <= "2.7"
-Django>=1.11.7; python_version >= "3.4"
 -r ../requirements/testproj.txt