diff --git a/requirements/requirements_setup_requires.txt b/requirements/requirements_setup_requires.txt
index cdd98344ba..8ecad1214f 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements_setup_requires.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements_setup_requires.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ backports.functools_lru_cache
 more-itertools==5.0.0
 poetry==0.12.17
 functools32<4.0.0,>=3.2.3; python_version >= "2.7" and python_version < "2.8"
-flit; python_version >= "3.5"
+flit==2.2.0; python_version >= "3.5"
+zipp==0.6.0  # indirect dependency, higher versions will require setuptools>=42
 twine; python_version >= "3.6"
 incremental>=16.10.1; python_version >= "3.6"
 lxml>=3.0; python_version >= "3.6"