diff --git a/ci/docker-linkcheck.sh b/ci/docker-linkcheck.sh
index 29c1bdd..7566a6a 100644
--- a/ci/docker-linkcheck.sh
+++ b/ci/docker-linkcheck.sh
@@ -11,6 +11,6 @@ image="python:3-alpine"
 # turns out that combining -i with --init solves that problem
 # see https://stackoverflow.com/a/60812082
 docker run --rm -i -v "$this_dir"/..:/ws -w /ws --init "$image" sh <<\EOF
-    pip install -r requirements.txt
+    pip install -r ci/linkcheck-requirements.txt
     python linkcheck.py
 EOF
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/ci/linkcheck-requirements.txt
similarity index 80%
rename from requirements.txt
rename to ci/linkcheck-requirements.txt
index 457a187..156c394 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/ci/linkcheck-requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-App
 Requests>=2.19.1