diff --git a/glance/tests/unit/common/test_wsgi.py b/glance/tests/unit/common/test_wsgi.py
index 4cf7e1749e..1c22477153 100644
--- a/glance/tests/unit/common/test_wsgi.py
+++ b/glance/tests/unit/common/test_wsgi.py
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ import os
 import socket
 from unittest import mock
 
-from babel import localedata
 import eventlet.patcher
 import fixtures
 from oslo_concurrency import processutils
@@ -45,13 +44,6 @@ class RequestTest(test_utils.BaseTestCase):
         if all_locales is None:
             all_locales = []
 
-        # Override localedata.locale_identifiers to return some locales.
-        def returns_some_locales(*args, **kwargs):
-            return all_locales
-
-        self.mock_object(localedata, 'locale_identifiers',
-                         returns_some_locales)
-
         # Override gettext.find to return other than None for some languages.
         def fake_gettext_find(lang_id, *args, **kwargs):
             found_ret = '/glance/%s/LC_MESSAGES/glance.mo' % lang_id
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index f47cd69602..4860456e70 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@
 # Hacking already pins down pep8, pyflakes and flake8
 hacking>=3.0.1,<3.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 
-# For translations processing
-Babel!=2.4.0,>=2.3.4 # BSD
-
 # Needed for testing
 coverage!=4.4,>=4.0 # Apache-2.0
 ddt>=1.0.1 # MIT