diff --git a/REUSE.toml b/REUSE.toml
index d5f1da95..8e8f4ca1 100644
--- a/REUSE.toml
+++ b/REUSE.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ SPDX-PackageSupplier = "Florian Müllner <fmuellner@gnome.org>"
 SPDX-PackageDownloadLocation = "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell-extensions"
 
 [[annotations]]
-path = ["NEWS", "README.md", "HACKING.md", "data/HACKING"]
+path = ["NEWS", "README.md", "HACKING.md"]
 SPDX-FileCopyrightText = "No rights reserved"
 SPDX-License-Identifier = "CC0-1.0"
 
diff --git a/data/HACKING b/data/HACKING
deleted file mode 100644
index 8e053392..00000000
--- a/data/HACKING
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-To update the gnome-shell-sass submodule to latest upstream commit:
-git submodule update --rebase