diff --git a/setup.cfg b/.flake8
similarity index 100%
rename from setup.cfg
rename to .flake8
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index ea5d36eca..d66ef65a4 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -38,5 +38,6 @@ exclude .travis.yml
 exclude codecov.yml
 exclude .pydocstylerc
 exclude misc/appveyor_install.py
+exclude .flake8
 
 global-exclude __pycache__ *.pyc *.pyo