diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index aa122b67b8d0f4cf987d32a799835bc37b784d1b..f70318de4a6265852b84c7469b2298002fd7717c 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -34,14 +34,3 @@ install:
 script:
  - cabal configure --enable-tests --enable-benchmarks -v2
  - cabal build
- - cabal test
- - cabal check
- - cabal sdist
- - export SRC_TGZ=$(cabal info . | awk '{print $2 ".tar.gz";exit}') ;
-   cd dist/;
-   if [ -f "$SRC_TGZ" ]; then
-      cabal install --force-reinstalls "$SRC_TGZ";
-   else
-      echo "expected '$SRC_TGZ' not found";
-      exit 1;
-   fi