diff --git a/extras/make_release.sh b/extras/make_release.sh
index 08730006c..0f8f3dbc3 100755
--- a/extras/make_release.sh
+++ b/extras/make_release.sh
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 hg purge --all
 
 # build packages
-version=$(python -c "import scrapy; print scrapy.__version__")
-python setup.py sdist
+#version=$(python -c "import scrapy; print scrapy.__version__")
+#python setup.py sdist
 # FIXME: bdist_wininst doesn't work on Unix (it doesn't include the data_files)
 #python setup.py bdist_wininst -t "Scrapy $version" -p "win32"