diff --git a/Pipfile b/Pipfile
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--- a/Pipfile
+++ /dev/null
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diff --git a/Pipfile.lock b/Pipfile.lock
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index 3321bf706..000000000
--- a/Pipfile.lock
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,322 +0,0 @@
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-                "sha256:fbf649bc77510ef2521cf797700b96167bb77838c40780da7ea3edd8b78044d1"
-            ],
-            "version": "==6.4.post2"
-        }
-    },
-    "develop": {}
-}
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 17a774e07..93ae45f64 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 Django>=3.2,<5
 python-memcached==1.58
 txAMQP==0.8
-django-tagging==0.5.0
+django-tagging==0.4.6
 gunicorn
 pytz
 pyparsing>=2.3.0
@@ -49,4 +49,3 @@ git+https://github.com/graphite-project/whisper.git#egg=whisper
 whitenoise==4.1.4
 urllib3
 six
-importlib_metadata
diff --git a/webapp/graphite/events/models.py b/webapp/graphite/events/models.py
index cf37b777f..b00901ef9 100644
--- a/webapp/graphite/events/models.py
+++ b/webapp/graphite/events/models.py
@@ -7,10 +7,6 @@
 import six
 django.utils.encoding.python_2_unicode_compatible = six.python_2_unicode_compatible
 django.utils.six = six
-try:
-    django.utils.encoding.smart_text = django.utils.encoding.smart_str
-except ImportError:
-    pass
 from tagging.models import Tag  # noqa: E402
 
 from graphite.events.compat import ModelTaggedItemManager  # noqa: E402