diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index f7a68b664..f5cde59e8 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ pytest-asyncio==0.10.0
 pytest-cov==2.8.1
 pytest-mock==1.11.1
 pytest-random-order==1.0.4
-systemd==0.16.1; sys_platform != 'win32'
 
 # Convert jupyter notebooks to markdown documents
 nbconvert==5.6.0
diff --git a/tests/test_configuration.py b/tests/test_configuration.py
index 9601a5b50..5d05a1e68 100644
--- a/tests/test_configuration.py
+++ b/tests/test_configuration.py
@@ -605,6 +605,7 @@ def test_set_loggers() -> None:
     assert logging.getLogger('telegram').level is logging.INFO
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skipif(sys.platform == "win32", reason="does not run on windows")
 def test_set_loggers_syslog(mocker):
     logger = logging.getLogger()
     orig_handlers = logger.handlers
@@ -622,7 +623,7 @@ def test_set_loggers_syslog(mocker):
     logger.handlers = orig_handlers
 
 
-@pytest.mark.skipif(sys.platform == "win32", reason="does not run on windows")
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason="systemd is not installed on every system, so we're not testing this.")
 def test_set_loggers_journald(mocker):
     logger = logging.getLogger()
     orig_handlers = logger.handlers