diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9d324a974..cac4c8ef2 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ numpy>=1.22.2
 # esgf-compute-api (cwt) needs oauthlib but doesn't add it in their requirements
 oauthlib
 owslib==0.29.3
+PasteDeploy>=3.1.0; python_version >= "3.12"
 pint
 psutil
 # FIXME: pymongo>=4 breaks with kombu corresponding to pinned Celery
@@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ pyramid>=1.7.3
 pyramid_beaker>=0.8
 # see https://github.com/sontek/pyramid_celery/pull/102 to fix Python 3.12 support and other improvements
 #pyramid_celery>=4.0.0   # required for celery>=5
-git+https://github.com/crim-ca/pyramid_celery/tree/5.0.0a#egg=pyramid_celery
+pyramid_celery @ git+https://github.com/crim-ca/pyramid_celery.git@5.0.0a
 pyramid_mako
 python-dateutil
 pyramid_rewrite