diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ff8ef670..d0caebde 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ coverage.xml
 *.cover
 .hypothesis/
 .pytest_cache/
+artifacts/
 
 # Translations
 *.mo
diff --git a/src/pushsource/_impl/compat_attr.py b/src/pushsource/_impl/compat_attr.py
index ac8e7bcc..4cbdf428 100644
--- a/src/pushsource/_impl/compat_attr.py
+++ b/src/pushsource/_impl/compat_attr.py
@@ -1,18 +1,8 @@
 import attr
 
-# importlib.metadata is available for py3.8 and higher
-# previous versions get it from importlib_metadata installed
-# from importlib-metadata
-try:
-    from importlib.metadata import version
-except ImportError:  # pragma: no cover
-    from importlib_metadata import version
-
-
 # Wrappers for attr module to deal with some incompatibilities between versions
 
-
-ATTR_VERSION = tuple(int(x) for x in (version("attrs")).split(".")[0:2])
+ATTR_VERSION = tuple(int(x) for x in attr.__version__.split(".")[0:2])
 
 
 def s():
diff --git a/test-requirements.in b/test-requirements.in
index 62c7aa71..d1f9cf25 100644
--- a/test-requirements.in
+++ b/test-requirements.in
@@ -20,6 +20,5 @@ pyhamcrest
 sphinx
 alabaster
 pidiff
-importlib-resources
 bandit
 pytest-mock
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index e1883e10..cf547a18 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -464,10 +464,6 @@ importlib-metadata==8.7.0 \
     --hash=sha256:d13b81ad223b890aa16c5471f2ac3056cf76c5f10f82d6f9292f0b415f389000 \
     --hash=sha256:e5dd1551894c77868a30651cef00984d50e1002d06942a7101d34870c5f02afd
     # via sphinx
-importlib-resources==6.5.2 \
-    --hash=sha256:185f87adef5bcc288449d98fb4fba07cea78bc036455dd44c5fc4a2fe78fed2c \
-    --hash=sha256:789cfdc3ed28c78b67a06acb8126751ced69a3d5f79c095a98298cd8a760ccec
-    # via -r test-requirements.in
 iniconfig==2.1.0 \
     --hash=sha256:3abbd2e30b36733fee78f9c7f7308f2d0050e88f0087fd25c2645f63c773e1c7 \
     --hash=sha256:9deba5723312380e77435581c6bf4935c94cbfab9b1ed33ef8d238ea168eb760
@@ -1009,9 +1005,7 @@ virtualenv-api==2.1.18 \
 zipp==3.21.0 \
     --hash=sha256:2c9958f6430a2040341a52eb608ed6dd93ef4392e02ffe219417c1b28b5dd1f4 \
     --hash=sha256:ac1bbe05fd2991f160ebce24ffbac5f6d11d83dc90891255885223d42b3cd931
-    # via
-    #   importlib-metadata
-    #   importlib-resources
+    # via importlib-metadata
 
 # WARNING: The following packages were not pinned, but pip requires them to be
 # pinned when the requirements file includes hashes and the requirement is not
diff --git a/tests/test_compat_attr.py b/tests/test_compat_attr.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..086a39d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_compat_attr.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+from pushsource._impl import compat_attr
+
+from mock import patch
+
+
+@patch("attr.s")
+def test_attrs(attr_s, monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setattr(compat_attr, "ATTR_VERSION", (17, 4))
+    compat_attr.s()
+    attr_s.assert_called_once_with(frozen=True, slots=True)
+
+
+@patch("attr.s")
+def test_attrs_18_2(attr_s, monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setattr(compat_attr, "ATTR_VERSION", (18, 2))
+    compat_attr.s()
+    attr_s.assert_called_once_with(frozen=True, slots=True, kw_only=True)