diff --git a/lucene/test-framework/src/java/module-info.java b/lucene/test-framework/src/java/module-info.java
index a6971845608..3e6311bc697 100644
--- a/lucene/test-framework/src/java/module-info.java
+++ b/lucene/test-framework/src/java/module-info.java
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@
 /** Lucene test framework. */
 @SuppressWarnings({"module", "requires-automatic", "requires-transitive-automatic"})
 module org.apache.lucene.test_framework {
-  uses org.apache.lucene.codecs.KnnVectorsFormat;
-
   requires org.apache.lucene.core;
   requires org.apache.lucene.codecs;
   requires transitive junit;