diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 72b612dbdecd7..9a3e3cdb587f2 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -863,7 +863,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
  "sha2",
- "static_assertions",
  "thiserror",
  "url",
 ]
@@ -3452,12 +3451,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "winapi",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "static_assertions"
-version = "1.1.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a2eb9349b6444b326872e140eb1cf5e7c522154d69e7a0ffb0fb81c06b37543f"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "strsim"
 version = "0.10.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 3e2e2ea16b8a4..95100d360134f 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -74,7 +74,6 @@ seahash = { version = "4.1.0" }
 serde = { version = "1.0.194" }
 serde_json = { version = "1.0.111" }
 sha2 = { version = "0.10.8" }
-static_assertions = { version = "1.1.0" }
 tar = { version = "0.4.40" }
 target-lexicon = { version = "0.12.13" }
 tempfile = { version = "3.9.0" }
diff --git a/crates/distribution-types/Cargo.toml b/crates/distribution-types/Cargo.toml
index bc89cbd66ca4f..4b87d2665d82e 100644
--- a/crates/distribution-types/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/distribution-types/Cargo.toml
@@ -32,6 +32,5 @@ rustc-hash = { workspace = true }
 serde = { workspace = true, features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = { workspace = true }
 sha2 = { workspace = true }
-static_assertions = { workspace = true }
 thiserror = { workspace = true }
 url = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/distribution-types/src/lib.rs b/crates/distribution-types/src/lib.rs
index 0abf7f19e42f2..aa2e85337252f 100644
--- a/crates/distribution-types/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/distribution-types/src/lib.rs
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 use std::str::FromStr;
 
 use anyhow::Result;
-use static_assertions::assert_eq_size;
 use url::Url;
 
 use distribution_filename::{DistFilename, SourceDistFilename, WheelFilename};
@@ -202,10 +201,6 @@ pub struct PathSourceDist {
     pub editable: bool,
 }
 
-assert_eq_size!(Dist, [u8; 240]);
-assert_eq_size!(BuiltDist, [u8; 240]);
-assert_eq_size!(SourceDist, [u8; 168]);
-
 impl Dist {
     /// Create a [`Dist`] for a registry-based distribution.
     pub fn from_registry(filename: DistFilename, file: File, index: IndexUrl) -> Self {
@@ -870,3 +865,16 @@ impl Identifier for Dist {
         }
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod test {
+    use crate::{BuiltDist, Dist, SourceDist};
+
+    /// Ensure that we don't accidentally grow the `Dist` sizes.
+    #[test]
+    fn dist_size() {
+        assert!(std::mem::size_of::<Dist>() <= 240);
+        assert!(std::mem::size_of::<BuiltDist>() <= 240);
+        assert!(std::mem::size_of::<SourceDist>() <= 168);
+    }
+}