diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-to-test-pypi.yml b/.github/workflows/publish-to-test-pypi.yml
index a1bb1d4ad..8b1978032 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-to-test-pypi.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-to-test-pypi.yml
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ jobs:
         sed -i 's/version="\([^"]*\)"/version="\1${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}"/' setup.py
         echo "Before requirements.txt modification:"
         cat requirements.txt
-        sed -i 's/llama-stack-client\([>=]\+\)"\([^"]*\)"/llama-stack-client=="\2${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}"/' requirements.txt
+        sed -i 's/llama-stack-client\([>=]\+\)\([^"]*\)/llama-stack-client==\2${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}/' requirements.txt
         echo "After requirements.txt modification:"
         cat requirements.txt
     - name: Set up Python