diff --git a/.coveragerc b/.coveragerc
deleted file mode 100644
index 42b8e78f..00000000
--- a/.coveragerc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-[paths]
-source =
-	src
-	*/site-packages
-
-[run]
-branch = true
-parallel = true
-concurrency =
-	thread
-	multiprocessing
-source =
-	src/ocrmypdf
-
-[report]
-exclude_lines =
-	pragma: no cover
-	def __repr__
-	raise AssertionError
-	raise NotImplementedError
-	if 0:
-	if False:
-	if __name__ == .__main__.:
-	if TYPE_CHECKING:
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 603daa71..44ed90c5 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ filterwarnings =
 	ignore:.*XMLParser.*:DeprecationWarning
 markers =
 	slow
+addopts =
+	-n auto
 
 [isort]
 multi_line_output=3
@@ -27,3 +29,30 @@ known_third_party = PIL,_cffi_backend,cffi,flask,img2pdf,pdfminer,pikepdf,pkg_re
 
 [metadata]
 license_file = LICENSE
+
+[coverage:paths]
+source =
+	src/
+
+[coverage:run]
+branch = true
+parallel = true
+concurrency = multiprocessing
+source =
+	src/ocrmypdf
+
+[coverage:report]
+# Regexes for lines to exclude from consideration
+exclude_lines =
+    # Have to re-enable the standard pragma
+    pragma: no cover
+
+    # Don't complain if tests don't hit defensive assertion code:
+    raise AssertionError
+    raise NotImplementedError
+
+    # Don't complain if non-runnable code isn't run:
+    if 0:
+	if False:
+    if __name__ == .__main__.:
+	if TYPE_CHECKING:
diff --git a/src/ocrmypdf/_sync.py b/src/ocrmypdf/_sync.py
index a4839aea..83de4150 100644
--- a/src/ocrmypdf/_sync.py
+++ b/src/ocrmypdf/_sync.py
@@ -338,6 +338,8 @@ def run_pipeline(options, *, plugin_manager, api=False):
         and not api
     ):
         # Debug log for command line interface only with verbose output
+        # See https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/5502 for why we skip this
+        # when pytest is running
         debug_log_handler = configure_debug_logging(Path(work_folder) / "debug.log")
 
     pikepdf_enable_mmap()
diff --git a/src/ocrmypdf/optimize.py b/src/ocrmypdf/optimize.py
index 9fd80db7..c097e32e 100644
--- a/src/ocrmypdf/optimize.py
+++ b/src/ocrmypdf/optimize.py
@@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ def transcode_pngs(
 
 
 @deprecated
-def rewrite_png_as_g4(pike: Pdf, im_obj: Object, compdata) -> None:
+def rewrite_png_as_g4(pike: Pdf, im_obj: Object, compdata) -> None:  # pragma: no cover
     im_obj.BitsPerComponent = 1
     im_obj.Width = compdata.w
     im_obj.Height = compdata.h
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ def rewrite_png_as_g4(pike: Pdf, im_obj: Object, compdata) -> None:
 
 
 @deprecated
-def rewrite_png(pike: Pdf, im_obj: Object, compdata) -> None:
+def rewrite_png(pike: Pdf, im_obj: Object, compdata) -> None:  # pragma: no cover
     # When a PNG is inserted into a PDF, we more or less copy the IDAT section from
     # the PDF and transfer the rest of the PNG headers to PDF image metadata.
     # One thing we have to do is tell the PDF reader whether a predictor was used
diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
index 7619769f..70741548 100644
--- a/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/conftest.py
@@ -137,16 +137,7 @@ def run_ocrmypdf(input_file, output_file, *args, text=True):
         + [str(input_file), str(output_file)]
     )
 
-    # Tell subprocess where to find coverage.py configuration
-    # This has no unless except when coverage is running
-    # Details: https://coverage.readthedocs.io/en/coverage-5.0/subprocess.html
-    coverage_rc = Path(__file__).parent.parent / '.coveragerc'
     env = os.environ.copy()
-    if coverage_rc.exists():
-        env['COVERAGE_PROCESS_START'] = os.fspath(coverage_rc)
-    elif not running_in_docker():
-        assert False, "could not find .coveragerc"
-
     p = run(
         p_args,
         stdout=PIPE,