diff --git a/packages/devel/file/package.mk b/packages/devel/file/package.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index f6ef7ba328..0000000000
--- a/packages/devel/file/package.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-# This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-# Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-# OpenELEC is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# OpenELEC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with OpenELEC. If not, see .
-################################################################################
-
-PKG_NAME="file"
-PKG_VERSION="5.19"
-PKG_REV="1"
-PKG_ARCH="any"
-PKG_LICENSE="BSD"
-PKG_SITE="http://www.darwinsys.com/file/"
-PKG_URL="ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="ccache:host"
-PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain zlib file:host"
-PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
-PKG_SECTION="devel"
-PKG_SHORTDESC="file: File type identification utility"
-PKG_LONGDESC="These are the sources to Darwin's file(1) utility and master magic(4) file, now maintained by Christos Zoulas. The file(1) utility is used to determine the types of various files."
-PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
-
-PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"
-
-PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_HOST="--enable-fsect-man5 --enable-static --disable-shared"
-PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="--enable-fsect-man5 --enable-static --disable-shared"
diff --git a/packages/devel/file/patches/file-fix-segfault-in-magic_close.patch b/packages/devel/file/patches/file-fix-segfault-in-magic_close.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 25b0f1bb21..0000000000
--- a/packages/devel/file/patches/file-fix-segfault-in-magic_close.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/src/apprentice.c b/src/apprentice.c
-index 961e83d..b7d500c 100644
---- a/src/apprentice.c
-+++ b/src/apprentice.c
-@@ -348,11 +348,9 @@ apprentice_1(struct magic_set *ms, const char *fn, int action)
- protected void
- file_ms_free(struct magic_set *ms)
- {
-- size_t i;
- if (ms == NULL)
- return;
-- for (i = 0; i < MAGIC_SETS; i++)
-- mlist_free(ms->mlist[i]);
-+ mlist_free(ms->mlist[0]);
- free(ms->o.pbuf);
- free(ms->o.buf);
- free(ms->c.li);
diff --git a/packages/devel/file/patches/file-zip.patch b/packages/devel/file/patches/file-zip.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index f16e3126e9..0000000000
--- a/packages/devel/file/patches/file-zip.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-From e990dc53f658cb67ec7b33c32e0bc24e65801792 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Christos Zoulas
-Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 15:04:15 +0000
-Subject: [PATCH] small archive
-
----
- magic/Magdir/archive | 5 ++++-
- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/magic/Magdir/archive b/magic/Magdir/archive
-index e84c8e3..5ad1ce3 100644
---- a/magic/Magdir/archive
-+++ b/magic/Magdir/archive
-@@ -654,6 +654,9 @@
- >>>>78 string -template Template
- !:mime application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.image-template
-
-+>26 byte x Zip archive data
-+
-+
- # StarView Metafile
- # From Pierre Ducroquet
- 0 string VCLMTF StarView MetaFile
---
-1.7.4.1
-
diff --git a/packages/lang/Python/package.mk b/packages/lang/Python/package.mk
index f41c2d209d..40015e320d 100644
--- a/packages/lang/Python/package.mk
+++ b/packages/lang/Python/package.mk
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ PKG_LICENSE="OSS"
PKG_SITE="http://www.python.org/"
PKG_URL="http://www.python.org/ftp/python/$PKG_VERSION/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="zlib:host"
-PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain Python:host sqlite expat zlib bzip2 libressl libffi file"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain Python:host sqlite expat zlib bzip2 libressl libffi"
PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
PKG_SECTION="lang"
PKG_SHORTDESC="python: The Python programming language"