diff --git a/packages/python/security/pyOpenSSL/build b/packages/python/security/pyOpenSSL/build
deleted file mode 100755
index ad41cf4261..0000000000
--- a/packages/python/security/pyOpenSSL/build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-. config/options $1
-
-export PYTHONXCPREFIX="$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr"
-export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/lib -L$SYSROOT_PREFIX/lib"
-
-cd $PKG_BUILD
-
-python setup.py build --cross-compile
-python setup.py install -O1 --skip-build --prefix /usr --root .install
-
-find .install -name "*.py" -exec rm -rf "{}" ";"
-find .install -name "*.pyo" -exec rm -rf "{}" ";"
-
-rm -rf .install/usr/bin
diff --git a/packages/python/security/pyOpenSSL/install b/packages/python/security/pyOpenSSL/install
deleted file mode 100755
index 73886a0890..0000000000
--- a/packages/python/security/pyOpenSSL/install
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-. config/options $1
-
-cp -PR $PKG_BUILD/.install/* $INSTALL
diff --git a/packages/python/security/pyOpenSSL/meta b/packages/python/security/pyOpenSSL/meta
deleted file mode 100644
index 90a71b33ae..0000000000
--- a/packages/python/security/pyOpenSSL/meta
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-PKG_NAME="pyOpenSSL"
-PKG_VERSION="0.11"
-PKG_REV="1"
-PKG_ARCH="any"
-PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"
-PKG_SITE="https://launchpad.net/pyopenssl"
-PKG_URL="http://launchpad.net/pyopenssl/main/$PKG_VERSION/+download/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS="Python distutilscross openssl"
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain Python distutilscross openssl"
-PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
-PKG_SECTION="python/security"
-PKG_SHORTDESC="pyOpenSSL: Python interface to the OpenSSL library"
-PKG_LONGDESC="Python interface to the OpenSSL library. Includes: SSL Context objects, SSL Connection objects, using Python sockets as transport layer. The Connection object wraps all the socket methods and can therefore be used interchangeably."
-PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
-
-PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"
diff --git a/packages/python/security/pyOpenSSL/patches/pyOpenSSL-0.11-setuptools.patch b/packages/python/security/pyOpenSSL/patches/pyOpenSSL-0.11-setuptools.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index b93a8d3126..0000000000
--- a/packages/python/security/pyOpenSSL/patches/pyOpenSSL-0.11-setuptools.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur pyOpenSSL-0.10/setup.py pyOpenSSL-0.10.patch/setup.py
---- pyOpenSSL-0.10/setup.py	2009-11-13 16:36:16.000000000 +0100
-+++ pyOpenSSL-0.10.patch/setup.py	2010-10-19 00:24:51.858811333 +0200
-@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
- distutils.log.set_verbosity(3)
- 
- import sys, os
--from distutils.core import Extension, setup
-+from setuptools import Extension, setup
- from distutils.errors import DistutilsFileError
- from distutils.command.build_ext import build_ext
-