diff --git a/Config.in.legacy b/Config.in.legacy
index 5d45d04c09..2e6062cb42 100644
--- a/Config.in.legacy
+++ b/Config.in.legacy
@@ -145,6 +145,13 @@ endif
 ###############################################################################
 comment "Legacy options removed in 2016.02"
 
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_PYXML
+	bool "python-pyxml package has been removed"
+	select BR2_LEGACY
+	help
+	  PyXML is obsolete and its functionality is covered either via
+	  native Python XML support or python-lxml package.
+
 # BR2_ENABLE_SSP is still referenced in Config.in (default in choice)
 config BR2_ENABLE_SSP
 	bool "Stack Smashing protection now has different levels"
diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 61b516ac67..71e19484b4 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -686,7 +686,6 @@ menu "External python modules"
 	source "package/python-pyudev/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-pyusb/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-pyxb/Config.in"
-	source "package/python-pyxml/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-pyyaml/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-pyzmq/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-requests/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/python-pyxml/Config.in b/package/python-pyxml/Config.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 82316bab2f..0000000000
--- a/package/python-pyxml/Config.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_PYXML
-	bool "python-pyxml"
-	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_EXPAT
-	help
-	  This is the Python XML package. The distribution contains a
-	  validating XML parser, an implementation of the SAX and DOM
-	  programming interfaces, an interface to the Expat parser (and the
-	  Expat parser itself), and a C helper module that can speed up
-	  xmllib.py by a factor of 5. There's even documentation!
-
-	  http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/index.html
diff --git a/package/python-pyxml/python-pyxml.hash b/package/python-pyxml/python-pyxml.hash
deleted file mode 100644
index df98c4655a..0000000000
--- a/package/python-pyxml/python-pyxml.hash
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-# Locally computed
-sha256 9fab66f9584fb8e67aebd8745a5c97bf1c5a2e2e461adf68862bcec64e448c13  PyXML-0.8.4.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/python-pyxml/python-pyxml.mk b/package/python-pyxml/python-pyxml.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index 7ccce8e173..0000000000
--- a/package/python-pyxml/python-pyxml.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-#
-# python-pyxml
-#
-################################################################################
-
-PYTHON_PYXML_VERSION = 0.8.4
-PYTHON_PYXML_SOURCE = PyXML-$(PYTHON_PYXML_VERSION).tar.gz
-PYTHON_PYXML_SITE = http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/pyxml/pyxml/$(PYTHON_PYXML_VERSION)
-PYTHON_PYXML_LICENSE = BSD-3c
-PYTHON_PYXML_LICENSE_FILES = LICENCE
-PYTHON_PYXML_SETUP_TYPE = distutils
-PYTHON_PYXML_DEPENDENCIES = expat
-PYTHON_PYXML_BUILD_OPTS = --with-libexpat=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr
-PYTHON_PYXML_INSTALL_TARGET_OPTS = --with-libexpat=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr
-
-$(eval $(python-package))