diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
index 87a3fdcfa60..90fde4f8546 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
@@ -638,7 +638,6 @@ RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-hatch-vcs = "Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-hypothesis = "Trevor Gamblin <tgamblin@baylibre.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-idna = "Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-imagesize = "Tim Orling <tim.orling@konsulko.com>"
-RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-importlib-metadata = "Tim Orling <tim.orling@konsulko.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-iniconfig = "Tim Orling <tim.orling@konsulko.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-iniparse = "Trevor Gamblin <tgamblin@baylibre.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-iso8601 = "Tim Orling <tim.orling@konsulko.com>"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-importlib-metadata_8.2.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-importlib-metadata_8.2.0.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index 3e1c7a7d6b7..00000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-importlib-metadata_8.2.0.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-SUMMARY = "Read metadata from Python packages"
-HOMEPAGE = "https://pypi.org/project/importlib-metadata/"
-LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=3b83ef96387f14655fc854ddc3c6bd57"
-
-inherit pypi python_setuptools_build_meta
-
-PYPI_PACKAGE = "importlib_metadata"
-UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "/importlib-metadata/(?P<pver>(\d+[\.\-_]*)+)/"
-
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "72e8d4399996132204f9a16dcc751af254a48f8d1b20b9ff0f98d4a8f901e73d"
-
-S = "${WORKDIR}/importlib_metadata-${PV}"
-
-DEPENDS += "python3-setuptools-scm-native"
-RDEPENDS:${PN} += "python3-zipp"
-RDEPENDS:${PN}:append:class-target = " python3-misc"
-RDEPENDS:${PN}:append:class-nativesdk = " python3-misc"
-
-BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"