diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb b/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb
index dbfa991ebe..6b10913657 100644
--- a/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb
+++ b/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb
@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-python3 = "\
     python3-colorlog \
     python3-colorzero \
     python3-configargparse \
-    python3-configobj \
     python3-configparser \
     python3-configshell-fb \
     python3-constantly \
diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-configobj_5.0.6.bb b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-configobj_5.0.6.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index 1b85368105..0000000000
--- a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-configobj_5.0.6.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-SUMMARY = "Config file reading, writing and validation."
-SECTION = "devel/python"
-LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://configobj.py;md5=a7c3968dd866dfd23e91e125b669ab21"
-
-PYPI_PACKAGE = "configobj"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "a2f5650770e1c87fb335af19a9b7eb73fc05ccf22144eb68db7d00cd2bcb0902"
-
-inherit pypi setuptools3