diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb b/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb
index 1f78c7dc9..260687aa5 100644
--- a/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb
+++ b/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb
@@ -354,7 +354,6 @@ RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-python3 = "\
     python3-rdflib \
     python3-redis \
     python3-regex \
-    python3-requests \
     python3-requests-file \
     python3-requests-ftp \
     python3-requests-futures \
diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-requests_2.27.1.bb b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-requests_2.27.1.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index af52b7caf..000000000
--- a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-requests_2.27.1.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "Python HTTP for Humans."
-HOMEPAGE = "http://python-requests.org"
-LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=34400b68072d710fecd0a2940a0d1658"
-
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "68d7c56fd5a8999887728ef304a6d12edc7be74f1cfa47714fc8b414525c9a61"
-
-inherit pypi setuptools3
-
-RDEPENDS:${PN} += " \
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-email \
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-json \
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-ndg-httpsclient \
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-netserver \
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-pyasn1 \
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-pyopenssl \
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-pysocks \
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-urllib3 \
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-chardet \
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-idna \
-"
-
-CVE_PRODUCT = "requests"
-
-BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"