diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index ecaae13846..bab34ab9b5 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -737,9 +737,6 @@ staging-finalize:
 target-finalize: $(PACKAGES) host-finalize
 	@$(call MESSAGE,"Finalizing target directory")
 	# Check files that are touched by more than one package
-	./support/scripts/check-uniq-files -t target $(BUILD_DIR)/packages-file-list.txt
-	./support/scripts/check-uniq-files -t staging $(BUILD_DIR)/packages-file-list-staging.txt
-	./support/scripts/check-uniq-files -t host $(BUILD_DIR)/packages-file-list-host.txt
 	$(foreach hook,$(TARGET_FINALIZE_HOOKS),$($(hook))$(sep))
 	rm -rf $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/include $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/share/aclocal \
 		$(TARGET_DIR)/usr/lib/pkgconfig $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/share/pkgconfig \
diff --git a/support/scripts/check-uniq-files b/support/scripts/check-uniq-files
deleted file mode 100755
index fbc6b5d6e7..0000000000
--- a/support/scripts/check-uniq-files
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-
-import sys
-import argparse
-from collections import defaultdict
-
-warn = 'Warning: {0} file "{1}" is touched by more than one package: {2}\n'
-
-
-def main():
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
-    parser.add_argument('packages_file_list', nargs='*',
-                        help='The packages-file-list to check from')
-    parser.add_argument('-t', '--type', metavar="TYPE",
-                        help='Report as a TYPE file (TYPE is either target, staging, or host)')
-
-    args = parser.parse_args()
-
-    if not len(args.packages_file_list) == 1:
-        sys.stderr.write('No packages-file-list was provided.\n')
-        return False
-
-    if args.type is None:
-        sys.stderr.write('No type was provided\n')
-        return False
-
-    file_to_pkg = defaultdict(list)
-    with open(args.packages_file_list[0], 'rb') as pkg_file_list:
-        for line in pkg_file_list.readlines():
-            pkg, _, file = line.rstrip(b'\n').partition(b',')
-            file_to_pkg[file].append(pkg)
-
-    for file in file_to_pkg:
-        if len(file_to_pkg[file]) > 1:
-            # If possible, try to decode the binary strings with
-            # the default user's locale
-            try:
-                sys.stderr.write(warn.format(args.type, file.decode(),
-                                             [p.decode() for p in file_to_pkg[file]]))
-            except UnicodeDecodeError:
-                # ... but fallback to just dumping them raw if they
-                # contain non-representable chars
-                sys.stderr.write(warn.format(args.type, file,
-                                             file_to_pkg[file]))
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    sys.exit(main())