diff --git a/Config.in.legacy b/Config.in.legacy
index 9f1f7687fb..06bd962d9b 100644
--- a/Config.in.legacy
+++ b/Config.in.legacy
@@ -146,6 +146,13 @@ endif
 
 comment "Legacy options removed in 2021.11"
 
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_MELD3
+	bool "python-meld3 package removed"
+	select BR2_LEGACY
+	help
+	  This package has been removed as it is unmaintained since
+	  April 2020.
+
 config BR2_PACKAGE_STRONGSWAN_EAP
 	bool "strongswan EAP plugins now individually selectable"
 	select BR2_LEGACY
diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 2f83c87582..9fed0ab4cb 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -1073,7 +1073,6 @@ menu "External python modules"
 	source "package/python-markupsafe/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-matplotlib/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-mbstrdecoder/Config.in"
-	source "package/python-meld3/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-mimeparse/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-mistune/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-modbus-tk/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/python-meld3/Config.in b/package/python-meld3/Config.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 9366b3cda5..0000000000
--- a/package/python-meld3/Config.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_MELD3
-	bool "python-meld3"
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_PYEXPAT if BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3_PYEXPAT if BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3
-	help
-	  A HTML/XML templating system.
-
-	  https://github.com/supervisor/meld3
diff --git a/package/python-meld3/python-meld3.hash b/package/python-meld3/python-meld3.hash
deleted file mode 100644
index 69b303e60e..0000000000
--- a/package/python-meld3/python-meld3.hash
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-# md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/meld3/json
-md5  1add16caefc9e6b82ef4f40532cb4918  meld3-2.0.1.tar.gz
-sha256  3ea266994f1aa83507679a67b493b852c232a7905e29440a6b868558cad5e775  meld3-2.0.1.tar.gz
-# Locally computed sha256 checksums
-sha256  5fe11cd858707131b6ec1338b5c2cd68dd1fdb875e3ec967149bc6fea858ecec  LICENSE.txt
-sha256  2422945b49554688d529e1f8d4ac6e0ab77a817e8889158e1e56cf963ecf5c4d  COPYRIGHT.txt
diff --git a/package/python-meld3/python-meld3.mk b/package/python-meld3/python-meld3.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index c7973d9c71..0000000000
--- a/package/python-meld3/python-meld3.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-#
-# python-meld3
-#
-################################################################################
-
-PYTHON_MELD3_VERSION = 2.0.1
-PYTHON_MELD3_SOURCE = meld3-$(PYTHON_MELD3_VERSION).tar.gz
-PYTHON_MELD3_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/53/af/5b8b67d04a36980de03505446d35db39c7b2a01b9bac1cb673434769ddb8
-PYTHON_MELD3_LICENSE = ZPL-2.1
-PYTHON_MELD3_LICENSE_FILES = COPYRIGHT.txt LICENSE.txt
-PYTHON_MELD3_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
-
-$(eval $(python-package))