diff --git a/Config.in.legacy b/Config.in.legacy
index 0238fbcb24..b925e563d3 100644
--- a/Config.in.legacy
+++ b/Config.in.legacy
@@ -152,6 +152,14 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_JAMVM
 	help
 	  JamVM has not had a release since 2014 and is unmaintained.
 
+config BR2_PACKAGE_CLASSPATH
+	bool "classpath removed"
+	select BR2_LEGACY
+	help
+	  GNU Classpath package was removed. The last upstream
+	  release was in 2012 and there hasn't been a commit
+	  since 2016.
+
 config BR2_PACKAGE_QT5_VERSION_5_6
 	bool "qt 5.6 support removed"
 	select BR2_LEGACY
diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 564a60c617..edf7687ab7 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -1752,7 +1752,6 @@ menu "Other"
 	source "package/cereal/Config.in"
 	source "package/clang/Config.in"
 	source "package/clapack/Config.in"
-	source "package/classpath/Config.in"
 	source "package/cmocka/Config.in"
 	source "package/cppcms/Config.in"
 	source "package/cracklib/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/classpath/Config.in b/package/classpath/Config.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 0385ccd431..0000000000
--- a/package/classpath/Config.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-config BR2_PACKAGE_CLASSPATH_ARCH_SUPPORTS
-	bool
-	default y if BR2_arm || BR2_armeb || BR2_i386 || BR2_m68k \
-		|| BR2_mips || BR2_mipsel || BR2_mips64 || BR2_mips64el \
-		|| BR2_powerpc || BR2_powerpc64 || BR2_powerpc64le \
-		|| BR2_sparc || BR2_sparc64 || BR2_sh || BR2_x86_64
-
-config BR2_PACKAGE_CLASSPATH
-	bool "classpath"
-	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_CLASSPATH_ARCH_SUPPORTS
-	select BR2_NEEDS_HOST_JAR
-	select BR2_NEEDS_HOST_JAVAC
-	help
-	  GNU Classpath, Essential Libraries for Java, is a GNU
-	  project to create free core class libraries for use with
-	  virtual machines and compilers for the java programming
-	  language.
-
-	  http://classpath.org
diff --git a/package/classpath/classpath.hash b/package/classpath/classpath.hash
deleted file mode 100644
index 98a7f1eab0..0000000000
--- a/package/classpath/classpath.hash
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-# From https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/announce/20120307.html
-sha256  f929297f8ae9b613a1a167e231566861893260651d913ad9b6c11933895fecc8  classpath-0.99.tar.gz
-# locally computed
-sha256  357bd31f17c7869a73cd159e46b3dafa2bbf434f022085a820c1f68d941a0b4c  COPYING
diff --git a/package/classpath/classpath.mk b/package/classpath/classpath.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index 7177bbfe06..0000000000
--- a/package/classpath/classpath.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-#
-# classpath
-#
-################################################################################
-
-CLASSPATH_VERSION = 0.99
-CLASSPATH_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/classpath
-CLASSPATH_CONF_OPTS = \
-	--disable-examples \
-	--disable-rpath \
-	--disable-Werror \
-	--disable-gconf-peer \
-	--disable-gjdoc \
-	--disable-gstreamer-peer \
-	--enable-tools
-
-# classpath assumes qt runs on top of X11, but we
-# don't support qt4 on X11
-CLASSPATH_CONF_OPTS += --disable-qt-peer
-CLASSPATH_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf
-CLASSPATH_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+ with exception
-CLASSPATH_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
-
-# Needs ALSA pcm and sequencer (midi) support
-# pcm is always on for alsa-lib
-ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_ALSA_LIB_SEQ),y)
-CLASSPATH_CONF_OPTS += --enable-alsa
-CLASSPATH_DEPENDENCIES += alsa-lib
-else
-CLASSPATH_CONF_OPTS += --disable-alsa
-endif
-
-ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_GMP),y)
-CLASSPATH_CONF_OPTS += --enable-gmp --with-gmp="$(STAGING_DIR)/usr"
-CLASSPATH_DEPENDENCIES += gmp
-else
-CLASSPATH_CONF_OPTS += --disable-gmp
-endif
-
-ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBGTK2)$(BR2_PACKAGE_XORG7),yy)
-CLASSPATH_CONF_OPTS += --enable-gtk-peer
-CLASSPATH_DEPENDENCIES += libgtk2
-else
-CLASSPATH_CONF_OPTS += --disable-gtk-peer
-endif
-
-ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBXML2)$(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBXSLT)$(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS),yyy)
-CLASSPATH_CONF_OPTS += --enable-xmlj
-CLASSPATH_DEPENDENCIES += libxml2 libxslt
-else
-CLASSPATH_CONF_OPTS += --disable-xmlj
-endif
-
-$(eval $(autotools-package))