diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 35cf029b0f..03be74d08d 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1214,7 +1214,6 @@ libpurple.so.0 libpurple-2.10.6_1
 libpurple-client.so.0 libpurple-2.10.6_1
 libjabber.so.0 libpurple-2.13.0_1
 libgnt.so.0 libgnt-2.10.6_1
-libvarnishapi.so.2 libvarnishapi-6.1.1_1
 libao.so.4 libao-1.1.0_1
 libjansson.so.4 jansson-2.4_1
 libleveldb.so.1 leveldb-1.8.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libvarnishapi b/srcpkgs/libvarnishapi
deleted file mode 120000
index 1605f8f84b..0000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/libvarnishapi
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-varnish
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libvarnishapi-devel b/srcpkgs/libvarnishapi-devel
deleted file mode 120000
index 1605f8f84b..0000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/libvarnishapi-devel
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-varnish
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/varnish/INSTALL.msg b/srcpkgs/varnish/INSTALL.msg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3b1bebb7af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/varnish/INSTALL.msg
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+varnish is no longer provided by Void Linux, and will be fully removed from the repos on 2019/04/25
diff --git a/srcpkgs/varnish/files/varnish-vcl-reload b/srcpkgs/varnish/files/varnish-vcl-reload
deleted file mode 100644
index 7e84a258bf..0000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/varnish/files/varnish-vcl-reload
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-cfg=${1:-/etc/varnish/default.vcl}
-if [ ! -e "$cfg" ]; then
-  printf 'ERROR: VCL file %s does not exist\n' "$cfg" >&2
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-activecfg=$(varnishadm 'vcl.list' | awk '/active/ { print $3 }')
-if [ -z "$activecfg" ]; then
-  printf 'ERROR: No active VCL found!\n' >&2
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-newcfg=$(date +'vcl-%s')
-printf 'INFO: using new config %s\n' "$cfg"
-
-varnishadm "vcl.load $newcfg $cfg" &&
-varnishadm "vcl.use $newcfg" &&
-varnishadm "vcl.discard $activecfg"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/varnish/files/varnishd/run b/srcpkgs/varnish/files/varnishd/run
deleted file mode 100755
index 8080615090..0000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/varnish/files/varnishd/run
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-exec varnishd -a 0.0.0.0:80 -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl -T localhost:6082 -s malloc,64M -u nobody -g nogroup -F
diff --git a/srcpkgs/varnish/patches/musl.patch b/srcpkgs/varnish/patches/musl.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index a417c31904..0000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/varnish/patches/musl.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- include/vpf.h	2016-03-03 14:40:01.000000000 +0100
-+++ include/vpf.h	2018-01-11 11:45:26.521900821 +0100
-@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@
- #ifndef VPF_H_INCLUDED
- #define VPF_H_INCLUDED
- 
-+#include <sys/types.h>
-+
- struct vpf_fh;
- 
- struct vpf_fh *VPF_Open(const char *path, mode_t mode, pid_t *pidptr);
---- include/vsb.h	2017-11-14 14:39:22.000000000 +0100
-+++ include/vsb.h	2018-01-11 11:48:15.505912873 +0100
-@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@
- #ifndef VSB_H_INCLUDED
- #define VSB_H_INCLUDED
- 
-+#include <sys/types.h>
-+
- /*
-  * Structure definition
-  */
diff --git a/srcpkgs/varnish/template b/srcpkgs/varnish/template
index 173e074035..03e959cf22 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/varnish/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/varnish/template
@@ -1,49 +1,9 @@
 # Template file for 'varnish'
 pkgname=varnish
 version=6.1.1
-revision=2
-lib32disabled=yes
-build_style=gnu-configure
-configure_args="--disable-static"
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config python python-docutils python-Sphinx"
-makedepends="pcre-devel readline-devel jemalloc-devel"
-short_desc="A fast caching HTTP reverse proxy"
-maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.org>"
-license="BSD-2-Clause"
+revision=3
+noarch=yes
+build_style=meta
+short_desc="A fast caching HTTP reverse proxy (removed package)"
+license="metapackage"
 homepage="https://varnish-cache.org/"
-distfiles="https://varnish-cache.org/_downloads/${pkgname}-${version}.tgz"
-checksum=e0ee7c88a8149d8890b26fd9e1d909859ea895a39ca188d76a96869cff87c93d
-
-conf_files="/etc/varnish/default.vcl"
-make_dirs="/var/varnish 750 nobody nogroup"
-
-nocross="Cannot run test program when cross compiling (PCRE_JIT)"
-
-case "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" in
-	*-musl) makedepends+=" libexecinfo-devel"
-		broken="Segfaults when running ../../bin/varnishd/varnishd -x cli > include/cli.rst"
-		;;
-esac
-
-post_install() {
-	vinstall etc/example.vcl 644 etc/varnish default.vcl
-	vsv varnishd
-	vlicense LICENSE
-}
-
-libvarnishapi_package() {
-	short_desc+=" - API runtime library"
-	pkg_install() {
-		vmove "usr/lib/*.so.*"
-	}
-}
-libvarnishapi-devel_package() {
-	depends="libvarnishapi>=${version}_${revision}"
-	short_desc+=" - API development files"
-	pkg_install() {
-		vmove usr/include
-		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
-		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
-		vmove usr/share/man/man3
-	}
-}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/varnish/update b/srcpkgs/varnish/update
deleted file mode 100644
index 30fbc3a065..0000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/varnish/update
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-site="https://varnish-cache.org/releases/index.html"