diff --git a/common/build-helper/gir.sh b/common/build-helper/gir.sh
index a9e6362132..0091fb31ad 100644
--- a/common/build-helper/gir.sh
+++ b/common/build-helper/gir.sh
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ if [ "$build_option_gir" ] || [[ $build_options != *"gir"* ]]; then
 		export VAPIGEN_GIRDIRS=${XBPS_CROSS_BASE}/usr/share/gir-1.0
 
 		# Provide some packages in hostmakedepends if they are in makedepends
-		for f in gtk+3-devel python-gobject-devel python3-gobject-devel; do
+		for f in gtk+3-devel python3-gobject-devel; do
 			if [[ $makedepends == *"${f}"* ]]; then
 				hostmakedepends+=" ${f}"
 			fi
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-gobject-devel b/srcpkgs/python-gobject-devel
deleted file mode 120000
index 4af4eca590..0000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/python-gobject-devel
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-python-gobject
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-gobject/template b/srcpkgs/python-gobject/template
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ea5cc9361..0000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/python-gobject/template
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-# Template file for 'python-gobject'
-pkgname=python-gobject
-version=3.36.1
-revision=2
-wrksrc="pygobject-${version}"
-build_style=meson
-build_helper="gir"
-configure_args="-Dpython=python2.7"
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config python"
-makedepends="libglib-devel python-cairo-devel python-devel"
-depends="gir-freedesktop python-cairo"
-short_desc="Python2 bindings for GObject"
-maintainer="Enno Boland <gottox@voidlinux.org>"
-license="LGPL-2.1-or-later"
-homepage="https://pygobject.readthedocs.io/"
-distfiles="${GNOME_SITE}/pygobject/${version%.*}/pygobject-${version}.tar.xz"
-checksum=d1bf42802d1cec113b5adaa0e7bf7f3745b44521dc2163588d276d5cd61d718f
-
-python-gobject-devel_package() {
-	depends="libgirepository-devel python-cairo-devel
-	 libglib-devel libffi-devel
-	 python-gobject>=${version}_${revision}"
-	conflicts="python3-gobject-devel"
-	short_desc+=" - development files"
-	pkg_install() {
-		vmove usr/include
-		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
-	}
-}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-gobject/update b/srcpkgs/python-gobject/update
deleted file mode 100644
index 46e4c14707..0000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/python-gobject/update
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-pkgname="pygobject"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/removed-packages/template b/srcpkgs/removed-packages/template
index 19fda67bd0..91cf9a4dd9 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/removed-packages/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/removed-packages/template
@@ -278,6 +278,8 @@ replaces="
  python-enchant<=2.0.0_4
  python-evdev<=1.2.0_5
  python-gntp<=1.0.3_7
+ python-gobject-devel<=3.36.1_2
+ python-gobject<=3.36.1_2
  python-iso8601<=0.1.16_2
  python-jellyfish<=0.6.1_2
  python-lockfile<=0.12.2_7