diff --git a/meta-phosphor/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject/obsolete_automake_macros.patch b/meta-phosphor/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject/obsolete_automake_macros.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 9e251a3..0000000
--- a/meta-phosphor/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject/obsolete_automake_macros.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-From 9de1bb6f37c4aedb9b21640003db46927d25b30b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Marko Lindqvist <cazfi74@gmail.com>
-Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 16:30:42 -0500
-Subject: [PATCH] python-pygobject: Backport 2.28.3
-
-Upstream-Status: Accepted [https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691101]
-
-Signed-off-by: Marko Lindqvist <cazfi74@gmail.com>
-
----
- configure.ac | 3 +--
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
-index f5ba355..ac5547a 100644
---- a/configure.ac
-+++ b/configure.ac
-@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ AC_SUBST(PYGOBJECT_MINOR_VERSION, pygobject_minor_version)
- AC_DEFINE(PYGOBJECT_MICRO_VERSION, pygobject_micro_version, [pygobject micro version])
- AC_SUBST(PYGOBJECT_MICRO_VERSION, pygobject_micro_version)
- 
--AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
-+AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(config.h)
- m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES], [AM_SILENT_RULES(yes)])
- AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(foreign)
- AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
-@@ -82,7 +82,6 @@ dnl when using libtool 2.x create libtool early, because it's used in configure
- m4_ifdef([LT_OUTPUT], [LT_OUTPUT])
- AC_ISC_POSIX
- AC_PROG_CC
--AM_PROG_CC_STDC
- AM_PROG_CC_C_O
- 
- # check that we have the minimum version of python necessary to build
diff --git a/meta-phosphor/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject_2.28.7.bb b/meta-phosphor/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject_2.28.7.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index cf0eb5d..0000000
--- a/meta-phosphor/recipes-devtools/python/python-pygobject_2.28.7.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-SUMMARY = "Python GObject bindings"
-SECTION = "devel/python"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
-
-RECIPE_NO_UPDATE_REASON = "Newer versions of python-pygobject depend on gobject-introspection which doesn't cross-compile"
-
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=a916467b91076e631dd8edb7424769c7"
-DEPENDS = "python python-pygobject-native libffi glib-2.0"
-DEPENDS_class-native = "python-native libffi-native glib-2.0-native"
-RDEPENDS_class-native = ""
-
-MAJ_VER = "${@d.getVar('PV',1).split('.')[0]}.${@d.getVar('PV',1).split('.')[1]}"
-
-SRC_URI = "${GNOME_MIRROR}/pygobject/${MAJ_VER}/pygobject-${PV}.tar.xz \
-           file://obsolete_automake_macros.patch \
-"
-
-# libtool-native doesn't have fixinstall.patch applied which means
-# that libs get relinked at installation time. This triggers a
-# relinking along the lines of:
-# gcc -L/tmp/foo/media/build1/poky/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/lib -lpyglib-2.0-python -o .libs/_glib.so
-# where /tmp/foo is DESTDIR and pyglib-2.0-python may be installed/reinstalled
-# at the same time as the gcc command runs.
-# If this happens between the handoff between gcc and ld, you can see:
-# /bin/ld: cannot find -lpyglib-2.0-python
-# Adding a dependency rule like  install-pyglibLTLIBRARIES: install-libLTLIBRARIES
-# would be ideal but automake can't cope with that without manually
-# defining the whole function. Give up and disable parallel make in native builds.
-PARALLEL_MAKEINST_class-native = ""
-
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "ae48b60c690c4aa894e69e0c97802745"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "bb9d25a3442ca7511385a7c01b057492095c263784ef31231ffe589d83a96a5a"
-S = "${WORKDIR}/pygobject-${PV}"
-
-EXTRA_OECONF += "--disable-introspection"
-
-inherit autotools distutils3-base pkgconfig
-
-# necessary to let the call for python-config succeed
-export BUILD_SYS
-export HOST_SYS
-export STAGING_INCDIR
-export STAGING_LIBDIR
-
-PACKAGES += "${PN}-lib"
-
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "python-textutils"
-
-FILES_${PN} = "${libdir}/python*"
-FILES_${PN}-lib = "${libdir}/lib*.so.*"
-FILES_${PN}-dev += "${bindir} ${datadir}"
-
-BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"