diff --git a/common/recipes-devtools/python/python-dbus/bytes.patch b/common/recipes-devtools/python/python-dbus/bytes.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index d8a10a0..0000000
--- a/common/recipes-devtools/python/python-dbus/bytes.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-Index: dbus-python-1.2.0/_dbus_bindings/bytes.c
-===================================================================
---- dbus-python-1.2.0.orig/_dbus_bindings/bytes.c
-+++ dbus-python-1.2.0/_dbus_bindings/bytes.c
-@@ -138,23 +138,6 @@ bad_range:
-     return NULL;
- }
- 
--static PyObject *
--Byte_tp_str(PyObject *self)
--{
--    long i = NATIVEINT_ASLONG(self);
--    unsigned char str[2] = { 0, 0 };
--
--    if (i == -1 && PyErr_Occurred())
--        return NULL;
--    if (i < 0 || i > 255) {
--        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_RuntimeError, "Integer outside range 0-255");
--        return NULL;
--    }
--
--    str[0] = (unsigned char)i;
--    return PyUnicode_FromStringAndSize((char *)str, 1);
--}
--
- PyTypeObject DBusPyByte_Type = {
-         PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT(DEFERRED_ADDRESS(&PyType_Type), 0)
-         "dbus.Byte",
-@@ -171,7 +154,7 @@ PyTypeObject DBusPyByte_Type = {
-         0,                                      /* tp_as_mapping */
-         0,                                      /* tp_hash */
-         0,                                      /* tp_call */
--        Byte_tp_str,                            /* tp_str */
-+        0,                                      /* tp_str */
-         0,                                      /* tp_getattro */
-         0,                                      /* tp_setattro */
-         0,                                      /* tp_as_buffer */
diff --git a/common/recipes-devtools/python/python-dbus_%.bbappend b/common/recipes-devtools/python/python-dbus_%.bbappend
deleted file mode 100644
index 57d5ef4..0000000
--- a/common/recipes-devtools/python/python-dbus_%.bbappend
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"
-SRC_URI += "file://bytes.patch"