diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/telepathy/telepathy-idle/fix-svc-gtk-doc.h-target.patch b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/telepathy/telepathy-idle/fix-svc-gtk-doc.h-target.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 2cd2c78c31..0000000000
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/telepathy/telepathy-idle/fix-svc-gtk-doc.h-target.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-Upstream-Status: Pending
-
-Signed-off-by: Constantin Musca <constantinx.musca@intel.com>
---- a/extensions/Makefile.am
-+++ b/extensions/Makefile.am
-@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ _gen/all.xml: all.xml $(wildcard $(srcdi
- 		--xinclude $(tools_dir)/identity.xsl \
- 		$< > $@
- 
--extensions.html: _gen/all.xml $(tools_dir)/doc-generator.xsl
-+extensions.html _gen/svc-gtk-doc.h: _gen/all.xml $(tools_dir)/doc-generator.xsl
- 	$(AM_V_GEN)$(XSLTPROC) $(XSLTPROCFLAGS) \
- 		$(tools_dir)/doc-generator.xsl \
- 		$< > $@
- 
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/telepathy/telepathy-idle_0.2.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/telepathy/telepathy-idle_0.2.0.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index 039cfc3a89..0000000000
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/telepathy/telepathy-idle_0.2.0.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-SUMMARY = "Telepathy IRC connection manager"
-DESCRIPTION = "Telepathy implementation of the Internet Relay Chat protocols."
-HOMEPAGE = "http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/"
-DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 dbus telepathy-glib openssl libxslt-native"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1 \
-                    file://src/idle.c;beginline=1;endline=19;md5=b06b1e2594423111a1a7910b0eefc7f9"
-
-SRC_URI = "http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/releases/${BPN}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \
-           file://fix-svc-gtk-doc.h-target.patch"
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "92a2de5198284cbd3c430b0d1a971a86"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "3013ad4b38d14ee630b8cc8ada5e95ccaa849b9a6fe15d2eaf6d0717d76f2fab"
-
-inherit autotools pkgconfig ${@bb.utils.contains("BBFILE_COLLECTIONS", "meta-python2", "pythonnative", "", d)}
-
-FILES:${PN} += "${datadir}/telepathy \
-                ${datadir}/dbus-1"
-
-python() {
-    if 'meta-python2' not in d.getVar('BBFILE_COLLECTIONS').split():
-        raise bb.parse.SkipRecipe('Requires meta-python2 to be present.')
-}
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb
index 9523e78ddd..163061ca7b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ PACKAGES = "\
     packagegroup-meta-oe \
     packagegroup-meta-oe-benchmarks \
     packagegroup-meta-oe-connectivity \
-    packagegroup-meta-oe-connectivity-python2 \
     packagegroup-meta-oe-core \
     packagegroup-meta-oe-crypto \
     packagegroup-meta-oe-bsp \
@@ -35,7 +34,6 @@ RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-oe = "\
     packagegroup-meta-oe-benchmarks \
     packagegroup-meta-oe-bsp \
     packagegroup-meta-oe-connectivity \
-    ${@bb.utils.contains("BBFILE_COLLECTIONS", "meta-python2", "packagegroup-meta-oe-connectivity-python2", "", d)} \
     packagegroup-meta-oe-core \
     packagegroup-meta-oe-crypto \
     packagegroup-meta-oe-dbs \
@@ -167,10 +165,6 @@ RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-oe-connectivity ="\
 
 RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-oe-connectivity:append:libc-glibc = " wvstreams wvdial"
 
-RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-oe-connectivity-python2 = "\
-    ${@bb.utils.contains("BBFILE_COLLECTIONS", "meta-python2", "telepathy-idle", "", d)} \
-"
-
 # dracut needs dracut
 RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-oe-core = "\
     ${@bb.utils.contains("DISTRO_FEATURES", "systemd", "dbus-broker", "", d)} \