diff --git a/lang/python/python-mysqlclient/Makefile b/lang/python/python-mysqlclient/Makefile
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-#
-# Copyright (C) 2007-2018 OpenWrt.org
-#
-# This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
-# See /LICENSE for more information.
-#
-
-include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
-
-PKG_NAME:=python-mysqlclient
-PKG_VERSION:=1.4.6
-PKG_RELEASE:=2
-PKG_LICENSE:=GPL-2.0
-
-PYPI_NAME:=mysqlclient
-PKG_HASH:=f3fdaa9a38752a3b214a6fe79d7cae3653731a53e577821f9187e67cbecb2e16
-PKG_MAINTAINER:=Alexandru Ardelean <ardeleanalex@gmail.com>
-
-include ../pypi.mk
-include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
-include ../python3-package.mk
-# python-mysqlclient needs iconv
-include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/nls.mk
-
-define Package/python3-mysqlclient
-  SUBMENU:=Python
-  SECTION:=lang
-  CATEGORY:=Languages
-  TITLE:=MySQL database adapter
-  URL:=https://mysqlclient.readthedocs.io/
-  DEPENDS:=+python3 +libmysqlclient
-endef
-
-define Package/python3-mysqlclient/description
- MySQLdb is an thread-compatible interface to the popular MySQL database
- server that provides the Python database API.
-endef
-
-$(eval $(call Py3Package,python3-mysqlclient))
-$(eval $(call BuildPackage,python3-mysqlclient))
-$(eval $(call BuildPackage,python3-mysqlclient-src))