diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index fd244610ad1..4b59264ddc1 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -3307,7 +3307,6 @@ libnomacsCore.so.3 nomacs-3.10.2_4
 libaudit.so.1 libaudit-2.8.4_1
 libauparse.so.0 libauparse-2.8.4_1
 libOpenCL.so.1 ocl-icd-2.2.12_1
-libdleyna-core-1.0.so.5 dleyna-core-0.6.0_1
 libdleyna-renderer-1.0.so.1 dleyna-renderer-0.6.0_1
 libdleyna-server-1.0.so.1 dleyna-server-0.6.0_1
 liburiparser.so.1 uriparser-0.8.6_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/dleyna-core-devel b/srcpkgs/dleyna-core-devel
deleted file mode 120000
index 412aa7e0748..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/dleyna-core-devel
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-dleyna-core
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/dleyna-core/INSTALL.msg b/srcpkgs/dleyna-core/INSTALL.msg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cf316bb24d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/dleyna-core/INSTALL.msg
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+dleyna-core is no longer provided by Void Linux, and will be fully removed from the repos on 2019/06/14
diff --git a/srcpkgs/dleyna-core/template b/srcpkgs/dleyna-core/template
index 9383447ea03..c4be86e9bdc 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/dleyna-core/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/dleyna-core/template
@@ -1,27 +1,9 @@
 # Template file for 'dleyna-core'
 pkgname=dleyna-core
 version=0.6.0
-revision=1
-build_style=gnu-configure
-hostmakedepends="automake libtool pkg-config"
-makedepends="libglib-devel gupnp-devel"
-short_desc="Library of utility functions for higher-level dleyna libraries"
-maintainer="maxice8 <thinkabit.ukim@gmail.com>"
-license="LGPL-2.1-or-later"
+revision=2
+archs=noarch
+build_style=meta
+short_desc="Library of utility functions for higher-level dleyna libraries (removed package)"
+license="metapackage"
 homepage="https://01.org/dleyna/"
-distfiles="https://github.com/intel/dleyna-core/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=e999ef3829837b777d04dc964e564704327533f5401b158ce1da8ab9be5cb61b
-
-pre_configure() {
-	autoreconf -fi
-}
-
-dleyna-core-devel_package() {
-	depends="libglib-devel gupnp-devel dleyna-core-${version}_${revision}"
-	short_desc+=" - development files"
-	pkg_install() {
-		vmove usr/include
-		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
-		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
-	}
-}