diff --git a/whois/.footprint b/whois/.footprint
deleted file mode 100644
index 06ef3e2d6..000000000
--- a/whois/.footprint
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	etc/
--rw-r--r--	root/root	etc/whois.conf
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/bin/
--rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/bin/whois
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/man/
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/man/man1/
--rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/man/man1/whois.1.gz
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/man/man5/
--rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/man/man5/whois.conf.5.gz
diff --git a/whois/.md5sum b/whois/.md5sum
deleted file mode 100644
index 91d801633..000000000
--- a/whois/.md5sum
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-aa4561134a03e22e2d759748ca676a97  whois_5.1.1.tar.xz
diff --git a/whois/Pkgfile b/whois/Pkgfile
deleted file mode 100644
index 87a803e75..000000000
--- a/whois/Pkgfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-# Description: A modern whois client
-# URL:         http://www.linux.it/~md/software/
-# Maintainer:  Juergen Daubert, jue at crux dot nu
-# Packager:    Olle Gustafsson, ogg at linux dot se
-
-name=whois
-version=5.1.1
-release=1
-source=(http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/$name/$name\_$version.tar.xz)
-
-build() {
-    cd $name-$version
-    sed -i "/^CFLAGS/s/=.*$/=$CFLAGS/" Makefile
-    make CONFIG_FILE='/etc/whois.conf' whois
-    install -D -m 0755 whois $PKG/usr/bin/whois
-    install -D -m 0644 whois.1 $PKG/usr/man/man1/whois.1
-    install -D -m 0644 whois.conf.5 $PKG/usr/man/man5/whois.conf.5
-    install -D -m 0644 whois.conf $PKG/etc/whois.conf
-}