diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb b/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb
index 7b7d7bee98..0500ba19e1 100644
--- a/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb
+++ b/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb
@@ -459,7 +459,6 @@ RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-python3 = "\
     python3-wtforms \
     python3-xlrd \
     python3-xlsxwriter \
-    python3-xmlrunner \
     python3-xmltodict \
     python3-xmodem \
     python3-xstatic \
diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-xmlrunner_1.7.7.bb b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-xmlrunner_1.7.7.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index 7259c3fad3..0000000000
--- a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-xmlrunner_1.7.7.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-SUMMARY = "unittest-based test runner with Ant/JUnit like XML reporting"
-HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/pycontribs/xmlrunner"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-3.0-only"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://PKG-INFO;md5=fa964f202b6ae067ed5828fe43c77c1a"
-
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "7b0b152ed2d278516aedbc0cac22dfb3"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "5a6113d049eca7646111ee657266966e5bbfb0b5ceb2e83ee0772e16d7110f39"
-
-inherit pypi setuptools3
-
-RDEPENDS:${PN} += "python3-unittest"