diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
index b0bc22ccfa..87a3fdcfa6 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
@@ -680,7 +680,6 @@ RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-pyparsing = "Trevor Gamblin <tgamblin@baylibre.com>
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-pyproject-hooks = "Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-pysocks = "Tim Orling <tim.orling@konsulko.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-pytest = "Trevor Gamblin <tgamblin@baylibre.com>"
-RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-pytest-runner = "Tim Orling <tim.orling@konsulko.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-pytest-subtests = "Tim Orling <tim.orling@konsulko.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-pytz = "Tim Orling <tim.orling@konsulko.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-pyyaml = "Tim Orling <tim.orling@konsulko.com>"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pytest-runner_6.0.1.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pytest-runner_6.0.1.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index e5e5e048bd..0000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pytest-runner_6.0.1.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-SUMMARY = "Invoke py.test as distutils command with dependency resolution"
-HOMEPAGE = "https://pypi.org/project/pytest-runner/"
-LICENSE = "MIT"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=7a7126e068206290f3fe9f8d6c713ea6"
-
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "70d4739585a7008f37bf4933c013fdb327b8878a5a69fcbb3316c88882f0f49b"
-
-inherit pypi python_setuptools_build_meta
-
-DEPENDS += " \
-    python3-setuptools-scm-native"
-
-RDEPENDS:${PN} = "python3-setuptools python3-debugger python3-json python3-io"
-
-BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"