diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
index 08fd83d3c4..a595507948 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
@@ -587,7 +587,6 @@ RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-pulseaudio-client-conf-sato = "Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk@iki.fi>
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-puzzles = "Anuj Mittal <anuj.mittal@intel.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksandr-kravchuk.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python-native = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksandr-kravchuk.com>"
-RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python-nose = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksandr-kravchuk.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python-setuptools = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksandr-kravchuk.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python3 = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksandr-kravchuk.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python3-async = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksandr-kravchuk.com>"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-nose_1.3.7.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-nose_1.3.7.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index fab609df90..0000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-nose_1.3.7.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-inherit setuptools
-require python-nose.inc
-
-do_install_append() {
-    rm ${D}${bindir}/nosetests
-}