diff --git a/meta-perl/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-perl.bb b/meta-perl/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-perl.bb
index 187424b449..2672ab584a 100644
--- a/meta-perl/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-perl.bb
+++ b/meta-perl/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-perl.bb
@@ -79,7 +79,6 @@ RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-perl = "\
     libtest-nowarnings-perl \
     libtest-warn-perl \
     libunicode-linebreak-perl \
-    po4a \
 "
 
 RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-perl-extended = "\
diff --git a/meta-perl/recipes-perl/po4a/po4a_0.49.bb b/meta-perl/recipes-perl/po4a/po4a_0.49.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index 679ea0fb44..0000000000
--- a/meta-perl/recipes-perl/po4a/po4a_0.49.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-SUMMARY = "PO for anything"
-DESCRIPTION = "The po4a (PO for anything) project goal is to ease translations \
-(and more interestingly, the maintenance of translations) using gettext tools \
-on areas where they were not expected like documentation."
-HOMEPAGE = "https://po4a.alioth.debian.org"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=a96fc9b4cc36d80659e694ea109f0325"
-
-SRC_URI = "git://github.com/mquinson/po4a.git;protocol=https;branch=master"
-
-# v0.49
-SRCREV = "79ed87a577a543538fe39c7b60079981f5997072"
-
-S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
-
-DEPENDS = " \
-    libmodule-build-perl-native \
-    libtext-wrapi18n-perl \
-    libterm-readkey-perl \
-    liblocale-gettext-perl \
-    libunicode-linebreak-perl \
-"
-
-RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = " \
-    libtext-wrapi18n-perl \
-    libterm-readkey-perl \
-    liblocale-gettext-perl \
-    libunicode-linebreak-perl \
-"
-
-inherit cpan_build
-
-BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"