diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index da2e6fce790..67d38af4163 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -4483,7 +4483,6 @@ libgsoapssl++-2.8.124.so gsoap-2.8.124_1
 libjxl.so.0.11 libjxl-0.11.0_1
 libjxl_cms.so.0.11 libjxl-0.11.0_1
 libjxl_threads.so.0.11 libjxl-0.11.0_1
-libtext-engine-0.1.so.0 text-engine-0.1.1_1
 libvmaf.so.3 vmaf-3.0.0_1
 liblc3.so.1 liblc3-1.0.3_1
 libmimalloc.so.2 mimalloc-2.1.2_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/removed-packages/template b/srcpkgs/removed-packages/template
index 3b41d987f5a..22fa62855d9 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/removed-packages/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/removed-packages/template
@@ -852,6 +852,9 @@ replaces="
  tepl-devel<=6.8.0_2
  tepl<=6.8.0_2
  terminal_markdown_viewer<=1.6.3_4
+ text-engine<=0.1.1_1
+ text-engine-devel<=0.1.1_1
+ text-engine-demo<=0.1.1_1
  tilp2<=1.18_2
  tlsdate<=0.0.13_16
  tomahawk-devel<=0.8.4_25
diff --git a/srcpkgs/text-engine-demo b/srcpkgs/text-engine-demo
deleted file mode 120000
index 272d32cfd5a..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/text-engine-demo
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-text-engine
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/text-engine-devel b/srcpkgs/text-engine-devel
deleted file mode 120000
index 272d32cfd5a..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/text-engine-devel
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-text-engine
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/text-engine/patches/meson-set-soversion.patch b/srcpkgs/text-engine/patches/meson-set-soversion.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6935d0c0b9e..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/text-engine/patches/meson-set-soversion.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-From: Jeremy Bicha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com>
-Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 12:39:45 -0400
-Subject: meson: set soversion
-
-This sets up the symlinked shared library as expected
-
-https://github.com/mjakeman/text-engine/pull/9
----
- src/meson.build | 1 +
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
-
-diff --git a/src/meson.build b/src/meson.build
-index faff7ad..92e0a0b 100644
---- a/src/meson.build
-+++ b/src/meson.build
-@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ text_engine_deps = [
- text_engine_lib = shared_library('text-engine-' + api_version,
-   text_engine_sources,
-   dependencies: text_engine_deps,
-+  soversion: 0,
-   install: true,
- )
- 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/text-engine/template b/srcpkgs/text-engine/template
deleted file mode 100644
index fe201dfd92f..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/text-engine/template
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-# Template file for 'text-engine'
-pkgname=text-engine
-version=0.1.1
-revision=1
-build_style=meson
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config glib-devel"
-makedepends="libadwaita-devel"
-short_desc="Lightweight rich text framework for GTK"
-maintainer="chrysos349 <chrysostom349@gmail.com>"
-license="LGPL-2.1-or-later"
-homepage="https://github.com/mjakeman/text-engine"
-distfiles="https://github.com/mjakeman/text-engine/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=cf540d2c0150a46e8ec81c4532550357707c5d07b6116dc52e3869b1902f515f
-
-text-engine-devel_package() {
-	depends="gtk4-devel ${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
-	short_desc+=" - development files"
-	pkg_install() {
-		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
-		vmove usr/include
-		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
-	}
-}
-
-text-engine-demo_package() {
-	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
-	short_desc+=" - demonstration application"
-	pkg_install() {
-		vmove usr/bin/text-engine-demo
-	}
-}