diff --git a/srcpkgs/simple-obfs/INSTALL.msg b/srcpkgs/simple-obfs/INSTALL.msg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6af58a215fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/simple-obfs/INSTALL.msg
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+simple-obfs is no longer provided by Void Linux, and will be fully removed from the repos on 2019/06/08
diff --git a/srcpkgs/simple-obfs/patches/211.patch b/srcpkgs/simple-obfs/patches/211.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index c7bfb954b65..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/simple-obfs/patches/211.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-From 117dd05632cbc05ad54d5aa5da949835e09ef0f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Zane <ticonci@users.noreply.github.com>
-Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 11:03:24 +0800
-Subject: [PATCH] fix compile warning with GCC8
-
----
- src/netutils.c | 3 ++-
- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/src/netutils.c b/src/netutils.c
-index 66d0a7c..b7fcb64 100644
---- a/src/netutils.c
-+++ b/src/netutils.c
-@@ -85,7 +85,8 @@ setinterface(int socket_fd, const char *interface_name)
- {
-     struct ifreq interface;
-     memset(&interface, 0, sizeof(struct ifreq));
--    strncpy(interface.ifr_name, interface_name, IFNAMSIZ);
-+    strncpy(interface.ifr_name, interface_name, IFNAMSIZ - 1);
-+    interface.ifr_name[IFNAMSIZ - 1] = '\0';
-     int res = setsockopt(socket_fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BINDTODEVICE, &interface,
-                          sizeof(struct ifreq));
-     return res;
diff --git a/srcpkgs/simple-obfs/template b/srcpkgs/simple-obfs/template
index 32129760298..4330b95f559 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/simple-obfs/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/simple-obfs/template
@@ -1,26 +1,9 @@
 # Template file for 'simple-obfs'
 pkgname=simple-obfs
 version=0.0.5
-revision=1
-build_style=gnu-configure
-hostmakedepends="automake libtool pkg-config asciidoc xmlto"
-makedepends="libev-devel"
-short_desc="Simple obfusacting tool designed as plugin server of shadowsocks"
-maintainer="whoami <whoami@systemli.org>"
-license="GPL-3.0-or-later"
+revision=2
+archs=noarch
+build_style=meta
+short_desc="Simple obfusacting tool designed as plugin server of shadowsocks (removed package)"
+license="metapackage"
 homepage="https://github.com/shadowsocks/simple-obfs"
-distfiles="${homepage}/archive/v${version}.tar.gz
- https://github.com/shadowsocks/libcork/archive/f02984545061c924808e4b9ea7cc6749a41f1979.tar.gz"
-checksum="0de9b551b67ec82d0af9d09bcb74c9e8d047f0082ae07db8e4f5f3defeb2ce4c
- 0f1ede7bd23672718d1d10adbe9e4028515d029585b93092d7199e51a40b3fe4"
-patch_args="-Np1"
-_version_libcork=f02984545061c924808e4b9ea7cc6749a41f1979
-
-post_extract() {
-	rmdir libcork
-	mv ../libcork-${_version_libcork} libcork
-}
-
-pre_configure() {
-	autoreconf -fi
-}