diff --git a/srcpkgs/wireguard-go/INSTALL.msg b/srcpkgs/wireguard-go/INSTALL.msg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..31fb05feaed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/wireguard-go/INSTALL.msg
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+wireguard-go is no longer provided by Void Linux, and will be fully removed from the repos on 2020-02-01.
+
+Use boringtun as an alternative userspace implementation for Wireguard.
diff --git a/srcpkgs/wireguard-go/template b/srcpkgs/wireguard-go/template
index e52d31feee3..434e43ada8d 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/wireguard-go/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/wireguard-go/template
@@ -1,18 +1,10 @@
 # Template file for 'wireguard-go'
 pkgname=wireguard-go
 version=0.0.20181222
-revision=1
-build_style=go
-go_import_path="git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-go"
-hostmakedepends="git"
-depends="wireguard-tools"
-short_desc="Implementation of WireGuard in Go"
+revision=2
+archs=noarch
+build_style=meta
+short_desc="Implementation of WireGuard in Go (removed package)"
 maintainer="lemmi <lemmi@nerd2nerd.org>"
-license="GPL-2"
+license="BSD-2-Clause" # Suppress xlint warning: vlicense
 homepage="https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-go/about/"
-distfiles="https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-go/snapshot/wireguard-go-${version}.tar.xz"
-checksum=53dc611524c40cddd242c972a9559f9793e128a0ce772483f12a2704c9f48c54
-
-pre_build() {
-	rm donotuseon_linux.go
-}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/wireguard-go/update b/srcpkgs/wireguard-go/update
deleted file mode 100644
index 70ee5e56716..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/wireguard-go/update
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-site='https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-go/'
-pattern='wireguard-go-\K[\d.]*\d'