diff --git a/srcpkgs/phonon-backend-gstreamer/INSTALL.msg b/srcpkgs/phonon-backend-gstreamer/INSTALL.msg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8d69385a68f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/phonon-backend-gstreamer/INSTALL.msg
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+phonon-backend-gstreamer is no longer provided by Void Linux, and will be fully removed from the repos on 2019-07-10
diff --git a/srcpkgs/phonon-backend-gstreamer/template b/srcpkgs/phonon-backend-gstreamer/template
index 2db6fc6a804..18e1cf52fc7 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/phonon-backend-gstreamer/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/phonon-backend-gstreamer/template
@@ -1,22 +1,9 @@
 # Template file for 'phonon-backend-gstreamer'
 pkgname=phonon-backend-gstreamer
 version=4.9.0
-revision=1
-wrksrc="phonon-gstreamer-${version}"
-lib32disabled=yes
-build_style=cmake
-hostmakedepends="automoc4 pkg-config extra-cmake-modules"
-makedepends="MesaLib-devel qt-devel phonon-devel gst-plugins-base1-devel gst-plugins-good1"
-depends="desktop-file-utils hicolor-icon-theme gst-plugins-good1 gst-libav"
-provides="phonon-backend-0_1"
-replaces="phonon-backend>=0"
-short_desc="Phonon GStreamer backend"
-maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.org>"
-license="LGPL-2.1"
+revision=2
+archs=noarch
+build_style=meta
+short_desc="Phonon GStreamer backend (removed package)"
+license="BSD-2-Clause"
 homepage="http://phonon.kde.org/"
-distfiles="http://download.kde.org/stable/phonon/${pkgname}/${version}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.xz"
-checksum=cec3e5ece1261d344b68363ef0606ebf49772628ba94bb55b0c0d18773b885f1
-
-if [ -n "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
-	hostmakedepends+=" qt-host-tools phonon-devel"
-fi