diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
index 4ca5430a94..2d1f9fdec5 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
@@ -328,7 +328,6 @@ RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-libdrm = "Otavio Salvador <otavio.salvador@ossystems.com.br
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-libedit = "Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-libepoxy = "Anuj Mittal <anuj.mittal@intel.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-liberation-fonts = "Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>"
-RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-liberror-perl = "Tim Orling <tim.orling@konsulko.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-libevdev = "Anuj Mittal <anuj.mittal@intel.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-libevent = "Anuj Mittal <anuj.mittal@intel.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-libexif = "Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>"
diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
index 0192146dbd..84f6764443 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ PTESTS_FAST = "\
     json-c \
     json-glib \
     libconvert-asn1-perl \
-    liberror-perl \
     libgpg-error\
     libnl \
     libpcre \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/liberror-perl_0.17029.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/liberror-perl_0.17029.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index e54bb11ccd..0000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/liberror-perl_0.17029.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-SUMMARY = "Error - Error/exception handling in an OO-ish way"
-DESCRIPTION = "The Error package provides two interfaces. Firstly \
-Error provides a procedural interface to exception handling. \
-Secondly Error is a base class for errors/exceptions that can \
-either be thrown, for subsequent catch, or can simply be recorded."
-HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/shlomif/perl-error.pm"
-SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0-or-later"
-
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=8f3499d09ee74a050c0319391ff9d100"
-
-
-DEPENDS += "perl"
-
-RDEPENDS:${PN} += " \
-    perl-module-carp \
-    perl-module-exporter \
-    perl-module-scalar-util \
-    perl-module-overload \
-    perl-module-strict \
-    perl-module-vars \
-    perl-module-warnings \
-"
-
-RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += " \
-    perl-module-base \
-    perl-module-file-spec \
-    perl-module-io-handle \
-    perl-module-ipc-open3 \
-    perl-module-lib \
-    perl-module-test-more \
-"
-
-SRC_URI = "http://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/S/SH/SHLOMIF/Error-${PV}.tar.gz"
-
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "6732b1c6207e4a9a3e2987c88368039a"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "1a23f7913032aed6d4b68321373a3899ca66590f4727391a091ec19c95bf7adc"
-
-S = "${WORKDIR}/Error-${PV}"
-
-inherit cpan ptest-perl
-
-do_install:prepend() {
-	# test requires "-T" (taint) command line option
-	rm -rf ${B}/t/pod-coverage.t
-}
-
-BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"