diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
index c17ebb8604..3fceb6701b 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
@@ -616,7 +616,6 @@ RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-mako = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksandr-k
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-markdown = "Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-markupsafe = "Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-more-itertools = "Tim Orling <tim.orling@konsulko.com>"
-RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-nose = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksandr-kravchuk.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-numpy = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksandr-kravchuk.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-packaging = "Tim Orling <tim.orling@konsulko.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-pathlib2 = "Tim Orling <tim.orling@konsulko.com>"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-nose.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-nose.inc
deleted file mode 100644
index 08c380d637..0000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-nose.inc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-SUMMARY = "Extends Python unittest to make testing easier"
-HOMEPAGE = "http://readthedocs.org/docs/nose/"
-DESCRIPTION = "nose extends the test loading and running features of unittest, \
-making it easier to write, find and run tests."
-SECTION = "devel/python"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://lgpl.txt;md5=a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343"
-
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "4d3ad0ff07b61373d2cefc89c5d0b20b"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "f1bffef9cbc82628f6e7d7b40d7e255aefaa1adb6a1b1d26c69a8b79e6208a98"
-
-inherit pypi
-
-RDEPENDS:${PN} = "\
-  ${PYTHON_PN}-unittest \
-  "
-
-BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-nose_1.3.7.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-nose_1.3.7.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index 13dbf96179..0000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-nose_1.3.7.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-inherit setuptools3
-require python-nose.inc