diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 71ba31208d..b2c9261ce5 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -101,7 +101,6 @@ F: GNUmakefile
 F: Makefile
 F: config/
 F: mk/
-F: pkg/
 F: buildtools/auto-config-h.sh
 F: buildtools/gen-build-mk.sh
 F: buildtools/gen-config-h.sh
diff --git a/pkg/dpdk.spec b/pkg/dpdk.spec
deleted file mode 100644
index b98bd916d8..0000000000
--- a/pkg/dpdk.spec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,96 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
-# Copyright 2014 6WIND S.A.
-
-Name: dpdk
-Version: 18.11
-Release: 1
-Packager: packaging@6wind.com
-URL: http://dpdk.org
-Source: http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/snapshot/dpdk-%{version}.tar.gz
-
-Summary: Data Plane Development Kit core
-Group: System Environment/Libraries
-License: BSD and LGPLv2 and GPLv2
-
-ExclusiveArch: i686 x86_64 aarch64
-%ifarch aarch64
-%global machine armv8a
-%global target arm64-%{machine}-linuxapp-gcc
-%global config arm64-%{machine}-linuxapp-gcc
-%else
-%global machine default
-%global target %{_arch}-%{machine}-linuxapp-gcc
-%global config %{_arch}-native-linuxapp-gcc
-%endif
-
-BuildRequires: kernel-devel, kernel-headers, libpcap-devel
-BuildRequires: doxygen, python-sphinx, inkscape
-BuildRequires: texlive-collection-latexextra
-
-%description
-DPDK core includes kernel modules, core libraries and tools.
-testpmd application allows to test fast packet processing environments
-on x86 platforms. For instance, it can be used to check that environment
-can support fast path applications such as 6WINDGate, pktgen, rumptcpip, etc.
-More libraries are available as extensions in other packages.
-
-%package devel
-Summary: Data Plane Development Kit for development
-Requires: %{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
-%description devel
-DPDK devel is a set of makefiles, headers and examples
-for fast packet processing on x86 platforms.
-
-%package doc
-Summary: Data Plane Development Kit API documentation
-BuildArch: noarch
-%description doc
-DPDK doc is divided in two parts: API details in doxygen HTML format
-and guides in sphinx HTML/PDF formats.
-
-%prep
-%setup -q
-
-%build
-make O=%{target} T=%{config} config
-sed -ri 's,(RTE_MACHINE=).*,\1%{machine},' %{target}/.config
-sed -ri 's,(RTE_APP_TEST=).*,\1n,'         %{target}/.config
-sed -ri 's,(RTE_BUILD_SHARED_LIB=).*,\1y,' %{target}/.config
-sed -ri 's,(RTE_NEXT_ABI=).*,\1n,'         %{target}/.config
-sed -ri 's,(LIBRTE_VHOST=).*,\1y,'         %{target}/.config
-sed -ri 's,(LIBRTE_PMD_PCAP=).*,\1y,'      %{target}/.config
-make O=%{target} %{?_smp_mflags}
-make O=%{target} doc
-
-%install
-rm -rf %{buildroot}
-make install O=%{target} DESTDIR=%{buildroot} \
-	prefix=%{_prefix} bindir=%{_bindir} sbindir=%{_sbindir} \
-	includedir=%{_includedir}/dpdk libdir=%{_libdir} \
-	datadir=%{_datadir}/dpdk docdir=%{_docdir}/dpdk
-
-%files
-%dir %{_datadir}/dpdk
-%{_datadir}/dpdk/usertools
-/lib/modules/%(uname -r)/extra/*
-%{_sbindir}/*
-%{_bindir}/*
-%{_libdir}/*
-
-%files devel
-%{_includedir}/dpdk
-%{_datadir}/dpdk/mk
-%{_datadir}/dpdk/buildtools
-%{_datadir}/dpdk/%{target}
-%{_datadir}/dpdk/examples
-
-%files doc
-%doc %{_docdir}/dpdk
-
-%post
-/sbin/ldconfig
-/sbin/depmod
-
-%postun
-/sbin/ldconfig
-/sbin/depmod