diff --git a/community/python-blosc/PKGBUILD b/community/python-blosc/PKGBUILD
deleted file mode 100644
index b01ed9d41..000000000
--- a/community/python-blosc/PKGBUILD
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-# $Id$
-# Maintainer: Andrzej Giniewicz <gginiu@gmail.com>
-
-# ALARM: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
-#  - patch to fix build on AArch64
-
-pkgbase=python-blosc
-pkgname=('python2-blosc' 'python-blosc')
-pkgver=1.5.1
-pkgrel=2
-pkgdesc="A Python wrapper for the extremely fast Blosc compression library"
-arch=('x86_64')
-url="http://python-blosc.blosc.org/"
-license=('MIT')
-makedepends=('python-setuptools' 'python2-setuptools' 'blosc')
-source=("https://github.com/Blosc/python-blosc/archive/v${pkgver}.tar.gz"
-        'python-blosc-alt-arch.patch')
-md5sums=('36efec20fac80cb44b1f9c907a9d98c4'
-         'fabfde4dbf9e796ee620416ebd13b8da')
-
-prepare() {
-  cd "$srcdir/${pkgbase}-${pkgver}"
-  patch -p1 -i ../python-blosc-alt-arch.patch
-
-  cd "$srcdir"
-  cp -a ${pkgbase}-${pkgver} ${pkgbase}-py2-${pkgver}
-  cd ${pkgbase}-py2-${pkgver}
-
-  sed -e "s|#![ ]*/usr/bin/python$|#!/usr/bin/python2|" \
-      -e "s|#![ ]*/usr/bin/env python$|#!/usr/bin/env python2|" \
-      -e "s|#![ ]*/bin/env python$|#!/usr/bin/env python2|" \
-      -i $(find . -name '*.py')
-}
-
-build() {
-  msg "Building Python2"
-  cd "$srcdir"/${pkgbase}-py2-${pkgver}
-  python2 setup.py build_ext --inplace --blosc=/usr
-  python2 setup.py build
-
-  msg "Building Python3"
-  cd "$srcdir"/${pkgbase}-${pkgver}
-  python setup.py build_ext --inplace --blosc=/usr
-  python setup.py build
-}
-
-package_python2-blosc() {
-  depends=('python2' 'blosc')
-
-  cd "$srcdir"/${pkgbase}-py2-${pkgver}
-
-  python2 setup.py install --skip-build --root="$pkgdir" --optimize=1
-
-  install -Dm644 LICENSES/PYTHON-BLOSC.txt "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE
-}
-
-package_python-blosc() {
-  depends=('python' 'blosc')
-
-  cd "$srcdir"/${pkgbase}-${pkgver}
-
-  python setup.py install --skip-build --root="$pkgdir" --optimize=1
-
-  install -Dm644 LICENSES/PYTHON-BLOSC.txt "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE
-}
-
diff --git a/community/python-blosc/python-blosc-alt-arch.patch b/community/python-blosc/python-blosc-alt-arch.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 3a7509f77..000000000
--- a/community/python-blosc/python-blosc-alt-arch.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-diff -up python-blosc-1.4.1/setup.py.alt-arch python-blosc-1.4.1/setup.py
---- python-blosc-1.4.1/setup.py.alt-arch	2017-01-05 15:53:42.581675095 +0100
-+++ python-blosc-1.4.1/setup.py	2017-01-05 15:54:06.361675095 +0100
-@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ import sys
- from setuptools import Extension
- from setuptools import setup
- from glob import glob
--import cpuinfo
- 
- ########### Check versions ##########
- 
-@@ -93,26 +93,6 @@ else:
-     inc_dirs += glob('c-blosc/internal-complibs/zstd*/common')
-     def_macros += [('HAVE_LZ4', 1), ('HAVE_SNAPPY', 1), ('HAVE_ZLIB', 1), ('HAVE_ZSTD', 1)]
- 
--    # Guess SSE2 or AVX2 capabilities
--    cpu_info = cpuinfo.get_cpu_info()
--    # SSE2
--    if 'sse2' in cpu_info['flags']:
--        print('SSE2 detected')
--        CFLAGS.append('-DSHUFFLE_SSE2_ENABLED')
--        sources += [f for f in glob('c-blosc/blosc/*.c') if 'sse2' in f]
--        if os.name == 'posix':
--            CFLAGS.append('-msse2')
--        elif os.name == 'nt':
--            def_macros += [('__SSE2__', 1)]
--    # AVX2
--    if 'avx2' in cpu_info['flags']:
--        print('AVX2 detected')
--        CFLAGS.append('-DSHUFFLE_AVX2_ENABLED')
--        sources += [f for f in glob('c-blosc/blosc/*.c') if 'avx2' in f]
--        if os.name == 'posix':
--            CFLAGS.append('-mavx2')
--        elif os.name == 'nt':
--            def_macros += [('__AVX2__', 1)]
- 
- classifiers = """\
- Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable