diff --git a/databases/Makefile b/databases/Makefile
index 7ae7ba632deb..c1cef3c0f51f 100644
--- a/databases/Makefile
+++ b/databases/Makefile
@@ -368,7 +368,6 @@ SUBDIR+=	py-cassa
 SUBDIR+=	py-cassandra-driver
 SUBDIR+=	py-cdb
 SUBDIR+=	py-ckanclient
-SUBDIR+=	py-cx_Oracle
 SUBDIR+=	py-datapkg
 SUBDIR+=	py-dbf
 SUBDIR+=	py-dbfread
diff --git a/databases/py-cx_Oracle/DESCR b/databases/py-cx_Oracle/DESCR
deleted file mode 100644
index c9b3aea77af0..000000000000
--- a/databases/py-cx_Oracle/DESCR
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Oracle binding for Python
diff --git a/databases/py-cx_Oracle/Makefile b/databases/py-cx_Oracle/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 4a7b5c7c95e1..000000000000
--- a/databases/py-cx_Oracle/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.8 2022/11/09 13:14:07 joerg Exp $
-#
-
-DISTNAME=	cx_Oracle-5.0.2
-PKGNAME=	${PYPKGPREFIX}-${DISTNAME}
-PKGREVISION=	1
-CATEGORIES=	www python
-MASTER_SITES=	${MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE:=cx-oracle/}
-
-MAINTAINER=	pkgsrc-users@NetBSD.org
-HOMEPAGE=	http://cx-oracle.sourceforge.net/
-COMMENT=	Oracle binding for Python
-
-PYDISTUTILSPKG=	yes
-
-.include "../../mk/bsd.prefs.mk"
-
-.if !defined(ORACLE_HOME)
-PKG_FAIL_REASON+=	"You must set ORACLE_HOME to the location of your Oracle installation"
-.elif !exists(${ORACLE_HOME})
-PKG_FAIL_REASON+=	"The location of ORACLE_HOME does not exist"
-.endif
-
-BUILDLINK_PASSTHRU_DIRS+=	${ORACLE_HOME}
-BUILDLINK_PASSTHRU_RPATHDIRS+=	${ORACLE_HOME}
-LDFLAGS+=			-Wl,-rpath,${ORACLE_HOME}/lib
-
-ALL_ENV+=	ORACLE_HOME=${ORACLE_HOME:Q}
-
-.include "../../lang/python/egg.mk"
-.include "../../mk/bsd.pkg.mk"
diff --git a/databases/py-cx_Oracle/PLIST b/databases/py-cx_Oracle/PLIST
deleted file mode 100644
index 9e0bb5865005..000000000000
--- a/databases/py-cx_Oracle/PLIST
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-@comment $NetBSD: PLIST,v 1.1.1.1 2010/02/11 13:13:24 joerg Exp $
-${PYSITELIB}/${EGG_INFODIR}/PKG-INFO
-${PYSITELIB}/${EGG_INFODIR}/SOURCES.txt
-${PYSITELIB}/${EGG_INFODIR}/dependency_links.txt
-${PYSITELIB}/${EGG_INFODIR}/top_level.txt
-${PYSITELIB}/cx_Oracle.so
diff --git a/databases/py-cx_Oracle/distinfo b/databases/py-cx_Oracle/distinfo
deleted file mode 100644
index b8d8e3c99923..000000000000
--- a/databases/py-cx_Oracle/distinfo
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-$NetBSD: distinfo,v 1.4 2021/10/26 10:09:50 nia Exp $
-
-BLAKE2s (cx_Oracle-5.0.2.tar.gz) = 553f8071d576fd2aa40495e25e4bda9362bb260554acb3a2ea3fa6617a706317
-SHA512 (cx_Oracle-5.0.2.tar.gz) = 9d12414f2f37b122cf3c3865668b06f0524e643774d9fb8dfba905bacbfaaeaebedf05630ef45556d3945acee1c63fb665d38eb31634979720f29273070fc3ae
-Size (cx_Oracle-5.0.2.tar.gz) = 183536 bytes
diff --git a/www/Makefile b/www/Makefile
index 2d913826f2b1..02532e3fc499 100644
--- a/www/Makefile
+++ b/www/Makefile
@@ -904,7 +904,6 @@ SUBDIR+=	py-scgi
 SUBDIR+=	py-scrapy
 SUBDIR+=	py-selenium
 SUBDIR+=	py-sigal
-SUBDIR+=	py-simpletal
 SUBDIR+=	py-soupsieve
 SUBDIR+=	py-sparqlwrapper
 SUBDIR+=	py-starlette
diff --git a/www/py-django/MESSAGE b/www/py-django/MESSAGE
index c3ca6c1f78a1..29535ca863a8 100644
--- a/www/py-django/MESSAGE
+++ b/www/py-django/MESSAGE
@@ -6,5 +6,4 @@ Django also requires a database backend.
 For PostgreSQL, install databases/py-psycopg2 package.
 For MySQL/MariaDB, install databases/py-mysqlclient or
 databases/py-mysql-connector package.
-For Oracle, install databases/py-cx_Oracle package.
 ===========================================================================
diff --git a/www/py-django3/MESSAGE b/www/py-django3/MESSAGE
index c6e28a64af82..db4f767acb08 100644
--- a/www/py-django3/MESSAGE
+++ b/www/py-django3/MESSAGE
@@ -6,5 +6,4 @@ Django also requires a database backend.
 For PostgreSQL, install databases/py-psycopg2 package.
 For MySQL/MariaDB, install databases/py-mysqlclient or
 databases/py-mysql-connector package.
-For Oracle, install databases/py-cx_Oracle package.
 ===========================================================================
diff --git a/www/py-django4/MESSAGE b/www/py-django4/MESSAGE
index 906923987f96..44989b8495b5 100644
--- a/www/py-django4/MESSAGE
+++ b/www/py-django4/MESSAGE
@@ -6,5 +6,4 @@ Django also requires a database backend.
 For PostgreSQL, install databases/py-psycopg2 package.
 For MySQL/MariaDB, install databases/py-mysqlclient or
 databases/py-mysql-connector package.
-For Oracle, install databases/py-cx_Oracle package.
 ===========================================================================
diff --git a/www/py-simpletal/DESCR b/www/py-simpletal/DESCR
deleted file mode 100644
index f6e839633c72..000000000000
--- a/www/py-simpletal/DESCR
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-SimpleTAL is a stand alone Python implementation of the TAL, TALES and
-METAL specifications used in Zope to power HTML and XML
-templates. SimpleTAL is an independent implementation of TAL; there are no
-dependencies on Zope nor is any of the Zope work re-used.
diff --git a/www/py-simpletal/Makefile b/www/py-simpletal/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 2416ebac03be..000000000000
--- a/www/py-simpletal/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.15 2022/01/10 18:22:46 wiz Exp $
-
-DISTNAME=	SimpleTAL-4.1
-PKGNAME=	${PYPKGPREFIX}-${DISTNAME}
-PKGREVISION=	2
-CATEGORIES=	www
-MASTER_SITES=	http://www.owlfish.com/software/simpleTAL/downloads/
-
-MAINTAINER=	pkgsrc-users@NetBSD.org
-HOMEPAGE=	https://www.owlfish.com/software/simpleTAL/
-COMMENT=	Stand alone implementation of the Zope TAL
-LICENSE=	modified-bsd
-
-USE_LANGUAGES=	#none
-
-PYTHON_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED=	27
-
-do-test:
-	${PYTHONBIN} ${WRKSRC}/runtests.py
-
-.include "../../lang/python/egg.mk"
-.include "../../mk/bsd.pkg.mk"
diff --git a/www/py-simpletal/PLIST b/www/py-simpletal/PLIST
deleted file mode 100644
index d717fa421f0a..000000000000
--- a/www/py-simpletal/PLIST
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-@comment $NetBSD: PLIST,v 1.6 2022/01/14 17:52:06 wiz Exp $
-${PYSITELIB}/${EGG_INFODIR}
-${PYSITELIB}/simpletal/DummyLogger.py
-${PYSITELIB}/simpletal/DummyLogger.pyc
-${PYSITELIB}/simpletal/DummyLogger.pyo
-${PYSITELIB}/simpletal/FixedHTMLParser.py
-${PYSITELIB}/simpletal/FixedHTMLParser.pyc
-${PYSITELIB}/simpletal/FixedHTMLParser.pyo
-${PYSITELIB}/simpletal/__init__.py
-${PYSITELIB}/simpletal/__init__.pyc
-${PYSITELIB}/simpletal/__init__.pyo
-${PYSITELIB}/simpletal/sgmlentitynames.py
-${PYSITELIB}/simpletal/sgmlentitynames.pyc
-${PYSITELIB}/simpletal/sgmlentitynames.pyo
-${PYSITELIB}/simpletal/simpleElementTree.py
-${PYSITELIB}/simpletal/simpleElementTree.pyc
-${PYSITELIB}/simpletal/simpleElementTree.pyo
-${PYSITELIB}/simpletal/simpleTAL.py
-${PYSITELIB}/simpletal/simpleTAL.pyc
-${PYSITELIB}/simpletal/simpleTAL.pyo
-${PYSITELIB}/simpletal/simpleTALES.py
-${PYSITELIB}/simpletal/simpleTALES.pyc
-${PYSITELIB}/simpletal/simpleTALES.pyo
-${PYSITELIB}/simpletal/simpleTALUtils.py
-${PYSITELIB}/simpletal/simpleTALUtils.pyc
-${PYSITELIB}/simpletal/simpleTALUtils.pyo
diff --git a/www/py-simpletal/distinfo b/www/py-simpletal/distinfo
deleted file mode 100644
index 8a8b574ab1d4..000000000000
--- a/www/py-simpletal/distinfo
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-$NetBSD: distinfo,v 1.4 2021/10/26 11:30:48 nia Exp $
-
-BLAKE2s (SimpleTAL-4.1.tar.gz) = c4cf977f124b2458f68c1166ce66a1ae4f98d6fff0eb5849277e0df07c85def8
-SHA512 (SimpleTAL-4.1.tar.gz) = 30e86a80fa51832f94be833f211884597418564cf03430d51cbe10cf87e853bfa1aef4464ec7d436d6b5eaba3e9db7c1fdbd282251f8871ef673cd2d8ca4d2dd
-Size (SimpleTAL-4.1.tar.gz) = 95813 bytes