diff --git a/lang/lua/lua-lzlib/Makefile b/lang/lua/lua-lzlib/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index bf84a51107..0000000000
--- a/lang/lua/lua-lzlib/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2015 OpenWrt.org
-#
-# This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
-# See /LICENSE for more information.
-#
-
-include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
-
-PKG_NAME:=lua-lzlib
-PKG_VERSION:=0.4.3
-PKG_RELEASE:=1
-PKG_MAINTAINER:=Dirk Chang <dirk@kooiot.com>
-PKG_LICENSE:=MIT
-
-PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
-PKG_MIRROR_HASH:=b6ef5e3f04b7f2137b39931a175ee802489a2486e70537770919bcccca10e723
-PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://github.com/LuaDist/lzlib.git
-PKG_SOURCE_PROTO:=git
-PKG_SOURCE_VERSION:=79329a07d8f79c19eadd7ea2752b4c4e1574b015
-PKG_SOURCE_SUBDIR:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION)
-
-include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
-
-define Package/lua-lzlib
-  SUBMENU:=Lua
-  SECTION:=lang
-  CATEGORY:=Languages
-  TITLE:=Lua zlib binding
-  URL:=http://github.com/LuaDist/lzlib
-  DEPENDS:= +lua +zlib
-endef
-
-define Package/lua-lzlib/description
-	A library to access zlib library functions and also to read/write gzip files using an interface similar to the base io package. 
-endef
-
-MAKE_FLAGS += \
-	LUA="$(STAGING_DIR)/usr" \
-	OFLAGS="$(TARGET_CFLAGS)" \
-
-define Package/lua-lzlib/install
-	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/usr/lib/lua
-	$(INSTALL_BIN) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/zlib.so $(1)/usr/lib/lua/
-
-	$(INSTALL_DATA) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/gzip.lua $(1)/usr/lib/lua/
-endef
-
-$(eval $(call BuildPackage,lua-lzlib))
diff --git a/lang/lua/lua-lzlib/patches/001-allow_optim_flags.patch b/lang/lua/lua-lzlib/patches/001-allow_optim_flags.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 78f981d237..0000000000
--- a/lang/lua/lua-lzlib/patches/001-allow_optim_flags.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- a/Makefile
-+++ b/Makefile
-@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ LUABIN= $(LUA)/bin
- ZLIB=../zlib-1.2.3
- 
- # no need to change anything below here
--CFLAGS= $(INCS) $(DEFS) $(WARN) -O0 -fPIC
-+CFLAGS= $(INCS) $(DEFS) $(WARN) $(OFLAGS) -fPIC
-+OFLAGS= -O0
- WARN= -g -Werror -Wall -pedantic #-ansi
- INCS= -I$(LUAINC) -I$(ZLIB)
- LIBS= -L$(ZLIB) -lz -L$(LUALIB) -L$(LUABIN) #-llua51