diff --git a/ossp-uuid.template b/ossp-uuid.template
deleted file mode 100644
index e52617d00c..0000000000
--- a/ossp-uuid.template
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-# install OSSP uuid (http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/)
-# see https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/pull/255 for more details
-	&& wget -O uuid.tar.gz "https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/uuid-$OSSP_UUID_VERSION.tar.gz" \
-	&& echo "$OSSP_UUID_SHA256 *uuid.tar.gz" | sha256sum -c - \
-	&& mkdir -p /usr/src/ossp-uuid \
-	&& tar \
-		--extract \
-		--file uuid.tar.gz \
-		--directory /usr/src/ossp-uuid \
-		--strip-components 1 \
-	&& rm uuid.tar.gz \
-	&& ( \
-		cd /usr/src/ossp-uuid \
-		&& gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)" \
-# explicitly update autoconf config.guess and config.sub so they support more arches/libcs
-		&& wget -O config.guess 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/plain/config.guess?id=7d3d27baf8107b630586c962c057e22149653deb' \
-		&& wget -O config.sub 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/plain/config.sub?id=7d3d27baf8107b630586c962c057e22149653deb' \
-		&& ./configure \
-			--build="$gnuArch" \
-			--prefix=/usr/local \
-		&& make -j "$(nproc)" \
-		&& make install \
-	) \
-	&& rm -rf /usr/src/ossp-uuid \
-	\
diff --git a/update.sh b/update.sh
index 9806b14d89..28aca4212e 100755
--- a/update.sh
+++ b/update.sh
@@ -28,10 +28,6 @@ declare -A alpineVersion=(
 
 packagesBase='http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/dists/'
 
-# https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/?C=M;O=D
-osspUuidVersion='1.6.2'
-osspUuidHash='11a615225baa5f8bb686824423f50e4427acd3f70d394765bdff32801f0fd5b0'
-
 declare -A suitePackageList=() suiteArches=()
 travisEnv=
 for version in "${versions[@]}"; do