diff --git a/Config.in.legacy b/Config.in.legacy
index 51f77ad312..ddb6886029 100644
--- a/Config.in.legacy
+++ b/Config.in.legacy
@@ -146,6 +146,13 @@ endif
 
 comment "Legacy options removed in 2026.02"
 
+config BR2_PACKAGE_GCONF
+	bool "gconf package removed"
+	select BR2_LEGACY
+	help
+	  gconf was no longer maintained upstream, so it has been
+	  dropped.
+
 config BR2_PACKAGE_OPENCV3_WITH_FFMPEG
 	bool "opencv3 ffmpeg support removed"
 	select BR2_LEGACY
diff --git a/DEVELOPERS b/DEVELOPERS
index 8671c721b3..264e04c1c2 100644
--- a/DEVELOPERS
+++ b/DEVELOPERS
@@ -1751,7 +1751,6 @@ F:	support/testing/tests/package/test_zfs.py
 N:	Joseph Kogut <joseph.kogut@gmail.com>
 F:	package/at-spi2-core/
 F:	package/earlyoom/
-F:	package/gconf/
 F:	package/libnss/
 F:	package/llama-cpp/
 F:	package/llvm-project/clang/
diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 2f6644271a..2aaf5380cb 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -2188,7 +2188,6 @@ menu "Other"
 	source "package/flatcc/Config.in"
 	source "package/fp16/Config.in"
 	source "package/fxdiv/Config.in"
-	source "package/gconf/Config.in"
 	source "package/gdal/Config.in"
 	source "package/gemmlowp/Config.in"
 	source "package/gflags/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/gconf/Config.in b/package/gconf/Config.in
deleted file mode 100644
index a2371b3f23..0000000000
--- a/package/gconf/Config.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-config BR2_PACKAGE_GCONF
-	bool "gconf"
-	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # dbus, libglib2
-	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # dbus, libglib2
-	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # libglib2
-	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_DBUS
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_DBUS_GLIB
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBGLIB2
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBXML2
-	help
-	  GConf was a system used by the GNOME desktop environment for
-	  storing configuration settings for the desktop and
-	  applications. It is similar to the Windows Registry.
-
-	  https://projects.gnome.org/gconf/
-
-comment "gconf needs a toolchain w/ threads, wchar, dynamic library"
-	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
-	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || !BR2_USE_WCHAR \
-		|| BR2_STATIC_LIBS
diff --git a/package/gconf/gconf.hash b/package/gconf/gconf.hash
deleted file mode 100644
index ad0064fa99..0000000000
--- a/package/gconf/gconf.hash
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-# From https://download.gnome.org/sources/GConf/3.2/GConf-3.2.6.sha256sum
-sha256  1912b91803ab09a5eed34d364bf09fe3a2a9c96751fde03a4e0cfa51a04d784c  GConf-3.2.6.tar.xz
-# License files, locally calculated
-sha256  94b03f1a60a7fd5007149530626a895a6ef5a8b9342abfd56860c5f3956f5d23  COPYING
diff --git a/package/gconf/gconf.mk b/package/gconf/gconf.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index b84fa96082..0000000000
--- a/package/gconf/gconf.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-#
-# gconf
-#
-################################################################################
-
-GCONF_VERSION = 3.2.6
-GCONF_SOURCE = GConf-$(GCONF_VERSION).tar.xz
-GCONF_SITE = https://download.gnome.org/sources/GConf/3.2
-GCONF_CONF_OPTS = --disable-orbit
-GCONF_DEPENDENCIES = dbus dbus-glib libglib2 libxml2 \
-	host-intltool $(TARGET_NLS_DEPENDENCIES)
-GCONF_LICENSE = LGPL-2.0+
-GCONF_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
-
-ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_GOBJECT_INTROSPECTION),y)
-GCONF_CONF_OPTS += --enable-introspection
-GCONF_DEPENDENCIES += gobject-introspection
-else
-GCONF_CONF_OPTS += --disable-introspection
-endif
-
-$(eval $(autotools-package))