diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index b0f64d17dfc..2331a9a95cd 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1315,7 +1315,6 @@ libsolarus-gui.so solarus-1.5.3_1
 libplank.so.1 plank-0.11.0_1
 libssh.so.4 libssh-0.5.4_1
 libqjson.so.0 qjson-0.8.1_1
-libqimageblitz.so.4 qimageblitz-0.0.6_1
 libxcb-render-util.so.0 xcb-util-renderutil-0.3.8_1
 libKPimGAPIContacts.so.5 libkgapi-17.12.3_1
 libKPimGAPIBlogger.so.5 libkgapi-17.12.3_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/qimageblitz-devel b/srcpkgs/qimageblitz-devel
deleted file mode 120000
index 905191ff102..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/qimageblitz-devel
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-qimageblitz
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/qimageblitz/INSTALL.msg b/srcpkgs/qimageblitz/INSTALL.msg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..425ec1a5f7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/qimageblitz/INSTALL.msg
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+qimageblitz is no longer provided by Void Linux, and will be fully removed from the repos on 2019/03/20
diff --git a/srcpkgs/qimageblitz/template b/srcpkgs/qimageblitz/template
index 152a9fb6af4..9dfd63f1aa8 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/qimageblitz/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/qimageblitz/template
@@ -1,23 +1,9 @@
 # Template file for 'qimageblitz'
 pkgname=qimageblitz
 version=0.0.6
-revision=3
-build_style=cmake
-hostmakedepends="automoc4 pkg-config qt-host-tools qt-qmake"
-makedepends="qt-devel"
-short_desc="A graphical effect and filter library for KDE"
-maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
-license="BSD-2-Clause"
+revision=4
+noarch=yes
+build_style=meta
+short_desc="A graphical effect and filter library for KDE (removed package)"
+license="metapackage"
 homepage="https://www.kde.org"
-distfiles="${KDE_SITE}/qimageblitz/qimageblitz-${version}.tar.bz2"
-checksum=9f102269dec50641440e23a449df215a0db9efef9a3969939d618c5e78a5010f
-
-qimageblitz-devel_package() {
-	short_desc+=" - development files"
-	depends="qt-devel ${sourcepkg}-${version}_${revision}"
-	pkg_install() {
-		vmove usr/include
-		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
-		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
-	}
-}