diff --git a/patches/pom.xml b/patches/pom.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6457c7a7015..00000000000
--- a/patches/pom.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,84 +0,0 @@
-<!-- Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor 
-  license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional 
-  information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to 
-  you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use 
-  this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of 
-  the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required 
-  by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the 
-  License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS 
-  OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific 
-  language governing permissions and limitations under the License. -->
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
-  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-  <artifactId>cloud-patches</artifactId>
-  <name>Apache CloudStack SystemVM Patches</name>
-  <packaging>pom</packaging>
-  <parent>
-    <groupId>org.apache.cloudstack</groupId>
-    <artifactId>cloudstack</artifactId>
-    <version>4.3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
-  </parent>
-  <build>
-    <defaultGoal>install</defaultGoal>
-    <plugins>
-      <plugin>
-        <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
-        <version>1.7</version>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <id>build-cloud-scripts</id>
-            <phase>package</phase>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>run</goal>
-            </goals>
-            <configuration>
-              <target>
-                <mkdir dir="${basedir}/target/build-patch" />
-                <mkdir dir="${basedir}/target/build-patch/usr/sbin" />
-                <copy overwrite="true" todir="${basedir}/target/build-patch">
-                  <fileset dir="${basedir}/systemvm/debian/config/">
-                    <include name="**/*" />
-                  </fileset>
-                  <fileset dir="${basedir}/systemvm/debian/vpn/">
-                    <include name="**/*" />
-                  </fileset>
-                  <fileset dir="${basedir}/systemvm/debian/xe/">
-                    <include name="**/*" />
-                    <exclude name="**/xe-*" />
-                    <exclude name="**/xen-*" />
-                  </fileset>
-                </copy>
-                <copy overwrite="true" todir="${basedir}/target/build-patch/usr/sbin/">
-                  <fileset dir="${basedir}/systemvm/debian/xe/">
-                    <include name="**/xe-*" />
-                    <include name="**/xen-*" />
-                  </fileset>
-                </copy>
-                <tar destfile="${basedir}/target/patch.tar">
-                  <tarfileset dir="${basedir}/target/build-patch/"
-                    filemode="755">
-                    <include name="**/*" />
-                    <exclude name="**/.classpath" />
-                    <exclude name="**/log**"/>
-                    <exclude name="**/logrotate.d"/>
-                    <exclude name="**/.project" />
-                    <exclude name="**/wscript_build" />
-                  </tarfileset>
-                  <tarfileset dir="${basedir}/target/build-patch/"
-                   filemode="644">
-                   <include name="**/log**"/>
-                   <include name="**/logrotate.d/**"/>
-                  </tarfileset>
-                </tar>
-                <gzip destfile="${basedir}/target/cloud-scripts.tgz" src="${basedir}/target/patch.tar" />
-                <delete dir="${basedir}/target/build-patch" />
-                <delete file="${basedir}/target/patch.tar" />
-              </target>
-            </configuration>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
-    </plugins>
-  </build>
-</project>
diff --git a/services/secondary-storage/pom.xml b/services/secondary-storage/pom.xml
index 9fe8da3299f..2015ce01b3b 100644
--- a/services/secondary-storage/pom.xml
+++ b/services/secondary-storage/pom.xml
@@ -48,12 +48,6 @@
       <artifactId>cloud-agent</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.cloudstack</groupId>
-      <artifactId>cloud-patches</artifactId>
-      <version>${project.version}</version>
-      <type>pom</type>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.cloudstack</groupId>
       <artifactId>cloud-server</artifactId>