diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 51cc6f4a29d..e734266a38f 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1442,7 +1442,6 @@ libcinnamon-control-center.so.1 libcinnamon-control-center-2.4.2_1
 libcvc.so.0 cinnamon-desktop-3.2.0_1
 libnemo-extension.so.1 libnemo-2.0.8_1
 libxshmfence.so.1 libxshmfence-1.1_1
-libgoffice-0.8.so.8 goffice0.8-0.8.13_1
 libgoffice-0.10.so.10 goffice-0.10.9_1
 libc++.so.1 libcxx-3.4_1
 libopenobex.so.2 openobex-1.7.1_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/goffice0.8-devel b/srcpkgs/goffice0.8-devel
deleted file mode 120000
index d82ea3cb99a..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/goffice0.8-devel
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-goffice0.8
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/goffice0.8/INSTALL.msg b/srcpkgs/goffice0.8/INSTALL.msg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..bfbe9fbc277
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/goffice0.8/INSTALL.msg
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+goffice0.8 is no longer provided by Void Linux, and will be fully removed from the repos on 2019/02/18
diff --git a/srcpkgs/goffice0.8/template b/srcpkgs/goffice0.8/template
index c255720e819..aee62a4b80f 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/goffice0.8/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/goffice0.8/template
@@ -1,29 +1,9 @@
 # Template file for 'goffice0.8'
 pkgname=goffice0.8
 version=0.8.17
-revision=5
-wrksrc="goffice-${version}"
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config pcre intltool glib-devel libtool automake gtk-doc gettext-devel"
-makedepends="GConf-devel gtk+-devel librsvg-devel libgsf-devel libxml2-devel pcre-devel cairo-devel"
-build_style="gnu-configure"
-maintainer="Philipp Hirsch <itself@hanspolo.net>"
-license="GPL-2"
-homepage="http://freecode.com/projects/${pkgname}"
-distfiles="${GNOME_SITE}/goffice/${version%.*}/goffice-${version}.tar.xz"
-checksum=165070beb67b84580afe80a8a100b674a81d553ab791acd72ac0c655f4fadb15
-short_desc="Library of document-centric objects and utilities (0.8.x)"
-
-pre_configure() {
-	autoreconf -fi
-}
-
-goffice0.8-devel_package() {
-	short_desc+=" - development files"
-	depends="libgsf-devel gtk+-devel libxml2-devel ${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
-	pkg_install() {
-		vmove usr/include
-		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
-		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
-		vmove usr/share/gtk-doc
-	}
-}
+revision=6
+noarch=yes
+build_style=meta
+short_desc="Library of document-centric objects and utilities (0.8.x) (removed package)"
+license="metapackage"
+homepage="http://freecode.com/projects/goffice0.8"