diff --git a/Config.in.legacy b/Config.in.legacy
index 053f5c7c77..cf8e57bc4d 100644
--- a/Config.in.legacy
+++ b/Config.in.legacy
@@ -146,6 +146,13 @@ endif
 
 comment "Legacy options removed in 2025.02.11"
 
+config BR2_PACKAGE_CVS
+	bool "cvs has been removed"
+	select BR2_LEGACY
+	help
+	  The cvs project was no longer maintained upstream, broken
+	  with GCC 14.x, so it was removed.
+
 config BR2_PACKAGE_CRIU
 	bool "criu has been removed"
 	select BR2_LEGACY
diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 2dd7d4ec3e..917b662a71 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -174,7 +174,6 @@ menu "Development tools"
 	source "package/cppunit/Config.in"
 	source "package/cukinia/Config.in"
 	source "package/cunit/Config.in"
-	source "package/cvs/Config.in"
 	source "package/cxxtest/Config.in"
 	source "package/diffutils/Config.in"
 	source "package/dos2unix/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/cvs/Config.in b/package/cvs/Config.in
deleted file mode 100644
index e8f0606ecc..0000000000
--- a/package/cvs/Config.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-config BR2_PACKAGE_CVS
-	bool "cvs"
-	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR
-	# needs fork()
-	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_NCURSES
-	help
-	  Concurrent Versions System - source code revision control
-	  tools.
-
-	  http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/
-
-if BR2_PACKAGE_CVS
-
-config BR2_PACKAGE_CVS_SERVER
-	bool "server support"
-	help
-	  Enable cvs server code
-
-endif
-
-comment "cvs needs a toolchain w/ wchar"
-	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
-	depends on !BR2_USE_WCHAR
diff --git a/package/cvs/cvs.hash b/package/cvs/cvs.hash
deleted file mode 100644
index 7b03a552d0..0000000000
--- a/package/cvs/cvs.hash
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-# From http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20141023T043132Z/pool/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.12.13-12%2Bsqueeze1.dsc
-sha256  b5961c2476b996e5758fa5e22b60af085adca41164cac0d8f68a1d3b49d4e4f1  cvs_1.12.13.orig.tar.gz
-sha256  d52a9232d9cf36302a150d782fc7e5b6f92f8115505ae8a7dc6acfc83e809d2f  cvs_1.12.13-12+squeeze1.diff.gz
-
-# Hash for license files, locally computed
-sha256  569c5b876327d899cf444b2277fe910128a38ca71d90755fe4125dd44f8ece02  COPYING
-sha256  da0e282103fb508894e78db519aab255e36971ce0bc87de585e3b05014b83b1e  COPYING.LIB
-sha256  ee9a2fbdb626c0ac57fd8e569f357eb2e6d6c80cc6f41efa8bd126d5ea589d72  lib/glob-libc.h
diff --git a/package/cvs/cvs.mk b/package/cvs/cvs.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index cf9127fc3a..0000000000
--- a/package/cvs/cvs.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-#
-# cvs
-#
-################################################################################
-
-CVS_VERSION = 1.12.13
-CVS_SOURCE = cvs_$(CVS_VERSION).orig.tar.gz
-CVS_PATCH = cvs_$(CVS_VERSION)-12+squeeze1.diff.gz
-CVS_SITE = http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20141023T043132Z/pool/main/c/cvs
-CVS_LICENSE = GPL-1.0+, LGPL-2.0+, LGPL-2.1+ (glob)
-CVS_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING COPYING.LIB lib/glob-libc.h
-CVS_CPE_ID_VENDOR = gnu
-CVS_SELINUX_MODULES = apache cvs
-CVS_DEPENDENCIES = ncurses
-
-CVS_CONF_ENV = \
-	ac_cv_func_working_mktime=yes \
-	cvs_cv_func_printf_ptr=yes
-
-CVS_CONF_OPTS = \
-	--disable-old-info-format-support \
-	--with-editor=/bin/vi
-ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_CVS_SERVER),y)
-CVS_CONF_OPTS += --enable-server
-else
-CVS_CONF_OPTS += --disable-server
-endif
-ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_ZLIB),y)
-CVS_CONF_OPTS += --with-external-zlib
-endif
-
-define CVS_BZIP_UNPACK
-	$(BZCAT) $(@D)/cvs-$(CVS_VERSION).tar.bz2 | $(TAR) -C $(BUILD_DIR) $(TAR_OPTIONS) -
-	rm -f $(@D)/cvs-$(CVS_VERSION).tar.bz2
-endef
-
-CVS_POST_PATCH_HOOKS += CVS_BZIP_UNPACK
-
-ifneq ($(CVS_PATCH),)
-define CVS_DEBIAN_PATCHES
-	if [ -d $(@D)/debian/patches ]; then \
-		(cd $(@D)/debian/patches && for i in *; \
-		 do $(SED) 's,^\+\+\+ .*cvs-$(CVS_VERSION)/,+++ cvs-$(CVS_VERSION)/,' $$i; \
-		 done; \
-		); \
-		$(APPLY_PATCHES) $(@D) $(@D)/debian/patches \*; \
-	fi
-endef
-endif
-
-CVS_POST_PATCH_HOOKS += CVS_DEBIAN_PATCHES
-
-define CVS_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS
-	$(INSTALL) -D $(@D)/src/cvs $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/bin/cvs
-endef
-
-$(eval $(autotools-package))