diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt
index 4ceb3fd772..6c68d7aa67 100644
--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt
@@ -464,9 +464,8 @@ The format of this file is one line for each file for which to check the
 hash, each line with the following three fields separated by two spaces:
 
 * the type of hash, one of:
-** +md5+, +sha1+, +sha224+, +sha256+, +sha384+, +sha512+, +none+
+** +md5+, +sha1+, +sha224+, +sha256+, +sha384+, +sha512+
 * the hash of the file:
-** for +none+, one or more non-space chars, usually just the string +xxx+
 ** for +md5+, 32 hexadecimal characters
 ** for +sha1+, 40 hexadecimal characters
 ** for +sha224+, 56 hexadecimal characters
@@ -500,9 +499,6 @@ target run. For a package with multiple versions (like Qt5),
 create the hash file in a subdirectory +<packageversion>+ of that package
 (see also xref:patch-apply-order[]).
 
-The +none+ hash type is reserved to those archives downloaded from a
-repository, like a 'git clone', a 'subversion checkout'...
-
 The example below defines a +sha1+ and a +sha256+ published by upstream for
 the main +libfoo-1.2.3.tar.bz2+ tarball, an +md5+ from upstream and a
 locally-computed +sha256+ hashes for a binary blob, a +sha256+ for a
@@ -520,9 +516,6 @@ sha256  01ba4719c80b6fe911b091a7c05124b64eeece964e09c058ef8f9805daca546b  libfoo
 # Locally computed:
 sha256  ff52101fb90bbfc3fe9475e425688c660f46216d7e751c4bbdb1dc85cdccacb9  libfoo-fix-blabla.patch
 
-# No hash for 1234:
-none  xxx  libfoo-1234.tar.gz
-
 # Hash for license files:
 sha256  a45a845012742796534f7e91fe623262ccfb99460a2bd04015bd28d66fba95b8  COPYING
 sha256  01b1f9f2c8ee648a7a596a1abe8aa4ed7899b1c9e5551bda06da6e422b04aa55  doc/COPYING.LGPL
diff --git a/support/download/check-hash b/support/download/check-hash
index fe9c10570e..5a47f49bc3 100755
--- a/support/download/check-hash
+++ b/support/download/check-hash
@@ -53,11 +53,7 @@ check_one_hash() {
     # Note: md5 is supported, but undocumented on purpose.
     # Note: sha3 is not supported, since there is currently no implementation
     #       (the NIST has yet to publish the parameters).
-    # Note: 'none' means there is explicitly no hash for that file.
     case "${_h}" in
-        none)
-            return 0
-            ;;
         md5|sha1)                       ;;
         sha224|sha256|sha384|sha512)    ;;
         *) # Unknown hash, exit with error
diff --git a/utils/checkpackagelib/lib_hash.py b/utils/checkpackagelib/lib_hash.py
index 698d24fd6b..1c595e84b8 100644
--- a/utils/checkpackagelib/lib_hash.py
+++ b/utils/checkpackagelib/lib_hash.py
@@ -41,8 +41,6 @@ class HashType(_CheckFunction):
             return
 
         htype, hexa = fields[:2]
-        if htype == "none":
-            return
         if htype not in self.len_of_hash.keys():
             return ["{}:{}: unexpected type of hash ({}#adding-packages-hash)"
                     .format(self.filename, lineno, self.url_to_manual),