diff --git a/Config.in.legacy b/Config.in.legacy
index 937aed7399..af0c1ba50c 100644
--- a/Config.in.legacy
+++ b/Config.in.legacy
@@ -146,6 +146,12 @@ endif
 
 comment "Legacy options removed in 2021.02"
 
+config BR2_PACKAGE_SCONESERVER_HTTP_SCONESITE_IMAGE
+	bool "sconeserver http::sconesite::image removed"
+	help
+	  Sconeserver cannot be built with ImageMagick - it uses the
+	  "transofrm" function which is removed from public API.
+
 config BR2_PACKAGE_XSERVER_XORG_SERVER_KDRIVE_EVDEV
 	bool "KDrive/TinyX evdev input driver removed"
 	select BR2_LEGACY
diff --git a/package/sconeserver/Config.in b/package/sconeserver/Config.in
index 429ac81fe1..d46ba85fbc 100644
--- a/package/sconeserver/Config.in
+++ b/package/sconeserver/Config.in
@@ -26,14 +26,6 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_SCONESERVER_HTTP_SCONESITE
 	help
 	  http::sconesite module for Sconeserver
 
-config BR2_PACKAGE_SCONESERVER_HTTP_SCONESITE_IMAGE
-	bool "http::sconesite::image"
-	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_SCONESERVER_HTTP_SCONESITE
-	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # imagemagick
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_IMAGEMAGICK
-	help
-	  http::sconesite::image module for Sconeserver
-
 config BR2_PACKAGE_SCONESERVER_MYSQL
 	bool "mysql"
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # mysql
diff --git a/package/sconeserver/sconeserver.mk b/package/sconeserver/sconeserver.mk
index 62cc128d77..17407c29f5 100644
--- a/package/sconeserver/sconeserver.mk
+++ b/package/sconeserver/sconeserver.mk
@@ -14,10 +14,16 @@ SCONESERVER_DEPENDENCIES = \
 	host-pkgconf \
 	$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_PCRE),pcre) \
 	zlib
+# disable image as it fails to build with ImageMagick
 # disable markdown module because its git submodule cmark
 # https://github.com/sconemad/sconeserver/tree/master/markdown
 # has no cross-compile support provided by the sconeserver build system
-SCONESERVER_CONF_OPTS += --with-ip --with-local --with-ip6 --without-markdown
+SCONESERVER_CONF_OPTS += \
+	--with-ip \
+	--with-local \
+	--with-ip6 \
+	--without-image \
+	--without-markdown
 
 # Sconeserver configure script fails to find the libxml2 headers.
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBXML2),y)
@@ -45,13 +51,6 @@ else
 SCONESERVER_CONF_OPTS += --without-sconesite
 endif
 
-ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_SCONESERVER_HTTP_SCONESITE_IMAGE),y)
-SCONESERVER_DEPENDENCIES += imagemagick
-SCONESERVER_CONF_OPTS += --with-image
-else
-SCONESERVER_CONF_OPTS += --without-image
-endif
-
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_SCONESERVER_MYSQL),y)
 SCONESERVER_DEPENDENCIES += mysql
 SCONESERVER_CONF_OPTS += \