diff --git a/extra/shared-mime-info/build b/extra/shared-mime-info/build
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index e4430bc8..00000000
--- a/extra/shared-mime-info/build
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@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh -e
-#
-# We bypass the build system entirely as it has
-# a mandatory dependency on gettext.
-
-# Grab the package version.
-read -r version _ < "${0%/*}/version"
-
-mkdir -p "$1/usr/share/mime/packages" \
-         "$1/usr/share/pkgconfig" \
-         "$1/usr/bin"
-
-# Install with only English support.
-sed -e 's/_comment/comment/g' freedesktop.org.xml.in \
-    > "$1/usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml"
-
-# Replace markers in the file.
-sed -e 's|@prefix@|/usr|' -e "s|@VERSION@|$version|" shared-mime-info.pc.in \
-    > "$1/usr/share/pkgconfig/shared-mime-info.pc"
-
-# Define our own config.h statically.
-cat << EOF > config.h
-#define HAVE_BIND_TEXTDOMAIN_CODESET 1
-#define HAVE_FDATASYNC 1
-#define HAVE_GETTEXT 0
-#define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1
-#define HAVE_LC_MESSAGES 1
-#define HAVE_LOCALE_H 1
-#define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1
-#define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
-#define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
-#define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1
-#define HAVE_STRING_H 1
-#define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
-#define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
-#define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
-#define PACKAGE "shared-mime-info"
-#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
-#define PACKAGE_NAME "shared-mime-info"
-#define PACKAGE_STRING "shared-mime-info $version"
-#define PACKAGE_TARNAME "shared-mime-info"
-#define PACKAGE_URL ""
-#define PACKAGE_VERSION "$version"
-#define STDC_HEADERS 1
-#define VERSION "$version"
-EOF
-
-# Fix config.h include.
-sed -i 's/<config.h>/"config.h"/' update-mime-database.c
-
-# shellcheck disable=2046
-"${CC:-cc}" -o "$1/usr/bin/update-mime-database" \
-    $(pkg-config --libs --cflags glib-2.0 libxml-2.0) \
-    update-mime-database.c
diff --git a/extra/shared-mime-info/checksums b/extra/shared-mime-info/checksums
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--- a/extra/shared-mime-info/checksums
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-2df77d547fa0548def38614f318282bc9937e7bde5f139d35053b605f7fd34df  Release-1-15.tar.gz
diff --git a/extra/shared-mime-info/depends b/extra/shared-mime-info/depends
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index 4919fada..00000000
--- a/extra/shared-mime-info/depends
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@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-glib
-libxml2
-xz
-zlib
diff --git a/extra/shared-mime-info/post-install b/extra/shared-mime-info/post-install
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index e9dffaad..00000000
--- a/extra/shared-mime-info/post-install
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh -e
-
-update-mime-database -V /usr/share/mime
diff --git a/extra/shared-mime-info/sources b/extra/shared-mime-info/sources
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index 4ad8576c..00000000
--- a/extra/shared-mime-info/sources
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-https://github.com/freedesktop/xdg-shared-mime-info/archive/Release-1-15.tar.gz
diff --git a/extra/shared-mime-info/version b/extra/shared-mime-info/version
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--- a/extra/shared-mime-info/version
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-1.15 1