diff --git a/package/libs/ncurses/patches/102-ncurses-5.9-gcc-5.patch b/package/libs/ncurses/patches/102-ncurses-5.9-gcc-5.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index b84fcb965c..0000000000
--- a/package/libs/ncurses/patches/102-ncurses-5.9-gcc-5.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-https://bugs.gentoo.org/545114
-
-extracted from the upstream change (which had many unrelated commits in one)
-
-From 97bb4678dc03e753290b39bbff30ba2825df9517 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: "Thomas E. Dickey" <dickey@invisible-island.net>
-Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 03:10:09 +0000
-Subject: [PATCH] ncurses 5.9 - patch 20141206
-
-+ modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
-  gcc introduced here:
-	  https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
-	  https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
-  (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
-
---- a/ncurses/base/MKlib_gen.sh
-+++ b/ncurses/base/MKlib_gen.sh
-@@ -505,11 +505,22 @@ sed -n -f $ED1 \
- 	-e 's/gen_$//' \
- 	-e 's/  / /g' >>$TMP
- 
-+cat >$ED1 <<EOF
-+s/  / /g
-+s/^ //
-+s/ $//
-+s/P_NCURSES_BOOL/NCURSES_BOOL/g
-+EOF
-+
-+# A patch discussed here:
-+#	https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
-+# introduces spurious #line markers.  Work around that by ignoring the system's
-+# attempt to define "bool" and using our own symbol here.
-+sed -e 's/bool/P_NCURSES_BOOL/g' $TMP > $ED2
-+cat $ED2 >$TMP
-+
- $preprocessor $TMP 2>/dev/null \
--| sed \
--	-e 's/  / /g' \
--	-e 's/^ //' \
--	-e 's/_Bool/NCURSES_BOOL/g' \
-+| sed -f $ED1 \
- | $AWK -f $AW2 \
- | sed -f $ED3 \
- | sed \
diff --git a/package/libs/ncurses/patches/200-fix_missing_include.patch b/package/libs/ncurses/patches/200-fix_missing_include.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 4616c4fb70..0000000000
--- a/package/libs/ncurses/patches/200-fix_missing_include.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- a/ncurses/curses.priv.h
-+++ b/ncurses/curses.priv.h
-@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ extern "C" {
- 
- #include <ncurses_cfg.h>
- 
-+#if NEED_WCHAR_H
-+#include <stdarg.h>
-+#include <wchar.h>
-+#endif
-+
- #if USE_RCS_IDS
- #define MODULE_ID(id) static const char Ident[] = id;
- #else