diff --git a/devel/doxygen/files/patch-doc-doxygen_manual.tex b/devel/doxygen/files/patch-doc-doxygen_manual.tex
deleted file mode 100644
index 0665af5b15f2..000000000000
--- a/devel/doxygen/files/patch-doc-doxygen_manual.tex
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- doc/doxygen_manual.tex.orig	2019-08-04 11:51:41 UTC
-+++ doc/doxygen_manual.tex
-@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
- \usepackage{array}[=2016-10-06]
- \fi
- %%
--\usepackage[a4paper,left=2.5cm,right=2.5cm,top=2.5cm,bottom=2.5cm]{geometry}
-+\usepackage[left=2.5cm,right=2.5cm,top=2.5cm,bottom=2.5cm]{geometry}
- \usepackage{makeidx}
- \usepackage{natbib}
- \usepackage{graphicx}
diff --git a/devel/doxygen/files/patch-doc-translator.py b/devel/doxygen/files/patch-doc-translator.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 646f420a67e1..000000000000
--- a/devel/doxygen/files/patch-doc-translator.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-Hack to avoid "UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb0 in position 45: invalid start byte"
-in src/._xmlgen.cpp which is binary. This doesn't seem like it should be present at the time the docs
-are generated, but this is simpler for now.
---- doc/translator.py
-+++ doc/translator.py
-@@ -1454,10 +1454,13 @@ class TrManager:
- 
-         # Read content of the file as one string.
-         assert os.path.isfile(fname)
--        f = xopen(fname)
--        cont = f.read()
--        cont = ''.join(cont.split('\n')) # otherwise the 'match' function won't work.
--        f.close()
-+        try:
-+            with xopen(fname) as f:
-+                cont = f.read()
-+                cont = ''.join(cont.split('\n')) # otherwise the 'match' function won't work.
-+        except UnicodeDecodeError:
-+            print("Skipping {0} because of decoding errors".format(fname))
-+            return
- 
-         # Remove the items for identifiers that were found in the file.
-         while lst_in: