diff --git a/gnu/packages/check.scm b/gnu/packages/check.scm
index e16a4b195b578332598f0a2781367054ac5149ec..71803b94908e6ffcaeb8b519bf9f2a48ce1dbada 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/check.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/check.scm
@@ -1544,9 +1544,6 @@ (define-public python-subunit-bootstrap
 python-subunit package instead.")
     (license (list license:bsd-3 license:asl2.0)))) ; at the user's option
 
-(define-public python2-subunit-bootstrap
-  (package-with-python2 python-subunit-bootstrap))
-
 (define-public python-subunit
   (package
     (inherit python-subunit-bootstrap)
@@ -1562,9 +1559,6 @@ (define-public python-subunit
      "Python-subunit is a Python implementation of the subunit test streaming
 protocol.")))
 
-(define-public python2-subunit
-  (package-with-python2 python-subunit))
-
 ;; Fixtures requires python-pbr at runtime, but pbr uses fixtures for its
 ;; own tests.  Hence this bootstrap variant.
 (define-public python-fixtures-bootstrap