diff --git a/helpers/DATA/geoip-database-contrib/copyright.shim b/helpers/DATA/geoip-database-contrib/copyright.shim
deleted file mode 100644
index e9206493357f20fcfda88d954eb76516f7bc1c0b..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/helpers/DATA/geoip-database-contrib/copyright.shim
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-
-Files: geoip-database-contrib_update
-Copyright: 2010/2013, Ludovico Cavedon <cavedon@debian.org>
-                      Patrick Matthäi <pmatthaei@debian.org>
-           2015       Andrew Lindley <andrew@andrewlindley.co.uk>
-License: GPL-2+
diff --git a/helpers/DATA/geoip-database-contrib/update-geoip-database.shim b/helpers/DATA/geoip-database-contrib/update-geoip-database.shim
deleted file mode 100644
index f50a3966ee6ff53e215cd488fcf8a663185df544..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/helpers/DATA/geoip-database-contrib/update-geoip-database.shim
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-# Download the compressed source CSVs for GNU FSDG compliance
-
-GEOLITE_COUNTRY_CSV_PATH=""
-GEOLITE_COUNTRY_CSV_FILE="GeoIPCountryCSV.zip"
-
-GEOLITE_COUNTRY_IPV6_CSV_PATH=""
-GEOLITE_COUNTRY_IPV6_CSV_FILE="GeoIPv6.csv.gz"
-
-GEOLITE_CITY_CSV_PATH="GeoLiteCity_CSV/"
-GEOLITE_CITY_CSV_FILE="GeoLiteCity-latest.tar.xz"
-
-GEOLITE_CITY_IPV6_CSV_PATH="GeoLiteCityv6-beta/"
-GEOLITE_CITY_IPV6_CSV_FILE="GeoLiteCityv6.csv.gz"
-
-GEOLITE_ASNUM_CSV_PATH="asnum/"
-GEOLITE_ASNUM_CSV_FILE="GeoIPASNum2.zip"
-
-GEOLITE_ASNUM_IPV6_CSV_PATH="asnum/"
-GEOLITE_ASNUM_IPV6_CSV_FILE="GeoIPASNum2v6.zip"
-
-GEOIP_CSV_DIR="/usr/share/doc/geoip-database-contrib/csv/"
-
-mkdir -p $GEOIP_CSV_DIR
-
-for url in \
-    "$GEOIP_URL$GEOLITE_COUNTRY_CSV_PATH$GEOLITE_COUNTRY_CSV_FILE" \
-    "$GEOIP_URL$GEOLITE_COUNTRY_IPV6_CSV_PATH$GEOLITE_COUNTRY_IPV6_CSV_FILE" \
-    "$GEOIP_URL$GEOLITE_CITY_CSV_PATH$GEOLITE_CITY_CSV_FILE" \
-    "$GEOIP_URL$GEOLITE_CITY_IPV6_CSV_PATH$GEOLITE_CITY_IPV6_CSV_FILE" \
-    "$GEOIP_URL$GEOLITE_ASNUM_CSV_PATH$GEOLITE_ASNUM_CSV_FILE" \
-    "$GEOIP_URL$GEOLITE_ASNUM_IPV6_CSV_PATH$GEOLITE_ASNUM_IPV6_CSV_FILE"
-do
-    echo "Downloading: $url"
-
-    # Download file in the same directory as the final one so that the "mv"
-    # below can be atomic.
-    TEMP=$(mktemp --tmpdir=$GEOIP_CSV_DIR)
-    FILE=$(basename $url)
-
-    /usr/bin/wget -q -t3 -T15 "$url" -O $TEMP
-
-    if [ "$?" != "0" ]
-    then
-        echo "Failed to download $url"
-    else
-        rm -f $GEOIP_CSV_DIR$FILE
-        mv $TEMP $GEOIP_CSV_DIR$FILE
-        chmod 644 $GEOIP_CSV_DIR$FILE
-    fi
-
-    rm -f $TEMP
-done
-
-exit 0
diff --git a/helpers/make-geoip-database-contrib b/helpers/make-geoip-database-contrib
deleted file mode 100644
index 9d8dc7006c3dae19c4ddb27143a861a751eaee2f..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/helpers/make-geoip-database-contrib
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-#    Copyright (C) 2015 Andrew M. Lindley <andrew@andrewlindley.co.uk>
-#
-#    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
-#    (at your option) any later version.
-#
-#    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-#    GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-#    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301 USA
-#	
-
-VERSION=1
-EXTERNAL='deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu $UPSTREAM multiverse'
-
-. ./config
-
-sed "/^exit 0/d" -i update-geoip-database
-cat $DATA/update-geoip-database.shim >> update-geoip-database
-cat $DATA/copyright.shim >> debian/copyright 
-
-sed '\|rm -f /var/lib/geoip-database-contrib/GeoLiteCityv6\.dat|a\
-    rm -f /usr/share/doc/geoip-database-contrib/csv/GeoIPCountryCSV.zip\
-    rm -f /usr/share/doc/geoip-database-contrib/csv/GeoIPv6.csv.gz\
-    rm -f /usr/share/doc/geoip-database-contrib/csv/GeoLiteCity-latest.tar.xz\
-    rm -f /usr/share/doc/geoip-database-contrib/csv/GeoLiteCityv6.csv.gz\
-    rm -f /usr/share/doc/geoip-database-contrib/csv/GeoIPASNum2.zip\
-    rm -f /usr/share/doc/geoip-database-contrib/csv/GeoIPASNum2v6.zip\
-    rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /usr/share/doc/geoip-database-contrib/csv &&\\\
-    rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /usr/share/doc/geoip-database-contrib
-' -i debian/postrm
-
-changelog 'Handle CSV source in update-geoip-database and postrm #13927'
-
-compile
-