diff --git a/helpers/make-abiword b/helpers/make-abiword
deleted file mode 100644
index 8bca84a62ebab5bf2cf2304d3dba00ef7f144562..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/helpers/make-abiword
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,172 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2018 Ruben Rodriguez <ruben@trisquel.info>
-#
-# 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
-
-. ./config
-
-# Patch from https://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13791
-# Removed first chunk, as it doesn't apply to our version
-cat << EOF | patch -p1
-From 46388f407c893123d9b3824a7570b050fc3b049b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: James Cameron <quozl@laptop.org>
-Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 15:05:39 +1000
-Subject: [PATCH] Fix flickering
-MIME-Version: 1.0
-Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
-
-- in GR_Caret::s_blink_timeout, avoid repeated calls by stopping the
- timer, it will be restarted when needed,
-
-- in GR_Caret::s_enable, avoid extra unnecessary _blink calls when blink
- is enabled, as they serve no purpose,
-
-- in XAP_UnixFrameImpl::_fe::expose, use the Cairo clip rectangle
- instead of the expose event area, thanks to Hubert Figuière in
- 865c1dda7e13deff04573ffc42028b71fee07f9c,
-
-- in XAP_UnixFrameImpl::_fe::expose, do not return FALSE, as other
- handlers will need to handle the draw event,
-
-- in GR_UnixCairoGraphics::flush, fix excessive draw events;
- gtk_widget_queue_draw only marks the widget as needing redrawing,
- which causes a draw event for each call to flush, therefore every
- caret blink, so use gdk_flush instead,
-
-Fixes AbiSource #13791.
-Fixes Debian #851052.
-Fixes Fedora #1287835.
-Fixes Ubuntu LP: #1574278.
-Fixes Sugar Labs #4915.
-
-Signed-off-by: James Cameron <quozl@laptop.org>
-
-diff --git a/src/af/gr/xp/gr_Caret.cpp b/src/af/gr/xp/gr_Caret.cpp
-index 5d5d116..a8aa451 100644
---- a/src/af/gr/xp/gr_Caret.cpp
-+++ b/src/af/gr/xp/gr_Caret.cpp
-@@ -155,22 +155,17 @@ void GR_Caret::s_enable(UT_Worker * _w)
- {
- GR_Caret * c = static_cast<GR_Caret *>(_w->getInstanceData());
-
-+ c->m_enabler->stop();
- c->m_worker->stop();
-- c->_blink(true);
-- if (!c->m_bCursorIsOn)
-- c->_blink(true); // blink again
-- else
-- {
-- c->_blink(true); // ?? - MARCM
-- c->_blink(true);
-- }
- c->m_worker->start();
-- c->m_enabler->stop();
-+ c->_blink(true);
- }
-
- void GR_Caret::s_blink_timeout(UT_Worker * _w)
- {
- GR_Caret * c = static_cast<GR_Caret *>(_w->getInstanceData());
-+
-+ c->m_blinkTimeout->stop();
- if (c->isEnabled())
- c->disable();
- }
-diff --git a/src/af/xap/gtk/xap_UnixFrameImpl.cpp b/src/af/xap/gtk/xap_UnixFrameImpl.cpp
-index 780000e..e81961a 100644
---- a/src/af/xap/gtk/xap_UnixFrameImpl.cpp
-+++ b/src/af/xap/gtk/xap_UnixFrameImpl.cpp
-@@ -1208,15 +1208,23 @@ gint XAP_UnixFrameImpl::_fe::delete_event(GtkWidget * w, GdkEvent * /*event*/, g
- }
-
- #if GTK_CHECK_VERSION(3,0,0)
--gint XAP_UnixFrameImpl::_fe::draw(GtkWidget * w, cairo_t * cr)
-+gboolean XAP_UnixFrameImpl::_fe::draw(GtkWidget * w, cairo_t * cr)
- #else
- gint XAP_UnixFrameImpl::_fe::expose(GtkWidget * w, GdkEventExpose* pExposeEvent)
- #endif
- {
- XAP_UnixFrameImpl * pUnixFrameImpl = static_cast<XAP_UnixFrameImpl *>(g_object_get_data(G_OBJECT(w), "user_data"));
- FV_View * pView = static_cast<FV_View *>(pUnixFrameImpl->getFrame()->getCurrentView());
-+ double x, y, width, height;
- #if GTK_CHECK_VERSION(3,0,0)
-- GdkEventExpose *pExposeEvent = reinterpret_cast<GdkEventExpose *>(gtk_get_current_event());
-+ cairo_clip_extents (cr, &x, &y, &width, &height);
-+ width -= x;
-+ height -= y;
-+#else
-+ x = pExposeEvent->area.x;
-+ y = pExposeEvent->area.y;
-+ width = pExposeEvent->area.width;
-+ height = pExposeEvent->area.height;
- #endif
- /* Jean: commenting out next lines since the zoom update code does draw only
- * part of what needs to be updated. */
-@@ -1230,20 +1238,21 @@ gint XAP_UnixFrameImpl::_fe::expose(GtkWidget * w, GdkEventExpose* pExposeEvent)
- UT_Rect rClip;
- if (pGr->getPaintCount () > 0)
- return TRUE;
-- xxx_UT_DEBUGMSG(("Expose area: x %d y %d width %d height %d \n",pExposeEvent->area.x,pExposeEvent->area.y,pExposeEvent->area.width,pExposeEvent->area.height));
-- rClip.left = pGr->tlu(pExposeEvent->area.x);
-- rClip.top = pGr->tlu(pExposeEvent->area.y);
-- rClip.width = pGr->tlu(pExposeEvent->area.width)+1;
-- rClip.height = pGr->tlu(pExposeEvent->area.height)+1;
--#if GTK_CHECK_VERSION(3,0,0)
-+ rClip.left = pGr->tlu(x);
-+ rClip.top = pGr->tlu(y);
-+ #if GTK_CHECK_VERSION(3,0,0)
-+ rClip.width = pGr->tlu(width);
-+ rClip.height = pGr->tlu(height);
- static_cast<GR_CairoGraphics *>(pGr)->setCairo(cr);
- pView->draw(&rClip);
- static_cast<GR_CairoGraphics *>(pGr)->setCairo(NULL);
- #else
-+ rClip.width = pGr->tlu(width)+1;
-+ rClip.height = pGr->tlu(height)+1;
- pView->draw(&rClip);
- #endif
- }
-- return FALSE;
-+ return TRUE;
- }
-
- static bool bScrollWait = false;
-diff --git a/src/af/xap/gtk/xap_UnixFrameImpl.h b/src/af/xap/gtk/xap_UnixFrameImpl.h
-index 30ee5d8..26fbb2e 100644
---- a/src/af/xap/gtk/xap_UnixFrameImpl.h
-+++ b/src/af/xap/gtk/xap_UnixFrameImpl.h
-@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ protected:
- static gint key_release_event(GtkWidget* w, GdkEventKey* e);
- static gint delete_event(GtkWidget * w, GdkEvent * /*event*/, gpointer /*data*/);
- #if GTK_CHECK_VERSION(3,0,0)
-- static gint draw(GtkWidget * w, cairo_t * cr);
-+ static gboolean draw(GtkWidget * w, cairo_t * cr);
- #else
- static gint expose(GtkWidget * w, GdkEventExpose* pExposeEvent);
- #endif
---
-2.11.0
-EOF
-
-
-changelog "Backported into Trisquel"
-
-compile
-
diff --git a/helpers/make-dasher b/helpers/make-dasher
deleted file mode 100644
index 2e33f81d8cf10a49a299282b655bde61d0b3458e..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/helpers/make-dasher
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2014 Rubén RodrÃguez <ruben@trisquel.info>
-#
-# 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
-LOCALDEPENDS=true
-
-. ./config
-
-sed '/speech/d' -i debian/rules debian/control
-
-changelog "Remove dependence on gnome-speech, which was removed as per #2338"
-
-compile
-
diff --git a/helpers/make-db b/helpers/make-db
deleted file mode 100644
index 6df8f93f0cf94e7c9c9f487769abee59bf0c3199..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/helpers/make-db
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2013 Rubén RodrÃguez <ruben@trisquel.info>
-#
-# 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
-COMPONENT=main
-QUILT=skip
-. ./config
-
-# This file is distributed from upstream Berkeley DB under the Artistic
-# License (no version specified), althouth it was later released by the
-# original author under both GPL2+ and BSD.
-# .
-# References:
-# http://web.archive.org/web/20010806225716/http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/matumoto/mt19937int.c
-# http://web.archive.org/web/20130127064020/http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/MT2002/CODES/mt19937ar.c
-# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=886838
-# https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2010-05/msg00000.html
-
-cp $DATA/007-mt19937db.c_license.patch debian/patches
-echo 007-mt19937db.c_license.patch >> debian/patches/series
-
-export QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches
-quilt push -a
-
-changelog "Update license to include GPL, fixes 5954"
-
-compile
-
diff --git a/helpers/make-file-roller b/helpers/make-file-roller
deleted file mode 100644
index 6e2cdcdc4e773b93c8cf6ecceeb4aedca9671788..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/helpers/make-file-roller
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2012 Rubén RodrÃguez <ruben@trisquel.info>
-#
-# 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=2
-COMPONENT=main
-QUILT=skip
-
-. ./config
-
-sed 's/--enable-magic/--enable-magic --disable-packagekit/' debian/rules -i
-rm debian/patches/01_package_names.patch
-sed '/^01_package_names\.patch/d' debian/patches/series -i
-
-export QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches
-quilt push -a
-
-changelog "Disabled package recommendations, fixes #7747"
-
-compile
-
diff --git a/helpers/make-gnome-control-center b/helpers/make-gnome-control-center
deleted file mode 100644
index 341f964b90131d271cae637a0110b0be68433bb7..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/helpers/make-gnome-control-center
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2012-2017 Rubén RodrÃguez <ruben@trisquel.info>
-#
-# 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
-COMPONENT=main
-
-. ./config
-
-# Remove recommendeds as it points to ubuntu-docs
-sed 's/ | ubuntu-docs//' -i debian/control*
-
-# Replace logo
-replace UbuntuLogo.png TrisquelLogo.png
-rm debian/UbuntuLogoBlank.png
-cp $DATA/TrisquelLogo.png debian/TrisquelLogoBlank.png
-sed 's/ubuntu/trisquel/g; s/Ubuntu/Trisquel/g; s/14.04 LTS/7.0 LTS/' -i debian/rules
-
-# disable ubuntu branding
-for patch in 56_use_ubuntu_info_branding.patch; do
- rm ./debian/patches/$patch
- sed /$patch/d -i debian/patches/series
-done
-
-# Edit menu selections
-cp $DATA/gnomecc.menu.in shell/gnomecc.menu.in
-
-replace "Trisquel-Gettext" "Ubuntu-Gettext" .
-
-changelog "Rebranded for Trisquel"
-
-compile
-
diff --git a/helpers/make-gnome-panel b/helpers/make-gnome-panel
deleted file mode 100644
index 08a5793145ebc61d5ec434ca29490390216a921d..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/helpers/make-gnome-panel
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,96 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2008-2018 Ruben Rodriguez <ruben@trisquel.info>
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
-#
-
-VERSION=1
-
-. ./config
-
-# Remove the arrow in the main menu button
-sed 's/"tooltip", tooltip,/"tooltip", "Trisquel",/; s/"has-arrow", TRUE,/"has-arrow", FALSE,/' -i gnome-panel/panel-menu-button.c
-
-# Disable patches related to the gnome sessions
-for patch in 41_classic_layout.patch; do
- rm debian/patches/$patch
- sed /$patch/d -i debian/patches/series
-done
-
-# Custom layout
-cat << EOF > data/panel-default-layout.layout
-[Toplevel panel]
-expand=true
-orientation=bottom
-size=44
-y-bottom=0
-
-[Object menu-bar]
-object-iid=PanelInternalFactory::MenuButton
-toplevel-id=panel
-pack-type=start
-pack-index=0
-
-[Object home]
-object-iid=PanelInternalFactory::Launcher
-@instance-config/location="file:///usr/share/applications/home.desktop"
-pack-index=10
-pack-type=start
-toplevel-id=panel
-
-[Object abrowser]
-object-iid=PanelInternalFactory::Launcher
-@instance-config/location="file:///usr/share/applications/browser.desktop"
-pack-index=20
-pack-type=start
-toplevel-id=panel
-
-[Object window-list]
-object-iid=WnckletFactory::WindowListApplet
-pack-index=30
-pack-type=start
-toplevel-id=panel
-
-[Object notification-area]
-object-iid=NotificationAreaAppletFactory::NotificationArea
-pack-index=11
-pack-type=end
-toplevel-id=panel
-
-[Object indicators]
-object-iid=IndicatorAppletFactory::IndicatorApplet
-toplevel-id=panel
-pack-type=end
-pack-index=10
-
-[Object show-desktop]
-object-iid=WnckletFactory::ShowDesktopApplet
-pack-index=0
-pack-type=end
-toplevel-id=panel
-
-EOF
-
-# We don't want to show the gnome-online-accounts stuff yet
-patch -p1 < $DATA/hide-online-accounts-menu.patch
-
-# Do not require alt or alt+supr key modifiers for showing menus on right click
-patch -p1 < $DATA/no-mouse-modifier.patch
-
-changelog "Changed default layout"
-
-compile
-
diff --git a/helpers/make-picard b/helpers/make-picard
deleted file mode 100644
index b39a62c9cd22278f6f9f6caed96ebced3d683e7b..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/helpers/make-picard
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +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
-
-. ./config
-
-sed '/self.plugin_download = QtGui.QPushButton(self.groupBox_2)/a\
- self.plugin_download.setVisible(False)
-' -i picard/ui/ui_options_plugins.py
-
-changelog 'Disable Download Plugin in picard/ui/ui_options_plugins.py #6274'
-
-compile
-