diff --git a/packages/py-matplotlib/freetype-include-path.patch b/packages/py-matplotlib/freetype-include-path.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 7007c88d0dbfd91164c0773eb8222da7b773dbd3..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/packages/py-matplotlib/freetype-include-path.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/setupext.py b/setupext.py
-index 6d363012eb4..00ef3fe5a3d 100644
---- a/setupext.py
-+++ b/setupext.py
-@@ -162,8 +162,10 @@ def get_include_dirs():
-     """
-     include_dirs = [os.path.join(d, 'include') for d in get_base_dirs()]
-     if sys.platform != 'win32':
--        # gcc includes this dir automatically, so also look for headers in
-+        # gcc includes these dirs automatically, so also look for headers in
-         # these dirs
-+        include_dirs.extend(
-+            os.environ.get('CPATH', '').split(os.pathsep))
-         include_dirs.extend(
-             os.environ.get('CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH', '').split(os.pathsep))
-     return include_dirs
diff --git a/packages/py-matplotlib/matplotlibrc.patch b/packages/py-matplotlib/matplotlibrc.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index bbc6b294da7f9eb91b062e51ad0562a48875cc94..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/packages/py-matplotlib/matplotlibrc.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- a/setup.py	2021-09-23 23:57:06.000000000 -0500
-+++ b/setup.py	2021-11-18 14:29:50.000000000 -0600
-@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@
-         idx for idx, line in enumerate(template_lines)
-         if "#backend:" in line]
-     template_lines[backend_line_idx] = (
--        "#backend: {}".format(setupext.options["backend"])
-+        "#backend: {}\n".format(setupext.options["backend"])
-         if setupext.options["backend"]
-         else "##backend: Agg")
-     path.write_text("".join(template_lines))
diff --git a/packages/py-matplotlib/package.py b/packages/py-matplotlib/package.py
deleted file mode 100644
index a60f62965e99d83b8172e63910981d7a9f25cfb6..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/packages/py-matplotlib/package.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,300 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2022 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
-# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
-
-import os
-import sys
-
-from spack.package import *
-
-
-class PyMatplotlib(PythonPackage):
-    """Matplotlib is a comprehensive library for creating static, animated,
-    and interactive visualizations in Python."""
-
-    homepage = "https://matplotlib.org/"
-    pypi = "matplotlib/matplotlib-3.3.2.tar.gz"
-
-    maintainers = ["adamjstewart"]
-    import_modules = [
-        "mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1",
-        "mpl_toolkits.axes_grid",
-        "mpl_toolkits.mplot3d",
-        "mpl_toolkits.axisartist",
-        "matplotlib",
-        "matplotlib.compat",
-        "matplotlib.tri",
-        "matplotlib.axes",
-        "matplotlib.sphinxext",
-        "matplotlib.cbook",
-        "matplotlib.backends",
-        "matplotlib.backends.qt_editor",
-        "matplotlib.style",
-        "matplotlib.projections",
-        "matplotlib.testing",
-        "matplotlib.testing.jpl_units",
-        "pylab",
-    ]
-
-    version("3.6.2", sha256="b03fd10a1709d0101c054883b550f7c4c5e974f751e2680318759af005964990")
-    version("3.6.1", sha256="e2d1b7225666f7e1bcc94c0bc9c587a82e3e8691da4757e357e5c2515222ee37")
-    version("3.6.0", sha256="c5108ebe67da60a9204497d8d403316228deb52b550388190c53a57394d41531")
-    version("3.5.3", sha256="339cac48b80ddbc8bfd05daae0a3a73414651a8596904c2a881cfd1edb65f26c")
-    version("3.5.2", sha256="48cf850ce14fa18067f2d9e0d646763681948487a8080ec0af2686468b4607a2")
-    version("3.5.1", sha256="b2e9810e09c3a47b73ce9cab5a72243a1258f61e7900969097a817232246ce1c")
-    version("3.5.0", sha256="38892a254420d95594285077276162a5e9e9c30b6da08bdc2a4d53331ad9a6fa")
-    version("3.4.3", sha256="fc4f526dfdb31c9bd6b8ca06bf9fab663ca12f3ec9cdf4496fb44bc680140318")
-    version("3.4.2", sha256="d8d994cefdff9aaba45166eb3de4f5211adb4accac85cbf97137e98f26ea0219")
-    version("3.4.1", sha256="84d4c4f650f356678a5d658a43ca21a41fca13f9b8b00169c0b76e6a6a948908")
-    version("3.4.0", sha256="424ddb3422c65b284a38a97eb48f5cb64b66a44a773e0c71281a347f1738f146")
-    version("3.3.4", sha256="3e477db76c22929e4c6876c44f88d790aacdf3c3f8f3a90cb1975c0bf37825b0")
-    version("3.3.3", sha256="b1b60c6476c4cfe9e5cf8ab0d3127476fd3d5f05de0f343a452badaad0e4bdec")
-    version("3.3.2", sha256="3d2edbf59367f03cd9daf42939ca06383a7d7803e3993eb5ff1bee8e8a3fbb6b")
-    version("3.3.1", sha256="87f53bcce90772f942c2db56736788b39332d552461a5cb13f05ff45c1680f0e")
-    version("3.3.0", sha256="24e8db94948019d531ce0bcd637ac24b1c8f6744ac86d2aa0eb6dbaeb1386f82")
-    version("3.2.2", sha256="3d77a6630d093d74cbbfebaa0571d00790966be1ed204e4a8239f5cbd6835c5d")
-    version("3.2.1", sha256="ffe2f9cdcea1086fc414e82f42271ecf1976700b8edd16ca9d376189c6d93aee")
-    version("3.2.0", sha256="651d76daf9168250370d4befb09f79875daa2224a9096d97dfc3ed764c842be4")
-    version("3.1.3", sha256="db3121f12fb9b99f105d1413aebaeb3d943f269f3d262b45586d12765866f0c6")
-    version("3.1.2", sha256="8e8e2c2fe3d873108735c6ee9884e6f36f467df4a143136209cff303b183bada")
-    version("3.1.1", sha256="1febd22afe1489b13c6749ea059d392c03261b2950d1d45c17e3aed812080c93")
-    version("3.1.0", sha256="1e0213f87cc0076f7b0c4c251d7e23601e2419cd98691df79edb95517ba06f0c")
-    version("3.0.2", sha256="c94b792af431f6adb6859eb218137acd9a35f4f7442cea57e4a59c54751c36af")
-    version("3.0.0", sha256="b4e2333c98a7c2c1ff6eb930cd2b57d4b818de5437c5048802096b32f66e65f9")
-    version("2.2.5", sha256="a3037a840cd9dfdc2df9fee8af8f76ca82bfab173c0f9468193ca7a89a2b60ea")
-    version("2.2.4", sha256="029620799e581802961ac1dcff5cb5d3ee2f602e0db9c0f202a90495b37d2126")
-    version("2.2.3", sha256="7355bf757ecacd5f0ac9dd9523c8e1a1103faadf8d33c22664178e17533f8ce5")
-    version("2.2.2", sha256="4dc7ef528aad21f22be85e95725234c5178c0f938e2228ca76640e5e84d8cde8")
-    version("2.0.2", sha256="0ffbc44faa34a8b1704bc108c451ecf87988f900ef7ce757b8e2e84383121ff1")
-    version("2.0.0", sha256="36cf0985829c1ab2b8b1dae5e2272e53ae681bf33ab8bedceed4f0565af5f813")
-
-    # https://matplotlib.org/tutorials/introductory/usage.html#backends
-    # From `lib/matplotlib/rcsetup.py`:
-    interactive_bk = [
-        # GTK
-        conditional("gtk", when="@:2"),
-        conditional("gtkagg", when="@:2"),
-        conditional("gtkcairo", when="@:2"),
-        "gtk3agg",
-        "gtk3cairo",
-        conditional("gtk4agg", when="@3.5:"),
-        conditional("gtk4cairo", when="@3.5:"),
-        # Qt
-        conditional("qtagg", when="@3.5:"),
-        conditional("qtcairo", when="@3.5:"),
-        conditional("qt4agg", when="@:3.4"),
-        conditional("qt4cairo", when="@2.2:3.4"),
-        "qt5agg",
-        conditional("qt5cairo", when="@2.2:"),
-        # Tk
-        "tkagg",
-        "tkcairo",
-        # Wx
-        "wx",
-        "wxagg",
-        conditional("wxcairo", when="@2.2:"),
-        # Other
-        "macosx",
-        "nbagg",
-        "webagg",
-    ]
-    non_interactive_bk = [
-        "agg",
-        "cairo",
-        conditional("gdk", when="@:2"),
-        "pdf",
-        "pgf",
-        "ps",
-        "svg",
-        "template",
-    ]
-    all_backends = interactive_bk + non_interactive_bk
-
-    default_backend = "agg"
-    if sys.platform == "darwin":
-        default_backend = "macosx"
-
-    variant(
-        "backend",
-        default=default_backend,
-        description="Default backend. All backends are installed and "
-        + "functional as long as dependencies are found at run-time",
-        values=all_backends,
-        multi=False,
-    )
-    variant("movies", default=False, description="Enable support for saving movies")
-    variant("animation", default=False, description="Enable animation support")
-    variant(
-        "image",
-        default=True,
-        when="@:3.2",
-        description="Enable reading/saving JPEG, BMP and TIFF files",
-    )
-    variant("latex", default=False, description="Enable LaTeX text rendering support")
-    variant("fonts", default=False, description="Enable support for system font detection")
-
-    # https://matplotlib.org/stable/devel/dependencies.html
-    # Runtime dependencies
-    # Mandatory dependencies
-    extends("python", ignore=r"bin/nosetests.*$|bin/pbr$")
-    depends_on("python@3.8:", when="@3.6:", type=("build", "link", "run"))
-    depends_on("python@3.7:", when="@3.4:", type=("build", "link", "run"))
-    depends_on("python@3.6:", when="@3.1:", type=("build", "link", "run"))
-    depends_on("python@3.5:", when="@3:", type=("build", "link", "run"))
-    depends_on("python@2.7:2.8,3.4:", when="@:2", type=("build", "link", "run"))
-    depends_on("py-contourpy@1.0.1:", when="@3.6:", type=("build", "run"))
-    depends_on("py-cycler@0.10:", type=("build", "run"))
-    depends_on("py-fonttools@4.22:", when="@3.5:", type=("build", "run"))
-    depends_on("py-kiwisolver@1.0.1:", type=("build", "run"), when="@2.2.0:")
-    depends_on("py-numpy@1.19:", when="@3.6:", type=("build", "run"))
-    depends_on("py-numpy@1.17:", when="@3.5:", type=("build", "run"))
-    depends_on("py-numpy@1.16:", when="@3.4:", type=("build", "run"))
-    depends_on("py-numpy@1.15:", when="@3.3:", type=("build", "run"))
-    depends_on("py-numpy@1.11:", type=("build", "run"))
-    depends_on("py-packaging@20:", when="@3.6:", type=("build", "run"))
-    depends_on("py-packaging", when="@3.5:", type=("build", "run"))
-    depends_on("pil@6.2:", when="@3.3:", type=("build", "run"))
-    depends_on("py-pyparsing@2.2.1:", when="@3.4:", type=("build", "run"))
-    depends_on("py-pyparsing@2.0.3,2.0.5:2.1.1,2.1.3:2.1.5,2.1.7:", type=("build", "run"))
-    depends_on("py-python-dateutil@2.7:", when="@3.4:", type=("build", "run"))
-    depends_on("py-python-dateutil@2.1:", type=("build", "run"))
-    depends_on("py-setuptools", type=("build", "run"))
-
-    # Historical dependencies
-    depends_on(
-        "py-backports-functools-lru-cache", type=("build", "run"), when="@2.1.0:2 ^python@:2"
-    )
-    depends_on("py-functools32", type=("build", "run"), when="@:2.0 ^python@:2.7")
-    depends_on("py-pytz", type=("build", "run"), when="@:2")
-    depends_on("py-six@1.10.0:", type=("build", "run"), when="@2")
-    depends_on("py-six@1.9.0:", type=("build", "run"), when="@:1")
-    depends_on("py-subprocess32", type=("build", "run"), when="^python@:2.7")
-
-    # Optional dependencies
-    # Backends
-    # Tk
-    for backend in ["tkagg", "tkcairo"]:
-        depends_on("tk@8.4:8.5,8.6.2:", when="backend=" + backend, type="run")
-        depends_on("python+tkinter", when="backend=" + backend, type="run")
-    # Qt
-    for backend in ["qt4agg", "qt4cairo"]:
-        depends_on("py-pyqt4@4.6:", when="backend=" + backend, type="run")
-    for backend in ["qt5agg", "qt5cairo"]:
-        depends_on("py-pyqt5", when="backend=" + backend, type="run")
-    # https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/32696
-    # for backend in ["qtagg", "qtcairo"]:
-    #     depends_on("py-pyqt6@6.1:", when="backend=" + backend, type="run")
-    # GTK
-    for backend in ["gtk", "gtkagg", "gtkcairo", "gtk3agg", "gtk3cairo", "gtk4agg", "gtk4cairo"]:
-        depends_on("py-pygobject", when="backend=" + backend, type="run")
-        depends_on("py-pycairo@1.14:", when="backend=" + backend, type="run")
-    # Cairo
-    for backend in [
-        "gtkcairo",
-        "gtk3cairo",
-        "gtk4cairo",
-        "qtcairo",
-        "qt4cairo",
-        "qt5cairo",
-        "tkcairo",
-        "wxcairo",
-        "cairo",
-    ]:
-        depends_on("py-pycairo@1.14:", when="backend=" + backend, type="run")
-    # Wx
-    for backend in ["wx", "wxagg", "wxcairo"]:
-        depends_on("py-wxpython@4:", when="backend=" + backend, type="run")
-    # Other
-    depends_on("py-tornado@5:", when="backend=webagg", type="run")
-    depends_on("py-ipykernel", when="backend=nbagg", type="run")
-
-    # Optional dependencies
-    depends_on("ffmpeg", when="+movies")
-    depends_on("imagemagick", when="+animation")
-    depends_on("pil@3.4:", when="+image", type=("build", "run"))
-    depends_on("texlive", when="+latex", type="run")
-    depends_on("ghostscript@9:", when="+latex", type="run")
-    depends_on("fontconfig@2.7:", when="+fonts")
-    depends_on("pkgconfig", type="build")
-
-    # C libraries
-    depends_on("freetype@2.3:")  # freetype 2.6.1 needed for tests to pass
-    depends_on("qhull@2020.2:", when="@3.4:")
-    # starting from qhull 2020.2 libqhull.so on which py-matplotlib@3.3 versions
-    # rely on does not exist anymore, only libqhull_r.so
-    depends_on("qhull@2015.2:2020.1", when="@3.3")
-    depends_on("libpng@1.2:")
-
-    # Dependencies for building matplotlib
-    # Setup dependencies
-    depends_on("py-certifi@2020.6.20:", when="@3.3.1:", type="build")
-    depends_on("py-setuptools-scm@7:", when="@3.6:", type="build")
-    depends_on("py-setuptools-scm@4:", when="@3.5", type="build")
-    depends_on("py-setuptools-scm-git-archive", when="@3.5", type="build")
-
-    # Testing dependencies
-    # https://matplotlib.org/stable/devel/development_setup.html#additional-dependencies-for-testing
-    depends_on("py-pytest@3.6:", type="test")
-    depends_on("ghostscript@9.0:", type="test")
-    # depends_on("inkscape@:0", type="test")
-
-    msg = "MacOSX backend requires macOS 10.12+"
-    conflicts("platform=linux", when="backend=macosx", msg=msg)
-    conflicts("platform=cray", when="backend=macosx", msg=msg)
-    conflicts("platform=windows", when="backend=macosx", msg=msg)
-
-    # https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/21662
-    patch("matplotlibrc.patch", when="@3.5.0")
-    # Patch to pick up correct freetype headers
-    patch("freetype-include-path.patch", when="@2.2.2:2.9.9")
-
-    @property
-    def config_file(self):
-        # https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/20871
-        return "mplsetup.cfg" if self.spec.satisfies("@3.5:") else "setup.cfg"
-
-    @property
-    def archive_files(self):
-        return [os.path.join(self.build_directory, self.config_file)]
-
-    def setup_build_environment(self, env):
-        include = []
-        library = []
-        for dep in self.spec.dependencies(deptype="link"):
-            query = self.spec[dep.name]
-            include.extend(query.headers.directories)
-            library.extend(query.libs.directories)
-
-        # Build uses a mix of Spack's compiler wrapper and the actual compiler,
-        # so this is needed to get parts of the build working.
-        # See https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/19843
-        env.set("CPATH", ":".join(include))
-        env.set("LIBRARY_PATH", ":".join(library))
-
-    @run_before("install")
-    def configure(self):
-        """Set build options with regards to backend GUI libraries."""
-
-        backend = self.spec.variants["backend"].value
-
-        with open(self.config_file, "w") as config:
-            # Default backend
-            config.write("[rc_options]\n")
-            config.write("backend = " + backend + "\n")
-
-            # Starting with version 3.3.0, freetype is downloaded by default
-            # Force matplotlib to use Spack installations of freetype and qhull
-            if self.spec.satisfies("@3.3:"):
-                config.write("[libs]\n")
-                config.write("system_freetype = True\n")
-                config.write("system_qhull = True\n")
-                # avoids error where link time opt is used for compile but not link
-                if self.spec.satisfies("%clang") or self.spec.satisfies("%oneapi"):
-                    config.write("enable_lto = False\n")
-
-    @run_after("install")
-    @on_package_attributes(run_tests=True)
-    def build_test(self):
-        pytest = which("pytest")
-        pytest()