diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index fa572b6d..8dff9e9d 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -543,9 +543,6 @@ configure_file(input : 'tools/libinput.man',
 	       install_dir : join_paths(get_option('mandir'), 'man1')
 	       )
 
-meson.add_install_script('tools/install-compat-scripts.sh',
-			 join_paths(get_option('prefix'), get_option('bindir')))
-
 ptraccel_debug_sources = [ 'tools/ptraccel-debug.c' ]
 executable('ptraccel-debug',
 	   ptraccel_debug_sources,
diff --git a/tools/install-compat-scripts.sh b/tools/install-compat-scripts.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index b046b849..00000000
--- a/tools/install-compat-scripts.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-bindir="${DESTDIR}${1}"
-
-# Do not create bindir, because if it is not there now, we have a problem
-cp "${MESON_SOURCE_ROOT}/tools/libinput-list-devices.compat" "${bindir}/libinput-list-devices"
-cp "${MESON_SOURCE_ROOT}/tools/libinput-debug-events.compat" "${bindir}/libinput-debug-events"
diff --git a/tools/libinput-debug-events.compat b/tools/libinput-debug-events.compat
deleted file mode 100755
index dc11af75..00000000
--- a/tools/libinput-debug-events.compat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-echo "WARNING: This compatibility wrapper will be removed in the future. Please run 'libinput debug-events' instead"  1>&2
-exec libinput debug-events $@
diff --git a/tools/libinput-list-devices.compat b/tools/libinput-list-devices.compat
deleted file mode 100755
index 3fe3baa5..00000000
--- a/tools/libinput-list-devices.compat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-echo "WARNING: This compatibility wrapper will be removed in the future. Please run 'libinput list-devices' instead"  1>&2
-exec libinput list-devices $@