diff --git a/src/cmd/cover/func.go b/src/cmd/cover/func.go
index ce7c771ac96..76a16b3fc4a 100644
--- a/src/cmd/cover/func.go
+++ b/src/cmd/cover/func.go
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ import (
 	"runtime"
 	"strings"
 	"text/tabwriter"
+
+	"golang.org/x/tools/cover"
 )
 
 // funcOutput takes two file names as arguments, a coverage profile to read as input and an output
@@ -38,7 +40,7 @@ import (
 //	total:		(statements)			91.9%
 
 func funcOutput(profile, outputFile string) error {
-	profiles, err := ParseProfiles(profile)
+	profiles, err := cover.ParseProfiles(profile)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
@@ -144,7 +146,7 @@ func (v *FuncVisitor) Visit(node ast.Node) ast.Visitor {
 }
 
 // coverage returns the fraction of the statements in the function that were covered, as a numerator and denominator.
-func (f *FuncExtent) coverage(profile *Profile) (num, den int64) {
+func (f *FuncExtent) coverage(profile *cover.Profile) (num, den int64) {
 	// We could avoid making this n^2 overall by doing a single scan and annotating the functions,
 	// but the sizes of the data structures is never very large and the scan is almost instantaneous.
 	var covered, total int64
@@ -175,7 +177,7 @@ type Pkg struct {
 	}
 }
 
-func findPkgs(profiles []*Profile) (map[string]*Pkg, error) {
+func findPkgs(profiles []*cover.Profile) (map[string]*Pkg, error) {
 	// Run go list to find the location of every package we care about.
 	pkgs := make(map[string]*Pkg)
 	var list []string
diff --git a/src/cmd/cover/html.go b/src/cmd/cover/html.go
index b2865c427c8..3c1d17e7b95 100644
--- a/src/cmd/cover/html.go
+++ b/src/cmd/cover/html.go
@@ -15,13 +15,15 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
+
+	"golang.org/x/tools/cover"
 )
 
 // htmlOutput reads the profile data from profile and generates an HTML
 // coverage report, writing it to outfile. If outfile is empty,
 // it writes the report to a temporary file and opens it in a web browser.
 func htmlOutput(profile, outfile string) error {
-	profiles, err := ParseProfiles(profile)
+	profiles, err := cover.ParseProfiles(profile)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
@@ -92,7 +94,7 @@ func htmlOutput(profile, outfile string) error {
 // percentCovered returns, as a percentage, the fraction of the statements in
 // the profile covered by the test run.
 // In effect, it reports the coverage of a given source file.
-func percentCovered(p *Profile) float64 {
+func percentCovered(p *cover.Profile) float64 {
 	var total, covered int64
 	for _, b := range p.Blocks {
 		total += int64(b.NumStmt)
@@ -108,7 +110,7 @@ func percentCovered(p *Profile) float64 {
 
 // htmlGen generates an HTML coverage report with the provided filename,
 // source code, and tokens, and writes it to the given Writer.
-func htmlGen(w io.Writer, src []byte, boundaries []Boundary) error {
+func htmlGen(w io.Writer, src []byte, boundaries []cover.Boundary) error {
 	dst := bufio.NewWriter(w)
 	for i := range src {
 		for len(boundaries) > 0 && boundaries[0].Offset == i {
diff --git a/src/cmd/cover/profile.go b/src/cmd/cover/profile.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 839444edb71..00000000000
--- a/src/cmd/cover/profile.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2013 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
-// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
-// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
-
-// This file provides support for parsing coverage profiles
-// generated by "go test -coverprofile=cover.out".
-// It is a alias of golang.org/x/tools/cover/profile.go.
-
-package main
-
-import (
-	"golang.org/x/tools/cover"
-)
-
-// Profile represents the profiling data for a specific file.
-type Profile = cover.Profile
-
-// ProfileBlock represents a single block of profiling data.
-type ProfileBlock = cover.ProfileBlock
-
-// ParseProfiles parses profile data in the specified file and returns a
-// Profile for each source file described therein.
-func ParseProfiles(fileName string) ([]*Profile, error) {
-	return cover.ParseProfiles(fileName)
-}
-
-// Boundary represents the position in a source file of the beginning or end of a
-// block as reported by the coverage profile. In HTML mode, it will correspond to
-// the opening or closing of a <span> tag and will be used to colorize the source
-type Boundary = cover.Boundary