diff --git a/src/pkg/Makefile b/src/pkg/Makefile
index c84da57f26b..6611fbf84a6 100644
--- a/src/pkg/Makefile
+++ b/src/pkg/Makefile
@@ -74,7 +74,6 @@ DIRS=\
 	encoding/binary\
 	encoding/git85\
 	encoding/hex\
-	encoding/line\
 	encoding/pem\
 	exec\
 	exp/datafmt\
diff --git a/src/pkg/encoding/line/Makefile b/src/pkg/encoding/line/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 1af355c2754..00000000000
--- a/src/pkg/encoding/line/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2010 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.
-
-include ../../../Make.inc
-
-TARG=encoding/line
-GOFILES=\
-	line.go\
-
-include ../../../Make.pkg
diff --git a/src/pkg/encoding/line/line.go b/src/pkg/encoding/line/line.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 123962b1f91..00000000000
--- a/src/pkg/encoding/line/line.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,115 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2010 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.
-
-// Package line implements a Reader that reads lines delimited by '\n' or
-// ' \r\n'.
-package line
-
-import (
-	"io"
-	"os"
-)
-
-// Reader reads lines, delimited by '\n' or \r\n', from an io.Reader.
-type Reader struct {
-	buf      []byte
-	consumed int
-	in       io.Reader
-	err      os.Error
-}
-
-// NewReader returns a new Reader that will read successive
-// lines from the input Reader.
-func NewReader(input io.Reader, maxLineLength int) *Reader {
-	return &Reader{
-		buf:      make([]byte, 0, maxLineLength),
-		consumed: 0,
-		in:       input,
-	}
-}
-
-// Read reads from any buffered data past the last line read, or from the underlying
-// io.Reader if the buffer is empty.
-func (l *Reader) Read(p []byte) (n int, err os.Error) {
-	l.removeConsumedFromBuffer()
-	if len(l.buf) > 0 {
-		n = copy(p, l.buf)
-		l.consumed += n
-		return
-	}
-	return l.in.Read(p)
-}
-
-func (l *Reader) removeConsumedFromBuffer() {
-	if l.consumed > 0 {
-		n := copy(l.buf, l.buf[l.consumed:])
-		l.buf = l.buf[:n]
-		l.consumed = 0
-	}
-}
-
-// ReadLine tries to return a single line, not including the end-of-line bytes.
-// If the line was found to be longer than the maximum length then isPrefix is
-// set and the beginning of the line is returned. The rest of the line will be
-// returned from future calls. isPrefix will be false when returning the last
-// fragment of the line.  The returned buffer points into the internal state of
-// the Reader and is only valid until the next call to ReadLine. ReadLine
-// either returns a non-nil line or it returns an error, never both.
-func (l *Reader) ReadLine() (line []byte, isPrefix bool, err os.Error) {
-	l.removeConsumedFromBuffer()
-
-	if len(l.buf) == 0 && l.err != nil {
-		err = l.err
-		return
-	}
-
-	scannedTo := 0
-
-	for {
-		i := scannedTo
-		for ; i < len(l.buf); i++ {
-			if l.buf[i] == '\r' && len(l.buf) > i+1 && l.buf[i+1] == '\n' {
-				line = l.buf[:i]
-				l.consumed = i + 2
-				return
-			} else if l.buf[i] == '\n' {
-				line = l.buf[:i]
-				l.consumed = i + 1
-				return
-			}
-		}
-
-		if i == cap(l.buf) {
-			line = l.buf[:i]
-			l.consumed = i
-			isPrefix = true
-			return
-		}
-
-		if l.err != nil {
-			line = l.buf
-			l.consumed = i
-			return
-		}
-
-		// We don't want to rescan the input that we just scanned.
-		// However, we need to back up one byte because the last byte
-		// could have been a '\r' and we do need to rescan that.
-		scannedTo = i
-		if scannedTo > 0 {
-			scannedTo--
-		}
-		oldLen := len(l.buf)
-		l.buf = l.buf[:cap(l.buf)]
-		n, readErr := l.in.Read(l.buf[oldLen:])
-		l.buf = l.buf[:oldLen+n]
-		if readErr != nil {
-			l.err = readErr
-			if len(l.buf) == 0 {
-				return nil, false, readErr
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	panic("unreachable")
-}
diff --git a/src/pkg/encoding/line/line_test.go b/src/pkg/encoding/line/line_test.go
deleted file mode 100644
index ff3d51669b5..00000000000
--- a/src/pkg/encoding/line/line_test.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,133 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2010 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.
-
-package line
-
-import (
-	"bytes"
-	"io"
-	"io/ioutil"
-	"os"
-	"testing"
-)
-
-var testOutput = []byte("0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy")
-var testInput = []byte("012\n345\n678\n9ab\ncde\nfgh\nijk\nlmn\nopq\nrst\nuvw\nxy")
-var testInputrn = []byte("012\r\n345\r\n678\r\n9ab\r\ncde\r\nfgh\r\nijk\r\nlmn\r\nopq\r\nrst\r\nuvw\r\nxy\r\n\n\r\n")
-
-// TestReader wraps a []byte and returns reads of a specific length.
-type testReader struct {
-	data   []byte
-	stride int
-}
-
-func (t *testReader) Read(buf []byte) (n int, err os.Error) {
-	n = t.stride
-	if n > len(t.data) {
-		n = len(t.data)
-	}
-	if n > len(buf) {
-		n = len(buf)
-	}
-	copy(buf, t.data)
-	t.data = t.data[n:]
-	if len(t.data) == 0 {
-		err = os.EOF
-	}
-	return
-}
-
-func testLineReader(t *testing.T, input []byte) {
-	for stride := 1; stride < len(input); stride++ {
-		done := 0
-		reader := testReader{input, stride}
-		l := NewReader(&reader, len(input)+1)
-		for {
-			line, isPrefix, err := l.ReadLine()
-			if len(line) > 0 && err != nil {
-				t.Errorf("ReadLine returned both data and error: %s", err)
-			}
-			if isPrefix {
-				t.Errorf("ReadLine returned prefix")
-			}
-			if err != nil {
-				if err != os.EOF {
-					t.Fatalf("Got unknown error: %s", err)
-				}
-				break
-			}
-			if want := testOutput[done : done+len(line)]; !bytes.Equal(want, line) {
-				t.Errorf("Bad line at stride %d: want: %x got: %x", stride, want, line)
-			}
-			done += len(line)
-		}
-		if done != len(testOutput) {
-			t.Error("ReadLine didn't return everything")
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestReader(t *testing.T) {
-	testLineReader(t, testInput)
-	testLineReader(t, testInputrn)
-}
-
-func TestLineTooLong(t *testing.T) {
-	buf := bytes.NewBuffer([]byte("aaabbbcc\n"))
-	l := NewReader(buf, 3)
-	line, isPrefix, err := l.ReadLine()
-	if !isPrefix || !bytes.Equal(line, []byte("aaa")) || err != nil {
-		t.Errorf("bad result for first line: %x %s", line, err)
-	}
-	line, isPrefix, err = l.ReadLine()
-	if !isPrefix || !bytes.Equal(line, []byte("bbb")) || err != nil {
-		t.Errorf("bad result for second line: %x", line)
-	}
-	line, isPrefix, err = l.ReadLine()
-	if isPrefix || !bytes.Equal(line, []byte("cc")) || err != nil {
-		t.Errorf("bad result for third line: %x", line)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestReadAfterLines(t *testing.T) {
-	line1 := "line1"
-	restData := "line2\nline 3\n"
-	inbuf := bytes.NewBuffer([]byte(line1 + "\n" + restData))
-	outbuf := new(bytes.Buffer)
-	maxLineLength := len(line1) + len(restData)/2
-	l := NewReader(inbuf, maxLineLength)
-	line, isPrefix, err := l.ReadLine()
-	if isPrefix || err != nil || string(line) != line1 {
-		t.Errorf("bad result for first line: isPrefix=%v err=%v line=%q", isPrefix, err, string(line))
-	}
-	n, err := io.Copy(outbuf, l)
-	if int(n) != len(restData) || err != nil {
-		t.Errorf("bad result for Read: n=%d err=%v", n, err)
-	}
-	if outbuf.String() != restData {
-		t.Errorf("bad result for Read: got %q; expected %q", outbuf.String(), restData)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestReadEmptyBuffer(t *testing.T) {
-	l := NewReader(bytes.NewBuffer(nil), 10)
-	line, isPrefix, err := l.ReadLine()
-	if err != os.EOF {
-		t.Errorf("expected EOF from ReadLine, got '%s' %t %s", line, isPrefix, err)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestLinesAfterRead(t *testing.T) {
-	l := NewReader(bytes.NewBuffer([]byte("foo")), 10)
-	_, err := ioutil.ReadAll(l)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Error(err)
-		return
-	}
-
-	line, isPrefix, err := l.ReadLine()
-	if err != os.EOF {
-		t.Errorf("expected EOF from ReadLine, got '%s' %t %s", line, isPrefix, err)
-	}
-}