diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/crosvm/update.py b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/crosvm/update.py
index f9fc90c6b349..dee2ff904731 100755
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/crosvm/update.py
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/crosvm/update.py
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import json
 import re
 import shlex
 import subprocess
-from codecs import iterdecode
 from os.path import abspath, dirname, splitext
 from lxml import etree
 from lxml.etree import HTMLParser