diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d42cb22e..3aeea12d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -160,4 +160,3 @@ Mount options:
 The directory `tools/` contains some experimental user space tools for working with composefs images.
 
 - `composefs-from-json`: convert from a [CRFS](https://github.com/google/crfs) metadata file to the binary blob.
-- `ostree-convert-commit.py`: converts an OSTree commit into a CRFS config file that writer-json can use.
diff --git a/tools/ostree-convert-commit.py b/tools/ostree-convert-commit.py
deleted file mode 100755
index e52eadc5..00000000
--- a/tools/ostree-convert-commit.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,105 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python3
-# lcfs
-# Copyright (C) 2021 Giuseppe Scrivano <giuseppe@scrivano.org>
-#
-# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-import os
-import json
-import sys
-import stat
-import gi
-import base64
-
-gi.require_version('OSTree', '1.0')
-from gi.repository import Gio, GLib, OSTree
-
-fast_query_info = "standard::name,standard::type,standard::size,standard::is-symlink,standard::symlink-target,unix::device,unix::inode,unix::mode,unix::uid,unix::gid,unix::rdev"
-
-def get_type(t):
-    types = {
-        Gio.FileType.DIRECTORY: "dir",
-        Gio.FileType.REGULAR: "reg",
-        Gio.FileType.SYMBOLIC_LINK: "symlink",
-    }
-    return types[t]
-
-def get_path(parent, name):
-    if parent == "":
-        return name
-    return "%s/%s" % (parent, name)
-
-def get_payload(csum):
-    return "%s/%s.file" % (csum[:2], csum[2:])
-
-def recurse_dir(repo, parent, d):
-    ret = []
-    children = d.enumerate_children(fast_query_info, 0, None)
-    while True:
-        it = children.iterate()
-        if it[1] == None:
-            break
-
-        i = it[1]
-        f = it[2]
-
-        xattrs = {
-        }
-        for k, v in f.get_xattrs()[1]:
-            if bytearray(k) != bytearray(b'security.selinux\x00'):
-                xattrs[bytearray(k[:-1]).decode('ascii')] = base64.b64encode(bytearray(v)).decode('ascii')
-        
-        entry = {
-            "type": get_type(i.get_file_type()),
-            "name": get_path(parent, i.get_name()),
-            "mode": i.get_attribute_uint32("unix::mode"),
-            "uid": i.get_attribute_uint32("unix::uid"),
-            "gid": i.get_attribute_uint32("unix::gid"),
-            "size": i.get_attribute_uint64("standard::size"),
-        }
-        if i.get_file_type() == Gio.FileType.REGULAR:
-            csum = f.get_checksum()
-            entry["x-payload"] = get_payload(csum)
-        elif i.get_file_type() == Gio.FileType.SYMBOLIC_LINK:
-            entry["linkName"] = i.get_attribute_byte_string("standard::symlink-target")
-
-        if len(xattrs) > 0:
-            entry["xattrs"] = xattrs
-
-        ret.append(entry)
-
-        if i.get_file_type() == Gio.FileType.DIRECTORY:
-            name = i.get_name()
-            child = Gio.File.get_child(d, name)
-            entries = recurse_dir(repo, get_path(parent, name), child)
-            ret = ret + entries
-    return ret
-
-def read_commit(repo, rev):
-    commit = repo.read_commit(rev)[1]
-
-    return recurse_dir(repo, "", commit)
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    repo = OSTree.Repo.new(Gio.File.new_for_path(sys.argv[1]))
-    repo.open(None)
-
-    entries = read_commit(repo, sys.argv[2])
-
-    j = {
-        "version": 1,
-        "entries": entries,
-    }
-
-    json.dump(j, sys.stdout, indent=4)