diff --git a/hadoop-client-modules/hadoop-client-api/pom.xml b/hadoop-client-modules/hadoop-client-api/pom.xml
index 52263b3cfc..b4b81011eb 100644
--- a/hadoop-client-modules/hadoop-client-api/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-client-modules/hadoop-client-api/pom.xml
@@ -126,12 +126,6 @@
                         <exclude>org/apache/hadoop/yarn/client/api/package-info.class</exclude>
                       </excludes>
                     </filter>
-                    <filter>
-                      <artifact>org.apache.hadoop:*</artifact>
-                      <excludes>
-                        <exclude>org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/protocol/package-info.class</exclude>
-                      </excludes>
-                    </filter>
                   </filters>
                   <relocations>
                     <relocation>
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/protocol/package-info.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/protocol/package-info.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 2174359554..0000000000
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/protocol/package-info.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-/**
- * This package provides classes for the namenode server protocol.
- */
-@InterfaceAudience.Private
-@InterfaceStability.Evolving
-package org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.protocol;
-
-import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
-import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability;