diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index f8ec6a3be88f..f6b899f682ac 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-[submodule "vendor/depot_tools"]
-	path = vendor/depot_tools
-	url = https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git
 [submodule "vendor/requests"]
 	path = vendor/requests
 	url = https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests
diff --git a/vendor/depot_tools b/vendor/depot_tools
deleted file mode 160000
index 4fa73b8ca689..000000000000
--- a/vendor/depot_tools
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 4fa73b8ca6899bc69577932b80145a6bf07e4424