diff --git a/build-package.sh b/build-package.sh
index 30baa932b..19e88bdfe 100755
--- a/build-package.sh
+++ b/build-package.sh
@@ -123,7 +123,6 @@ TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=""
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="FIXME:Add description"
 TERMUX_PKG_FOLDERNAME=""
 TERMUX_PKG_KEEP_STATIC_LIBRARIES="false"
-TERMUX_PKG_KEEP_HEADER_FILES="false"
 TERMUX_PKG_ESSENTIAL=""
 TERMUX_PKG_CONFLICTS="" # https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-conflicts
 TERMUX_PKG_REPLACES=""
diff --git a/packages/ruby/build.sh b/packages/ruby/build.sh
index 44e068ef1..56da21324 100644
--- a/packages/ruby/build.sh
+++ b/packages/ruby/build.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_REVISION=7
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=http://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/${_MAJOR_VERSION}/ruby-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
 # libbffi is used by the fiddle extension module:
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libandroid-support, libffi, libgmp, readline, openssl, libutil"
-TERMUX_PKG_KEEP_HEADER_FILES="true"
 # Needed to fix compilation on android:
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="ac_cv_func_setgroups=no ac_cv_func_setresuid=no ac_cv_func_setreuid=no --enable-rubygems"
 # The gdbm module seems to be very little used: