diff --git a/srcpkgs/pdftk b/srcpkgs/pdftk
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..3a3e0e2c17f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/pdftk
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+pdftk-java
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/pdftk-java/template b/srcpkgs/pdftk-java/template
index 44b2a3a5e8d..f04b33e2d16 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pdftk-java/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pdftk-java/template
@@ -26,3 +26,9 @@ do_install() {
 	vman pdftk.1
 	vbin "${FILESDIR}"/pdftk
 }
+
+pdftk_package() {
+	build_style=meta
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	short_desc+=" (transitional dummy package)"
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/pdftk/files/Makefile b/srcpkgs/pdftk/files/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 126a0653b73..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/pdftk/files/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-# Based on 'Makefile.Debian', part of pdftk
-# Copyright (c) 2004-2012 Sid Steward
-
-export CXX= @CXX@
-export GCJ= gcj-6
-export GCJH= gcjh-6
-export GJAR= gjar-6
-export LIBGCJ= /usr/share/java/libgcj.jar
-export AR= @AR@
-export RM= rm
-export ARFLAGS= rs
-export RMFLAGS= -vf
-export CPPFLAGS= -DPATH_DELIM=0x2f -DASK_ABOUT_WARNINGS=false -DUNBLOCK_SIGNALS -fdollars-in-identifiers
-export CXXFLAGS= @CXXFLAGS@
-export GCJFLAGS= -Wno-all -fsource=1.3 -O2 -fPIC -L/usr/lib
-export GCJHFLAGS= -force
-export LDLIBS= @LDFLAGS@ -lgcj
-
-include Makefile.Base
diff --git a/srcpkgs/pdftk/template b/srcpkgs/pdftk/template
deleted file mode 100644
index 56af9ba6965..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/pdftk/template
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-# Template file for 'pdftk'
-pkgname=pdftk
-version=2.02
-revision=4
-build_wrksrc=${pkgname}
-hostmakedepends="unzip gcc6-gcj gcc6"
-makedepends="libgcj-devel"
-short_desc="Command-line tool for working with PDFs"
-maintainer="Helmut Pozimski <helmut@pozimski.eu>"
-license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
-homepage="https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-server/"
-distfiles="http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/${pkgname}-${version}-src.zip"
-checksum=118f6a25fd3acaafb58824dce6f97cdc07e56050e666b90e4c4ef426ea37b8c1
-nocross=yes
-
-do_build() {
-	_cxxflags="${CXXFLAGS//-fstack-clash-protection}"
-	_cxxflags="${_cxxflags//-ffile-prefix-map=\/builddir\/${pkgname}-${version}\/${build_wrksrc}=.}"
-	sed -e "s;@CXX@;g++-6;" \
-		-e "s;@AR@;$AR;" \
-		-e "s;@CXXFLAGS@;${_cxxflags};" \
-		-e "s;@LDFLAGS@;$LDFLAGS;" \
-		${FILESDIR}/Makefile > Makefile
-	make ${makejobs} || make ${makjobs}
-}
-
-do_install() {
-	vbin pdftk
-	vman ../pdftk.1
-}