diff --git a/notNeededPackages.json b/notNeededPackages.json
index 9725414e8a..da87d000e5 100644
--- a/notNeededPackages.json
+++ b/notNeededPackages.json
@@ -1410,6 +1410,12 @@
             "sourceRepoURL": "https://github.com/fastify/fastify-static",
             "asOfVersion": "2.2.1"
         },
+        {
+            "libraryName": "favicons-webpack-plugin",
+            "typingsPackageName": "favicons-webpack-plugin",
+            "sourceRepoURL": "https://github.com/jantimon/favicons-webpack-plugin",
+            "asOfVersion": "2.1.0"
+        },
         {
             "libraryName": "@types/facebook-js-sdk",
             "typingsPackageName": "fb",
diff --git a/types/favicons-webpack-plugin/favicons-webpack-plugin-tests.ts b/types/favicons-webpack-plugin/favicons-webpack-plugin-tests.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 1e8498d5f1..0000000000
--- a/types/favicons-webpack-plugin/favicons-webpack-plugin-tests.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
-import FaviconsWebpackPlugin = require('favicons-webpack-plugin');
-
-new FaviconsWebpackPlugin();
-
-new FaviconsWebpackPlugin('/path/to/logo.png');
-
-const optionsArray: FaviconsWebpackPlugin.Options[] = [
-    // Default parameters
-    {
-        logo: '/path/to/logo.png',
-        cache: true,
-        inject: true,
-        favicons: {},
-        prefix: 'assets/',
-    },
-    // "Advanced Usage" example from documentation
-    {
-        logo: '/path/to/logo.png',
-        cache: true,
-        publicPath: '/static',
-        outputPath: '/public/static',
-        prefix: 'assets/',
-        inject: true,
-        favicons: {},
-    },
-    // "Basic" example from documentation
-    {
-        logo: '/path/to/logo.png',
-        mode: 'webapp',
-        devMode: 'webapp',
-        favicons: {
-            appName: 'my-app',
-            appDescription: 'My awesome App',
-            developerName: 'Me',
-            developerURL: null,
-            background: '#ddd',
-            theme_color: '#333',
-            icons: {
-                coast: false,
-                yandex: false,
-            },
-        },
-    },
-    // "Handling Multiple HTML Files" example from documentation
-    {
-        logo: 'logo.svg',
-        inject: htmlPlugin => htmlPlugin.options.filename === 'a.html',
-    },
-];
-
-const plugins: FaviconsWebpackPlugin[] = optionsArray.map(options => new FaviconsWebpackPlugin(options));
diff --git a/types/favicons-webpack-plugin/index.d.ts b/types/favicons-webpack-plugin/index.d.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index ab680f1bf1..0000000000
--- a/types/favicons-webpack-plugin/index.d.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-// Type definitions for favicons-webpack-plugin 1.0
-// Project: https://github.com/jantimon/favicons-webpack-plugin
-// Definitions by: Paweł Meller <https://github.com/pmeller>
-// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
-// TypeScript Version: 2.3
-
-import { Plugin } from 'webpack';
-import { Configuration as FaviconsConfiguration } from 'favicons';
-import HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
-
-export = FaviconsWebpackPlugin;
-
-declare class FaviconsWebpackPlugin extends Plugin {
-    constructor(options?: string | FaviconsWebpackPlugin.Options);
-}
-
-declare namespace FaviconsWebpackPlugin {
-    type Mode = 'webapp' | 'light';
-
-    interface Options {
-        logo: string;
-        mode?: Mode;
-        devMode?: Mode;
-        cache?: boolean;
-        publicPath?: string;
-        outputPath?: string;
-        prefix?: string;
-        inject?: boolean | ((htmlPlugin: HtmlWebpackPlugin & { options: HtmlWebpackPlugin.Options }) => boolean);
-        favicons?: Partial<FaviconsConfiguration>;
-    }
-}
diff --git a/types/favicons-webpack-plugin/tsconfig.json b/types/favicons-webpack-plugin/tsconfig.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 464f854cc3..0000000000
--- a/types/favicons-webpack-plugin/tsconfig.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "compilerOptions": {
-        "module": "commonjs",
-        "lib": [
-            "es6"
-        ],
-        "noImplicitAny": true,
-        "noImplicitThis": true,
-        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
-        "strictNullChecks": true,
-        "baseUrl": "../",
-        "typeRoots": [
-            "../"
-        ],
-        "types": [],
-        "noEmit": true,
-        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
-    },
-    "files": [
-        "index.d.ts",
-        "favicons-webpack-plugin-tests.ts"
-    ]
-}
diff --git a/types/favicons-webpack-plugin/tslint.json b/types/favicons-webpack-plugin/tslint.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 3db14f85ea..0000000000
--- a/types/favicons-webpack-plugin/tslint.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }