diff --git a/Config.in.legacy b/Config.in.legacy
index 94092d38f4..6473947a9a 100644
--- a/Config.in.legacy
+++ b/Config.in.legacy
@@ -1164,12 +1164,6 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_DIALOG
 	help
 	  Package was removed together with python 2.7 support.
 
-config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_CONFIGOBJ
-	bool "python-configobj removed"
-	select BR2_LEGACY
-	help
-	  Package was removed together with python 2.7 support.
-
 config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_YIELDFROM
 	bool "python-yieldfrom removed"
 	select BR2_LEGACY
diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 0d51c6af1e..0472ec2daf 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -1051,6 +1051,7 @@ menu "External python modules"
 	source "package/python-colorama/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-colorlog/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-colorzero/Config.in"
+	source "package/python-configobj/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-configshell-fb/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-constantly/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-construct/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/python-configobj/Config.in b/package/python-configobj/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..365aa17fcb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-configobj/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_CONFIGOBJ
+	bool "python-configobj"
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_SIX # runtime
+	help
+	  Config file reading, writing and validation.
+
+	  https://github.com/DiffSK/configobj
diff --git a/package/python-configobj/python-configobj.hash b/package/python-configobj/python-configobj.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..682dc987f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-configobj/python-configobj.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/configobj/json
+md5  8dda7b31bb3aea87ecfe3b7a87812b17  configobj-5.0.8.tar.gz
+sha256  6f704434a07dc4f4dc7c9a745172c1cad449feb548febd9f7fe362629c627a97  configobj-5.0.8.tar.gz
+# Locally computed sha256 checksums
+sha256  0d95e648469a711f5ec1e59e6d4492150ec65d968c1ea6c6d96154a92879997a  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/python-configobj/python-configobj.mk b/package/python-configobj/python-configobj.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fe1776f79f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-configobj/python-configobj.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# python-configobj
+#
+################################################################################
+
+PYTHON_CONFIGOBJ_VERSION = 5.0.8
+PYTHON_CONFIGOBJ_SOURCE = configobj-$(PYTHON_CONFIGOBJ_VERSION).tar.gz
+PYTHON_CONFIGOBJ_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/cb/87/17d4c6d634c044ab08b11c0cd2a8a136d103713d438f8792d7be2c5148fb
+PYTHON_CONFIGOBJ_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
+PYTHON_CONFIGOBJ_LICENSE = BSD-3-Clause
+PYTHON_CONFIGOBJ_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
+
+$(eval $(python-package))