diff --git a/drools-quarkus-extension/drools-quarkus/pom.xml b/drools-quarkus-extension/drools-quarkus/pom.xml
index b30722604f10..9c5057e3ccef 100644
--- a/drools-quarkus-extension/drools-quarkus/pom.xml
+++ b/drools-quarkus-extension/drools-quarkus/pom.xml
@@ -149,29 +149,6 @@
                 <groupId>io.smallrye</groupId>
                 <artifactId>jandex-maven-plugin</artifactId>
             </plugin>
-            <plugin>
-                <!-- Remove comments from META-INF/quarkus-extension.properties -->
-                <!-- This is needed because the file generated by quarkus contains a timestamp in a comment that makes the build not reproducible -->
-                <!-- This workaround can be removed when drools will be migrated to quarkus release containing this fix https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/pull/38365 -->
-                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
-                <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.1.1</version>
-                <executions>
-                    <execution>
-                        <id>Run Script</id>
-                        <phase>prepare-package</phase>
-                        <goals>
-                            <goal>java</goal>
-                        </goals>
-                        <configuration>
-                            <mainClass>org.drools.util.RemoveCommentsMain</mainClass>
-                            <arguments>
-                                <argument>${project.basedir}/target/classes/META-INF/quarkus-extension.properties</argument>
-                            </arguments>
-                        </configuration>
-                    </execution>
-                </executions>
-            </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </build>
 </project>
diff --git a/drools-util/src/main/java/org/drools/util/RemoveCommentsMain.java b/drools-util/src/main/java/org/drools/util/RemoveCommentsMain.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 024320a8b289..000000000000
--- a/drools-util/src/main/java/org/drools/util/RemoveCommentsMain.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
-package org.drools.util;
-
-import org.slf4j.Logger;
-import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.nio.file.Files;
-import java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException;
-import java.nio.file.Path;
-import java.util.stream.Collectors;
-
-public class RemoveCommentsMain {
-
-    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(RemoveCommentsMain.class);
-
-    public static void main(String... args) {
-        final String ignoreMissingFilesArgument = args[0];
-        final boolean ignoreMissingFiles = Boolean.parseBoolean(ignoreMissingFilesArgument);
-        for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) {
-            // If the ignoreMissingFiles argument is defined, skip it in this iteration.
-            if ((ignoreMissingFiles || "false".equalsIgnoreCase(ignoreMissingFilesArgument)) && i == 0) {
-                continue;
-            } else {
-                try {
-                    final String fileName = args[i];
-                    final String result = removeComments(fileName, ignoreMissingFiles);
-                    if (result != null) {
-                        Files.write(Path.of(fileName), result.getBytes());
-                    }
-                } catch (IOException e) {
-                    throw new RuntimeException(e);
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    static String removeComments(String fileName, final boolean ignoreMissingFiles) {
-        try (var lines = Files.lines(Path.of(fileName))) {
-            return lines.filter(line -> !line.startsWith("#")).collect(Collectors.joining("\n"));
-        } catch (IOException e) {
-            // Ignore non-existant files.
-            if (ignoreMissingFiles && e instanceof NoSuchFileException) {
-                LOGGER.info("Ignoring file that doesn't exist: " + fileName);
-                return null;
-            } else {
-                throw new RuntimeException(e);
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-}
diff --git a/drools-util/src/test/java/org/drools/util/RemoveCommentsTest.java b/drools-util/src/test/java/org/drools/util/RemoveCommentsTest.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 1b529b5acc77..000000000000
--- a/drools-util/src/test/java/org/drools/util/RemoveCommentsTest.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-package org.drools.util;
-
-import org.junit.Test;
-
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
-
-public class RemoveCommentsTest {
-
-    @Test
-    public void test() {
-        String result = RemoveCommentsMain.removeComments("src/test/resources/commented.properties", false);
-        String expected = "provides-capabilities=org.drools.drl\ndeployment-artifact=org.drools\\:drools-quarkus-deployment\\:999-SNAPSHOT";
-        assertEquals(expected, result);
-    }
-}