diff --git a/src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES b/src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES
index ba4cf2c5bfc5d6c621883b4273890c3daae3c207..b76fe1a02a3bca399434ac653a4c4d27c5b64b12 100644
--- a/src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES
+++ b/src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ For Major Releases
 	o document all new features
 	o update help output from inside the programs
 	o doc/src/sgml/ref manual pages
-	o convert any literal "<" and ">" characters, use tools/find_lt
 	o update the sizes specified for installation requirements
 	  (doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml, section "install-requirements")
 	o update the shared memory size requirement table
diff --git a/src/tools/find_lt b/src/tools/find_lt
deleted file mode 100755
index f2f5f05a6def703c91a467d749abb8d7ec39ff36..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/src/tools/find_lt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-# src/tools/find_lt
-# SGML is fine with ">"
-
-grep "$@" '<[^]a-z0-9"/!-]' *.sgml ref/*.sgml