diff --git a/lib/WebGUI/Asset/Template.pm b/lib/WebGUI/Asset/Template.pm
index 19d8ccb89..e79f71664 100644
--- a/lib/WebGUI/Asset/Template.pm
+++ b/lib/WebGUI/Asset/Template.pm
@@ -757,30 +757,6 @@ sub removeAttachments {
     $db->write($rmsql, \@params);
 }
 
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-=head2 update
-
-Override update from Asset.pm to handle backwards compatibility with the old
-packages that contain headBlocks. This will be removed in the future.  Don't plan
-on this being here.
-
-=cut
-
-sub update {
-    my $self = shift;
-    my $requestedProperties = shift;
-    my $properties = clone($requestedProperties);
-
-    if (exists $properties->{headBlock}) {
-        $properties->{extraHeadTags} .= $properties->{headBlock};
-        delete $properties->{headBlock};
-    }
-
-    $self->SUPER::update($properties);
-}
-
-
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 =head2 www_edit