diff --git a/Lib/wsgiref.egg-info b/Lib/wsgiref.egg-info
deleted file mode 100644
index c0b7893c349..00000000000
--- a/Lib/wsgiref.egg-info
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-Metadata-Version: 1.0
-Name: wsgiref
-Version: 0.1.2
-Summary: WSGI (PEP 333) Reference Library
-Author: Phillip J. Eby
-Author-email: web-sig@python.org
-License: PSF or ZPL
-Platform: UNKNOWN
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0b939456553..785761cc170 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -177,6 +177,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #12218: Removed wsgiref.egg-info.
+
 - Issue #12196: Add pipe2() to the os module. 
 
 - Issue #985064: Make plistlib more resilient to faulty input plists.