diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 28f7ccbbb..5dcf98717 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ project(
   subproject_dir : 'src',
   default_options : [
     'localstatedir=/nix/var',
-    # hack for trailing newline
   ],
   meson_version : '>= 1.1',
 )
diff --git a/src/libexpr-test-support/include/nix/expr/tests/meson.build b/src/libexpr-test-support/include/nix/expr/tests/meson.build
index 84ec401ab..6575d11c8 100644
--- a/src/libexpr-test-support/include/nix/expr/tests/meson.build
+++ b/src/libexpr-test-support/include/nix/expr/tests/meson.build
@@ -6,5 +6,4 @@ headers = files(
   'libexpr.hh',
   'nix_api_expr.hh',
   'value/context.hh',
-  # hack for trailing newline
 )
diff --git a/src/libstore/linux/include/nix/store/meson.build b/src/libstore/linux/include/nix/store/meson.build
index c8e6a8268..a664aefa9 100644
--- a/src/libstore/linux/include/nix/store/meson.build
+++ b/src/libstore/linux/include/nix/store/meson.build
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ include_dirs += include_directories('../..')
 
 headers += files(
   'personality.hh',
-  # hack for trailing newline
 )
diff --git a/src/libstore/linux/meson.build b/src/libstore/linux/meson.build
index 5771cead5..6fc193cf8 100644
--- a/src/libstore/linux/meson.build
+++ b/src/libstore/linux/meson.build
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 sources += files(
   'personality.cc',
-  # hack for trailing newline
 )
 
 subdir('include/nix/store')
diff --git a/src/libutil/freebsd/include/nix/util/meson.build b/src/libutil/freebsd/include/nix/util/meson.build
index 4b7d78624..561c8796c 100644
--- a/src/libutil/freebsd/include/nix/util/meson.build
+++ b/src/libutil/freebsd/include/nix/util/meson.build
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ include_dirs += include_directories('../..')
 
 headers += files(
   'freebsd-jail.hh',
-  # hack for trailing newline
 )
diff --git a/src/libutil/freebsd/meson.build b/src/libutil/freebsd/meson.build
index d9b91a03d..8ffdc2832 100644
--- a/src/libutil/freebsd/meson.build
+++ b/src/libutil/freebsd/meson.build
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 sources += files(
   'freebsd-jail.cc',
-  # hack for trailing newline
 )
 
 subdir('include/nix/util')
diff --git a/src/libutil/linux/include/nix/util/meson.build b/src/libutil/linux/include/nix/util/meson.build
index ec7030c49..e28ad8e05 100644
--- a/src/libutil/linux/include/nix/util/meson.build
+++ b/src/libutil/linux/include/nix/util/meson.build
@@ -5,5 +5,4 @@ include_dirs += include_directories('../..')
 headers += files(
   'cgroup.hh',
   'linux-namespaces.hh',
-  # hack for trailing newline
 )
diff --git a/src/libutil/linux/meson.build b/src/libutil/linux/meson.build
index 230dd46f3..b8053a5bb 100644
--- a/src/libutil/linux/meson.build
+++ b/src/libutil/linux/meson.build
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 sources += files(
   'cgroup.cc',
   'linux-namespaces.cc',
-  # hack for trailing newline
 )
 
 subdir('include/nix/util')
diff --git a/src/libutil/windows/include/nix/util/meson.build b/src/libutil/windows/include/nix/util/meson.build
index 5d0ace929..1bd56c4bd 100644
--- a/src/libutil/windows/include/nix/util/meson.build
+++ b/src/libutil/windows/include/nix/util/meson.build
@@ -6,5 +6,4 @@ headers += files(
   'signals-impl.hh',
   'windows-async-pipe.hh',
   'windows-error.hh',
-  # hack for trailing newline
 )
diff --git a/src/perl/t/meson.build b/src/perl/t/meson.build
index 5e75920ac..dbd1139f3 100644
--- a/src/perl/t/meson.build
+++ b/src/perl/t/meson.build
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 
 nix_perl_tests = files(
   'init.t',
-  # hack for trailing newline
 )
 
 
diff --git a/tests/functional/plugins/meson.build b/tests/functional/plugins/meson.build
index 41050ffc1..ae66e3036 100644
--- a/tests/functional/plugins/meson.build
+++ b/tests/functional/plugins/meson.build
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ libplugintest = shared_module(
   'plugintest.cc',
   dependencies : [
     dependency('nix-expr'),
-    # hack for trailing newline
   ],
   build_by_default : false,
 )
diff --git a/tests/functional/test-libstoreconsumer/meson.build b/tests/functional/test-libstoreconsumer/meson.build
index ce566035f..e5a1cc182 100644
--- a/tests/functional/test-libstoreconsumer/meson.build
+++ b/tests/functional/test-libstoreconsumer/meson.build
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ libstoreconsumer_tester = executable(
   'main.cc',
   dependencies : [
     dependency('nix-store'),
-    # hack for trailing newline
   ],
   build_by_default : false,
 )