diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-repository-layer/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/repository/metadata/RepositoryMetadataWriter.java b/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-repository-layer/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/repository/metadata/RepositoryMetadataWriter.java
index 0eb06b225..850210eae 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-repository-layer/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/repository/metadata/RepositoryMetadataWriter.java
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-repository-layer/src/main/java/org/apache/archiva/repository/metadata/RepositoryMetadataWriter.java
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileWriter;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.Writer;
-import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Comparator;
 import java.util.Iterator;