diff --git a/changes/ticket30076 b/changes/ticket30076
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1334bc4603
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/ticket30076
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+  o Removed features:
+    - Remove obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 3ea578bbba..e65e960d7f 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2457,7 +2457,6 @@ AC_CONFIG_FILES([
 	Doxyfile
 	Makefile
 	config.rust
-	contrib/dist/suse/tor.sh
 	contrib/operator-tools/tor.logrotate
 	contrib/dist/torctl
 	contrib/dist/tor.service
diff --git a/contrib/README b/contrib/README
index 3a94bb5016..735fcf4c9f 100644
--- a/contrib/README
+++ b/contrib/README
@@ -34,8 +34,6 @@ tools.  Everybody likes to write init scripts differently, it seems.
 
 tor.service is a sample service file for use with systemd.
 
-The suse/ subdirectory contains files used by the suse distribution.
-
 operator-tools/ -- Tools for Tor relay operators
 ------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/contrib/dist/suse/tor.sh.in b/contrib/dist/suse/tor.sh.in
deleted file mode 100644
index b7e9005eb5..0000000000
--- a/contrib/dist/suse/tor.sh.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,118 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# Copyright (c) 2006-2007 Andrew Lewman
-#
-# tor    The Onion Router
-#
-# Startup/shutdown script for tor. This is a wrapper around torctl;
-# torctl does the actual work in a relatively system-independent, or at least
-# distribution-independent, way, and this script deals with fitting the
-# whole thing into the conventions of the particular system at hand.
-#
-# These next couple of lines "declare" tor for the "chkconfig" program,
-# originally from SGI, used on Red Hat/Fedora and probably elsewhere.
-#
-# chkconfig: 2345 90 10
-# description: Onion Router - A low-latency anonymous proxy
-#
-
-### BEGIN INIT INFO
-# Provides: tor
-# Required-Start: $remote_fs $network
-# Required-Stop: $remote_fs $network
-# Default-Start: 3 5
-# Default-Stop: 0 1 2 6
-# Short-Description: Start the tor daemon
-# Description:  Start the tor daemon:  the anon-proxy server
-### END INIT INFO
-
-. /etc/rc.status
-
-# Shell functions sourced from /etc/rc.status:
-#      rc_check         check and set local and overall rc status
-#      rc_status        check and set local and overall rc status
-#      rc_status -v     ditto but be verbose in local rc status
-#      rc_status -v -r  ditto and clear the local rc status
-#      rc_failed        set local and overall rc status to failed
-#      rc_reset         clear local rc status (overall remains)
-#      rc_exit          exit appropriate to overall rc status
-
-# First reset status of this service
-rc_reset
-
-# Increase open file descriptors a reasonable amount
-ulimit -n 8192
-
-TORCTL=@BINDIR@/torctl
-
-# torctl will use these environment variables
-TORUSER=@TORUSER@
-export TORUSER
-TORGROUP=@TORGROUP@
-export TORGROUP
-
-TOR_DAEMON_PID_DIR="@LOCALSTATEDIR@/run/tor"
-
-if [ -x /bin/su ] ; then
-    SUPROG=/bin/su
-elif [ -x /sbin/su ] ; then
-    SUPROG=/sbin/su
-elif [ -x /usr/bin/su ] ; then
-    SUPROG=/usr/bin/su
-elif [ -x /usr/sbin/su ] ; then
-    SUPROG=/usr/sbin/su
-else
-    SUPROG=/bin/su
-fi
-
-case "$1" in
-
-    start)
-    echo "Starting tor daemon"
-
-    if [ ! -d $TOR_DAEMON_PID_DIR ] ; then
-        mkdir -p $TOR_DAEMON_PID_DIR
-        chown $TORUSER:$TORGROUP $TOR_DAEMON_PID_DIR
-    fi
-
-    ## Start daemon with startproc(8). If this fails
-    ## the echo return value is set appropriate.
-
-    startproc -f $TORCTL start
-    # Remember status and be verbose
-    rc_status -v
-    ;;
-
-    stop)
-    echo "Stopping tor daemon" 
-    startproc -f $TORCTL stop
-    # Remember status and be verbose
-    rc_status -v
-    ;;
-
-    restart)
-    echo "Restarting tor daemon" 
-    startproc -f $TORCTL restart
-    # Remember status and be verbose
-    rc_status -v
-    ;;
-
-    reload)
-    echo "Reloading tor daemon" 
-    startproc -f $TORCTL reload
-    # Remember status and be verbose
-    rc_status -v
-    ;;
-
-    status)
-    startproc -f $TORCTL status
-    # Remember status and be verbose
-    rc_status -v
-    ;;
-
-    *)
-    echo "Usage: $0 (start|stop|restart|reload|status)"
-    RETVAL=1
-esac
-
-rc_exit
diff --git a/contrib/include.am b/contrib/include.am
index 9f4775632c..8dd8593304 100644
--- a/contrib/include.am
+++ b/contrib/include.am
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ EXTRA_DIST+= \
 	contrib/README					\
 	contrib/client-tools/torify			\
 	contrib/dist/rc.subr				\
-	contrib/dist/suse/tor.sh.in			\
 	contrib/dist/torctl				\
 	contrib/dist/tor.service.in			\
 	contrib/operator-tools/tor-exit-notice.html	\