diff --git a/notNeededPackages.json b/notNeededPackages.json
index c0d0abf55d..40d8066655 100644
--- a/notNeededPackages.json
+++ b/notNeededPackages.json
@@ -2886,6 +2886,12 @@
             "sourceRepoURL": "https://github.com/react-dnd/react-dnd",
             "asOfVersion": "3.0.2"
         },
+        {
+            "libraryName": "react-dnd-touch-backend",
+            "typingsPackageName": "react-dnd-touch-backend",
+            "sourceRepoURL": "https://github.com/react-dnd/react-dnd",
+            "asOfVersion": "0.5.0"
+        },
         {
             "libraryName": "react-dropzone",
             "typingsPackageName": "react-dropzone",
diff --git a/types/react-dnd-touch-backend/index.d.ts b/types/react-dnd-touch-backend/index.d.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index e06a4106e7..0000000000
--- a/types/react-dnd-touch-backend/index.d.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-// Type definitions for react-dnd-touch-backend 0.4
-// Project: https://github.com/yahoo/react-dnd-touch-backend#readme
-// Definitions by: Daniel Król <https://github.com/mleko>,
-//                 Janeene Beeforth <https://github.com/dawnmist>
-//                 Adam Haglund <https://github.com/beeequeue>
-// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
-// TypeScript Version: 2.8
-
-import { BackendFactory } from 'dnd-core';
-
-export default function createTouchBackend(option?: TouchBackendOptions): BackendFactory;
-
-export interface TouchBackendOptions {
-    /**
-     * Support mouse events as well as touch events.
-     */
-    enableMouseEvents?: boolean;
-    /**
-     * Can cancel drag by hitting Escape if enableKeyboardEvents option is set to true
-     */
-    enableKeyboardEvents?: boolean;
-    /**
-     * Number of milliseconds that the item needs to be touched before the touch is considered the start of a drag.
-     * This is used to allow both flick-to-scroll and drag-n-drop on objects in a list.
-     */
-    delayTouchStart?: number;
-    /**
-     * Number of milliseconds that the item needs to be clicked on before the click is considered the start of a drag.
-     */
-    delayMouseStart?: number;
-    /**
-     * Number of milliseconds delay before the touch/click is considered a drag.
-     * @deprecated replaced by delayTouchStart and delayMouseStart, but is still supported at present.
-     */
-    delay?: number;
-    /**
-     * Specifies the pixel distance moved before a drag is signaled. Default 0.
-     */
-    touchSlop?: number;
-    /**
-     * If true, prevents the contextmenu event from canceling a drag. Default false.
-     */
-    ignoreContextMenu?: boolean;
-    /**
-     * Specifies ranges of angles in degrees that drag events should be ignored. This is useful when you want to allow
-     * the user to scroll in a particular direction instead of dragging. Degrees move clockwise, 0/360 pointing to the
-     * left. Default: undefined
-     */
-    scrollAngleRanges?: ReadonlyArray<{ start?: number, end?: number }>;
-}
diff --git a/types/react-dnd-touch-backend/package.json b/types/react-dnd-touch-backend/package.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 7f98b8bee8..0000000000
--- a/types/react-dnd-touch-backend/package.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "private": true,
-    "dependencies": {
-        "dnd-core": "^4.0.5"
-    }
-}
diff --git a/types/react-dnd-touch-backend/react-dnd-touch-backend-tests.ts b/types/react-dnd-touch-backend/react-dnd-touch-backend-tests.ts
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index 77da6f241f..0000000000
--- a/types/react-dnd-touch-backend/react-dnd-touch-backend-tests.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-import { createDragDropManager } from "dnd-core";
-import TouchBackend from "react-dnd-touch-backend";
-
-const context = {};
-
-const dndComponent = createDragDropManager(TouchBackend(), context);
-const dndComponentMouseEvents = createDragDropManager(TouchBackend({enableMouseEvents: true}), context);
-const dndComponentDelayTouchStart = createDragDropManager(TouchBackend({delayTouchStart: 200}), context);
-const dndComponentDelayMouseStart = createDragDropManager(TouchBackend({enableMouseEvents: true, delayMouseStart: 100}), context);
-const dndComponentKeyboardEvents = createDragDropManager(TouchBackend({enableKeyboardEvents: true}), context);
-const dndComponentOldDelay = createDragDropManager(TouchBackend({delay: 300}), context);
-const dndComponentAllCurrentEvents = createDragDropManager(TouchBackend(
-    {enableKeyboardEvents: true, enableMouseEvents: true, delayMouseStart: 100, delayTouchStart: 200}), context);
-const dndComponentWithScrollAngleRanges = createDragDropManager(TouchBackend(
-    { scrollAngleRanges: [{ start: 0, end: 0 }, { start: 0 }, { end: 0 }] }), context);
-const dndComponentWithTouchSlop = createDragDropManager(TouchBackend({ touchSlop: 0 }), context);
-const dndComponentWithIgnoreContextMenu = createDragDropManager(TouchBackend({ ignoreContextMenu: true }), context);
diff --git a/types/react-dnd-touch-backend/tsconfig.json b/types/react-dnd-touch-backend/tsconfig.json
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index de3b6da377..0000000000
--- a/types/react-dnd-touch-backend/tsconfig.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "compilerOptions": {
-        "module": "commonjs",
-        "lib": [
-            "es6",
-            "dom"
-        ],
-        "noImplicitAny": true,
-        "noImplicitThis": true,
-        "strictNullChecks": true,
-        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
-        "baseUrl": "../",
-        "typeRoots": [
-            "../"
-        ],
-        "types": [],
-        "noEmit": true,
-        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
-    },
-    "files": [
-        "index.d.ts",
-        "react-dnd-touch-backend-tests.ts"
-    ]
-}
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diff --git a/types/react-dnd-touch-backend/tslint.json b/types/react-dnd-touch-backend/tslint.json
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index 3db14f85ea..0000000000
--- a/types/react-dnd-touch-backend/tslint.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }