diff --git a/notNeededPackages.json b/notNeededPackages.json
index 2ac26a2419..65a2516a08 100644
--- a/notNeededPackages.json
+++ b/notNeededPackages.json
@@ -120,6 +120,12 @@
             "sourceRepoURL": "https://github.com/mikedeboer/node-github",
             "asOfVersion": "7.1.0"
         },
+        {
+            "libraryName": "gulp-typescript",
+            "typingsPackageName": "gulp-typescript",
+            "sourceRepoURL": "https://github.com/ivogabe/gulp-typescript",
+            "asOfVersion": "2.13.0"
+        },
         {
             "libraryName": "Facebook's Immutable",
             "typingsPackageName": "immutable",
diff --git a/types/gulp-typescript/gulp-typescript-tests.ts b/types/gulp-typescript/gulp-typescript-tests.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 491d6790d2..0000000000
--- a/types/gulp-typescript/gulp-typescript-tests.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,65 +0,0 @@
-import gulp = require("gulp");
-import typescript = require("gulp-typescript");
-
-function merge(streams: NodeJS.ReadWriteStream[]): NodeJS.ReadWriteStream {
-    return null;
-}
-
-gulp.task('scripts', function() {
-    var tsResult = gulp.src('lib/*.ts')
-        .pipe(typescript({
-            declarationFiles: true,
-            noExternalResolve: true,
-            skipLibCheck: true
-        }));
-
-    return merge([
-        tsResult.dts.pipe(gulp.dest('release/definitions')),
-        tsResult.js.pipe(gulp.dest('release/js'))]
-    );
-});
-
-
-var tsProject = typescript.createProject({
-    declarationFiles: true,
-    noExternalResolve: true
-});
-
-gulp.task('scripts', function() {
-    var tsResult = tsProject.src()
-        .pipe(typescript(tsProject));
-
-    return tsResult.js.pipe(gulp.dest('release'));
-});
-
-var mainTscProject = typescript.createProject("tsconfig.json", {
-   target: "es6"
-});
-
-gulp.task('scripts', function() {
-    var tsResult = gulp.src('lib/*.ts')
-        .pipe(typescript(tsProject));
-
-    return merge([ // Merge the two output streams, so this task is finished when the IO of both operations are done.
-        tsResult.dts.pipe(gulp.dest('release/definitions')),
-        tsResult.js.pipe(gulp.dest('release/js'))]
-    );
-});
-gulp.task('watch', ['scripts'], function() {
-    gulp.watch('lib/*.ts', ['scripts']);
-});
-
-gulp.task('scripts', function () {
-    return gulp.src('lib/*.ts')
-        .pipe(typescript(tsProject, undefined, typescript.reporter.fullReporter()));
-});
-
-gulp.task('default', function () {
-    return gulp.src('src/**/*.ts')
-        .pipe(typescript())
-        .pipe(gulp.dest('built/local'));
-});
-
-var compilerOptions = tsProject.config.compilerOptions;
-var exclude         = tsProject.config.exclude;
-var files           = tsProject.config.files;
diff --git a/types/gulp-typescript/index.d.ts b/types/gulp-typescript/index.d.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 121abc325b..0000000000
--- a/types/gulp-typescript/index.d.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
-// Type definitions for gulp-typescript
-// Project: https://github.com/ivogabe/gulp-typescript
-// Definitions by: Asana <https://asana.com>, Thomas Corbière <https://github.com/tomc974>
-// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
-
-/// <reference types="node"/>
-
-
-declare function GulpTypescript(params?: GulpTypescript.Params, filters?: GulpTypescript.FilterSettings, reporter?: GulpTypescript.Reporter): GulpTypescript.CompilationStream;
-
-declare namespace GulpTypescript {
-    export function createProject(params?: Params): Project;
-    export function createProject(file: string, params?: Params): Project;
-    export function filter(filters: FilterSettings): CompilationStream;
-    interface Params {
-        declarationFiles?: boolean;
-        module?: string;
-        noEmitOnError?: boolean;
-        noExternalResolve?: boolean;
-        noImplicitAny?: boolean;
-        noLib?: boolean;
-        removeComments?: boolean;
-        sourceRoot?: string; // use gulp-sourcemaps instead
-        sortOutput?: boolean;
-        target?: string;
-        typescript?: any;
-        outFile?: string;
-        outDir?: string;
-        suppressImplicitAnyIndexErrors?: boolean;
-        jsx?: string;
-        declaration?: boolean;
-        emitDecoratorMetadata?: boolean;
-        experimentalDecorators?: boolean;
-        experimentalAsyncFunctions?: boolean;
-        moduleResolution?: string;
-        noEmitHelpers?: boolean;
-        preserveConstEnums?: boolean;
-        isolatedModules?: boolean;
-        skipLibCheck?: boolean;
-    }
-
-    interface TsConfig {
-        files?: string[];
-        exclude?: string[];
-        compilerOptions?: any;
-    }
-
-    interface Project {
-        config: TsConfig;
-        src(): NodeJS.ReadWriteStream;
-    }
-
-    interface FilterSettings {
-        referencedFrom?: string[];
-    }
-
-    interface Reporter {
-        error(error: any): void;
-    }
-
-    interface CompilationStream extends NodeJS.ReadWriteStream {
-        dts: NodeJS.ReadWriteStream;
-        js: NodeJS.ReadWriteStream;
-    }
-
-    namespace reporter {
-        function nullReporter(): Reporter;
-        function defaultReporter(): Reporter;
-        function fullReporter(showFullFilename?: boolean): Reporter;
-    }
-}
-
-export = GulpTypescript;
diff --git a/types/gulp-typescript/tsconfig.json b/types/gulp-typescript/tsconfig.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 120791965a..0000000000
--- a/types/gulp-typescript/tsconfig.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "compilerOptions": {
-        "module": "commonjs",
-        "lib": [
-            "es6"
-        ],
-        "noImplicitAny": true,
-        "noImplicitThis": true,
-        "strictNullChecks": false,
-        "baseUrl": "../",
-        "typeRoots": [
-            "../"
-        ],
-        "paths": {
-            "q": [ "q/v0" ]
-        },
-        "types": [],
-        "noEmit": true,
-        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
-    },
-    "files": [
-        "index.d.ts",
-        "gulp-typescript-tests.ts"
-    ]
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/types/gulp-useref/gulp-useref-tests.ts b/types/gulp-useref/gulp-useref-tests.ts
index 9f2bd409d5..ff7f01abcf 100644
--- a/types/gulp-useref/gulp-useref-tests.ts
+++ b/types/gulp-useref/gulp-useref-tests.ts
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ gulp.task('default', function () {
 
 
 // options.additionalStreams
-import * as ts from 'gulp-typescript';
+declare function ts(): any;
 
 // create stream of virtual files
 var tsStream = gulp.src('src/**/*.ts')