diff --git a/pkg/api/meta/metatypes/BUILD b/pkg/api/meta/metatypes/BUILD
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b80bb3379f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/api/meta/metatypes/BUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+package(default_visibility = ["//visibility:public"])
+
+licenses(["notice"])
+
+load(
+    "@io_bazel_rules_go//go:def.bzl",
+    "go_binary",
+    "go_library",
+    "go_test",
+    "cgo_library",
+)
+
+go_library(
+    name = "go_default_library",
+    srcs = ["doc.go"],
+    tags = ["automanaged"],
+)
diff --git a/pkg/api/meta/metatypes/doc.go b/pkg/api/meta/metatypes/doc.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a2b9d5e1d9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/api/meta/metatypes/doc.go
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2016 The Kubernetes Authors.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+// Package metatypes has been deprecated and removed.
+package meta // import "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api/meta/metatypes"