diff --git a/internal/configs/config.go b/internal/configs/config.go
index f9cef3eb68..7dff76a095 100644
--- a/internal/configs/config.go
+++ b/internal/configs/config.go
@@ -234,23 +234,6 @@ func (c *Config) TargetExists(target addrs.Targetable) bool {
 	}
 }
 
-// EntersNewPackage returns true if this call is to an external module, either
-// directly via a remote source address or indirectly via a registry source
-// address.
-//
-// Other behaviors in Terraform may treat package crossings as a special
-// situation, because that indicates that the caller and callee can change
-// independently of one another and thus we should disallow using any features
-// where the caller assumes anything about the callee other than its input
-// variables, required provider configurations, and output values.
-//
-// It's not meaningful to ask if the Config representing the root module enters
-// a new package because the root module is always outside of all module
-// packages, and so this function will arbitrarily return false in that case.
-func (c *Config) EntersNewPackage() bool {
-	return moduleSourceAddrEntersNewPackage(c.SourceAddr)
-}
-
 // VerifyDependencySelections checks whether the given locked dependencies
 // are acceptable for all of the version constraints reported in the
 // configuration tree represented by the reciever.
diff --git a/internal/configs/module_call.go b/internal/configs/module_call.go
index ecc3be1821..ff7c7417f8 100644
--- a/internal/configs/module_call.go
+++ b/internal/configs/module_call.go
@@ -227,19 +227,6 @@ func decodeModuleBlock(block *hcl.Block, override bool) (*ModuleCall, hcl.Diagno
 	return mc, diags
 }
 
-// EntersNewPackage returns true if this call is to an external module, either
-// directly via a remote source address or indirectly via a registry source
-// address.
-//
-// Other behaviors in Terraform may treat package crossings as a special
-// situation, because that indicates that the caller and callee can change
-// independently of one another and thus we should disallow using any features
-// where the caller assumes anything about the callee other than its input
-// variables, required provider configurations, and output values.
-func (mc *ModuleCall) EntersNewPackage() bool {
-	return moduleSourceAddrEntersNewPackage(mc.SourceAddr)
-}
-
 // PassedProviderConfig represents a provider config explicitly passed down to
 // a child module, possibly giving it a new local address in the process.
 type PassedProviderConfig struct {
@@ -318,27 +305,3 @@ var moduleBlockSchema = &hcl.BodySchema{
 		{Type: "provider", LabelNames: []string{"type"}},
 	},
 }
-
-func moduleSourceAddrEntersNewPackage(addr addrs.ModuleSource) bool {
-	switch addr.(type) {
-	case nil:
-		// There are only two situations where we should get here:
-		// - We've been asked about the source address of the root module,
-		//   which is always nil.
-		// - We've been asked about a ModuleCall that is part of the partial
-		//   result of a failed decode.
-		// The root module exists outside of all module packages, so we'll
-		// just return false for that case. For the error case it doesn't
-		// really matter what we return as long as we don't panic, because
-		// we only make a best-effort to allow careful inspection of objects
-		// representing invalid configuration.
-		return false
-	case addrs.ModuleSourceLocal:
-		// Local source addresses are the only address type that remains within
-		// the same package.
-		return false
-	default:
-		// All other address types enter a new package.
-		return true
-	}
-}
diff --git a/internal/configs/module_call_test.go b/internal/configs/module_call_test.go
index 5f64f65506..058024f856 100644
--- a/internal/configs/module_call_test.go
+++ b/internal/configs/module_call_test.go
@@ -4,18 +4,17 @@
 package configs
 
 import (
-	"io/ioutil"
+	"os"
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/go-test/deep"
 	"github.com/hashicorp/hcl/v2"
 
 	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/internal/addrs"
-	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/internal/getmodules/moduleaddrs"
 )
 
 func TestLoadModuleCall(t *testing.T) {
-	src, err := ioutil.ReadFile("testdata/invalid-files/module-calls.tf")
+	src, err := os.ReadFile("testdata/invalid-files/module-calls.tf")
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -149,49 +148,3 @@ func TestLoadModuleCall(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Error(problem)
 	}
 }
-
-func TestModuleSourceAddrEntersNewPackage(t *testing.T) {
-	tests := []struct {
-		Addr string
-		Want bool
-	}{
-		{
-			"./",
-			false,
-		},
-		{
-			"../bork",
-			false,
-		},
-		{
-			"/absolute/path",
-			true,
-		},
-		{
-			"github.com/example/foo",
-			true,
-		},
-		{
-			"hashicorp/subnets/cidr", // registry module
-			true,
-		},
-		{
-			"registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/subnets/cidr", // registry module
-			true,
-		},
-	}
-
-	for _, test := range tests {
-		t.Run(test.Addr, func(t *testing.T) {
-			addr, err := moduleaddrs.ParseModuleSource(test.Addr)
-			if err != nil {
-				t.Fatalf("parsing failed for %q: %s", test.Addr, err)
-			}
-
-			got := moduleSourceAddrEntersNewPackage(addr)
-			if got != test.Want {
-				t.Errorf("wrong result for %q\ngot:  %#v\nwant:  %#v", addr, got, test.Want)
-			}
-		})
-	}
-}