--- a/cubicweb/repoapi.py	Fri Mar 10 14:07:15 2017 +0100
+++ b/cubicweb/repoapi.py	Fri Mar 10 16:14:05 2017 +0100
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 
 from logilab.common.deprecation import class_deprecated
 
-from cubicweb.utils import parse_repo_uri
 from cubicweb import AuthenticationError
 from cubicweb.server.session import Connection
 

--- a/cubicweb/test/unittest_utils.py	Fri Mar 10 14:07:15 2017 +0100
+++ b/cubicweb/test/unittest_utils.py	Fri Mar 10 16:14:05 2017 +0100
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 from cubicweb import Binary, Unauthorized
 from cubicweb.devtools.testlib import CubicWebTC
 from cubicweb.utils import (make_uid, UStringIO, RepeatList, HTMLHead,
-                            QueryCache, parse_repo_uri)
+                            QueryCache)
 from cubicweb.entity import Entity
 
 try:
@@ -59,18 +59,6 @@
             d.add(uid)
 
 
-class TestParseRepoUri(TestCase):
-
-    def test_parse_repo_uri(self):
-        self.assertEqual(('inmemory', None, 'myapp'),
-                         parse_repo_uri('myapp'))
-        self.assertEqual(('inmemory', None, 'myapp'),
-                         parse_repo_uri('inmemory://myapp'))
-        with self.assertRaises(NotImplementedError):
-            parse_repo_uri('foo://bar')
-
-
-
 class TestQueryCache(TestCase):
     def test_querycache(self):
         c = QueryCache(ceiling=20)

--- a/cubicweb/utils.py	Fri Mar 10 14:07:15 2017 +0100
+++ b/cubicweb/utils.py	Fri Mar 10 16:14:05 2017 +0100
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@
 from logging import getLogger
 
 from six import text_type
-from six.moves.urllib.parse import urlparse
 
 from logilab.mtconverter import xml_escape
 from logilab.common.deprecation import deprecated
@@ -585,21 +584,6 @@
     return 'javascript: ' + PERCENT_IN_URLQUOTE_RE.sub(r'%25', javascript_code)
 
 
-def parse_repo_uri(uri):
-    """ transform a command line uri into a (protocol, hostport, appid), e.g:
-    <myapp>                      -> 'inmemory', None, '<myapp>'
-    inmemory://<myapp>           -> 'inmemory', None, '<myapp>'
-    """
-    parseduri = urlparse(uri)
-    scheme = parseduri.scheme
-    if scheme == '':
-        return ('inmemory', None, parseduri.path)
-    if scheme == 'inmemory':
-        return (scheme, None, parseduri.netloc)
-    raise NotImplementedError('URI protocol not implemented for `%s`' % uri)
-
-
-
 logger = getLogger('cubicweb.utils')
 
 class QueryCache(object):