diff --git a/dev-python/construct/Manifest b/dev-python/construct/Manifest
index 23ce240e4f64b..3716c099733d7 100644
--- a/dev-python/construct/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/construct/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST construct-2.8.17.tar.gz 705812 BLAKE2B 3178f7f59fb893bc521c88b7ba51d6bd83cca37c1a243e602dcc2ac41a2cb7335e2cf69e7dff3b130e974ff9dbd01a12004423c3a88fc8e88c784c665437e901 SHA512 5bca40d7f33f336ab2a66546027c8bf24bf1b0125bcf425063b3bab14b1e3a96577d602db1eb73cb0ee99f90d92af6e24fcbd228912c0a70de6b2bd7d33e75be
 DIST construct-2.8.21.tar.gz 706022 BLAKE2B a7fb81185b380b444bede5dffce11158d93f0076cc3fbd836cdef3cf8425e2bcce0cf7b8e2d2654effc8beac3d3d0f722dd2786103f9b85f05b98216fc7684cb SHA512 f8e2c8d0f437cce760b1439fc68e2b10dccf852e1bf3c42e0569a3e32fe218d2a4d4cc662229455a910fa8a7cf0fc0500cb0d38ad0485f1b9fd954334f343562
diff --git a/dev-python/construct/construct-2.8.17.ebuild b/dev-python/construct/construct-2.8.17.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 4235c921ade4c..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/construct/construct-2.8.17.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=6
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_4,3_5} )
-
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="A powerful declarative parser for binary data"
-HOMEPAGE="http://construct.readthedocs.io/ https://pypi.org/project/construct/"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/construct/construct/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE="test"
-
-DEPEND="test? (
-		dev-python/numpy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/pytest-cov[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/tox[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	)"
-
-python_test() {
-	py.test -vv || die "Tests failed under ${EPYTHON}"
-}