diff --git a/dev-libs/xapian/Manifest b/dev-libs/xapian/Manifest
index 20940cb4952e5..35185b9075e87 100644
--- a/dev-libs/xapian/Manifest
+++ b/dev-libs/xapian/Manifest
@@ -1,5 +1,2 @@
-DIST xapian-core-1.4.25.tar.xz 3205904 BLAKE2B 7b03a8fabc3c688f58b3451541dedb664de0a02d7c46a4e8eac080c004232575c00428110eaab0ea463df5c3f43f2b4cebfbe6754f897e55f113683c1db43b2b SHA512 e8069f2cb75554978716a99580fb57fc73bbdd607c82394f53d07205d8c78fb59265004be0c676a6806bb2840a3933499dfc867e36a28855278569a0676d469d
-DIST xapian-core-1.4.26.tar.xz 3246304 BLAKE2B f68b25741de821ef6de2ae5127f09f69a68c435dd224b796d92fc18769db3e3307a0a3aadc98cf26adc966eb063fdbd3ee612ec725020cfc79bdfa041675794b SHA512 ecd94d410dc94b6510c6729f276606987f9dd955cfb0520e62d46fa71645f5b140d474cda0d77078e64ee7cf9c0cd00f3aefe0e1b087739582e64bbcb9fabd4b
-DIST xapian-core-1.4.27.tar.xz 3246624 BLAKE2B 4a61490ebb53738660ef7ff9ecd60e2b53474309d63fe9b9702323a6eba6c9d96d79048f67e8356a2a7c0436ab6ff38792bf9d9776b60f820eaddc77ca5b0f32 SHA512 5a9b75dfc61782012c4c2febd95532e6705f7fa45b0765b64dbc9ee3751c88fb3420f1d7d8fdadee21a59ff4143c5197870a4aa50993490a033fce6925e1e9f1
 DIST xapian-core-1.4.29.tar.xz 3250704 BLAKE2B 5b033038b6d4083716efd8c02ad9a8ce18d8cabd37e719a235db4dd0487024ac49a3d65c0d7c9af0031421b837231ff2b0a88bd7928f9a3b366e94682fb9ed76 SHA512 fe368f0b9b840d73f1d550814a8954cf3e0ee1f89206db8b2b00b82ed8abe93b890193f9bf10b801125c87438497640fd10e742b2f616dd69cdcb694757ed38d
 DIST xapian-core-1.4.30.tar.xz 3252336 BLAKE2B 75f4893cfccdd47d90d67bfda3525bcda0cbfbd55e0bf579ac8472a3ddf9855097073300d47f91ba2d44c768a6c0e6cc53e3392b39a867a113496f520d629330 SHA512 42d3f0b5998da363cd03ca38a974862a8d37b24a2177cd6eeaf6d2bf8f688a568f264243c3c694bd345283bbce476cf334c6444e568c215b276ad42e55862cca
diff --git a/dev-libs/xapian/xapian-1.4.25.ebuild b/dev-libs/xapian/xapian-1.4.25.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index ab40d14332df1..0000000000000
--- a/dev-libs/xapian/xapian-1.4.25.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-inherit toolchain-funcs
-
-MY_P="${PN}-core-${PV}"
-DESCRIPTION="Xapian Probabilistic Information Retrieval library"
-HOMEPAGE="https://xapian.org/"
-SRC_URI="https://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/${PV}/${MY_P}.tar.xz"
-S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2"
-SLOT="0/30" # ABI version of libxapian.so
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc x86 ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
-IUSE="cpu_flags_x86_sse cpu_flags_x86_sse2 debug static-libs"
-
-DEPEND="
-	virtual/zlib:=
-	!elibc_Darwin? ( !elibc_SunOS? ( sys-apps/util-linux ) )
-	elibc_SunOS? ( sys-libs/libuuid )
-"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-
-DOCS=( AUTHORS HACKING PLATFORMS README NEWS )
-
-src_configure() {
-	tc-export_build_env BUILD_CC
-	local -x CC_FOR_BUILD="${BUILD_CC}"
-
-	# skip certain autoconf checks
-	local -x VALGRIND=
-	local -x EATMYDATA=
-
-	local -a myconf=(
-		--docdir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/doc/${PF}/html
-		--disable-werror
-		--enable-backend-chert
-		--enable-backend-glass
-		--enable-backend-inmemory
-		--enable-backend-remote
-		--program-suffix=
-		$(use_enable debug assertions)
-		$(use_enable debug log)
-		$(use_enable static-libs static)
-	)
-
-	if use cpu_flags_x86_sse2; then
-		myconf+=( --enable-sse=sse2 )
-	elif use cpu_flags_x86_sse; then
-		myconf+=( --enable-sse=sse )
-	else
-		myconf+=( --disable-sse )
-	fi
-
-	econf "${myconf[@]}"
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	emake -Onone check
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	default
-	find "${ED}" -name "*.la" -type f -delete || die
-}
diff --git a/dev-libs/xapian/xapian-1.4.26.ebuild b/dev-libs/xapian/xapian-1.4.26.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index ab40d14332df1..0000000000000
--- a/dev-libs/xapian/xapian-1.4.26.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-inherit toolchain-funcs
-
-MY_P="${PN}-core-${PV}"
-DESCRIPTION="Xapian Probabilistic Information Retrieval library"
-HOMEPAGE="https://xapian.org/"
-SRC_URI="https://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/${PV}/${MY_P}.tar.xz"
-S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2"
-SLOT="0/30" # ABI version of libxapian.so
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc x86 ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
-IUSE="cpu_flags_x86_sse cpu_flags_x86_sse2 debug static-libs"
-
-DEPEND="
-	virtual/zlib:=
-	!elibc_Darwin? ( !elibc_SunOS? ( sys-apps/util-linux ) )
-	elibc_SunOS? ( sys-libs/libuuid )
-"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-
-DOCS=( AUTHORS HACKING PLATFORMS README NEWS )
-
-src_configure() {
-	tc-export_build_env BUILD_CC
-	local -x CC_FOR_BUILD="${BUILD_CC}"
-
-	# skip certain autoconf checks
-	local -x VALGRIND=
-	local -x EATMYDATA=
-
-	local -a myconf=(
-		--docdir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/doc/${PF}/html
-		--disable-werror
-		--enable-backend-chert
-		--enable-backend-glass
-		--enable-backend-inmemory
-		--enable-backend-remote
-		--program-suffix=
-		$(use_enable debug assertions)
-		$(use_enable debug log)
-		$(use_enable static-libs static)
-	)
-
-	if use cpu_flags_x86_sse2; then
-		myconf+=( --enable-sse=sse2 )
-	elif use cpu_flags_x86_sse; then
-		myconf+=( --enable-sse=sse )
-	else
-		myconf+=( --disable-sse )
-	fi
-
-	econf "${myconf[@]}"
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	emake -Onone check
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	default
-	find "${ED}" -name "*.la" -type f -delete || die
-}
diff --git a/dev-libs/xapian/xapian-1.4.27.ebuild b/dev-libs/xapian/xapian-1.4.27.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index c08ff6037f3f8..0000000000000
--- a/dev-libs/xapian/xapian-1.4.27.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-inherit toolchain-funcs
-
-MY_P="${PN}-core-${PV}"
-DESCRIPTION="Xapian Probabilistic Information Retrieval library"
-HOMEPAGE="https://xapian.org/"
-SRC_URI="https://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/${PV}/${MY_P}.tar.xz"
-S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2"
-SLOT="0/30" # ABI version of libxapian.so
-KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
-IUSE="cpu_flags_x86_sse cpu_flags_x86_sse2 debug static-libs"
-
-DEPEND="
-	virtual/zlib:=
-	!elibc_Darwin? ( !elibc_SunOS? ( sys-apps/util-linux ) )
-	elibc_SunOS? ( sys-libs/libuuid )
-"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-
-DOCS=( AUTHORS HACKING PLATFORMS README NEWS )
-
-src_configure() {
-	tc-export_build_env BUILD_CC
-	local -x CC_FOR_BUILD="${BUILD_CC}"
-
-	# skip certain autoconf checks
-	local -x VALGRIND=
-	local -x EATMYDATA=
-
-	local -a myconf=(
-		--docdir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/doc/${PF}/html
-		--disable-werror
-		--enable-backend-chert
-		--enable-backend-glass
-		--enable-backend-inmemory
-		--enable-backend-remote
-		--program-suffix=
-		$(use_enable debug assertions)
-		$(use_enable debug log)
-		$(use_enable static-libs static)
-	)
-
-	if use cpu_flags_x86_sse2; then
-		myconf+=( --enable-sse=sse2 )
-	elif use cpu_flags_x86_sse; then
-		myconf+=( --enable-sse=sse )
-	else
-		myconf+=( --disable-sse )
-	fi
-
-	econf "${myconf[@]}"
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	emake -Onone check
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	default
-	find "${ED}" -name "*.la" -type f -delete || die
-}