diff --git a/dev-python/zipp/Manifest b/dev-python/zipp/Manifest
index 2ca96b007925e..dc79a709fc2cb 100644
--- a/dev-python/zipp/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/zipp/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST zipp-3.23.1.tar.gz 25965 BLAKE2B 85295931762190d0d76247ae4219a730c4415cf13a79a30f3cb7b7025d60b9d59aca251c488baae0b9dffa3e6b56b26ed9439cd3359660085bc96390f2334379 SHA512 7461e5cc8e090e99b32595f05259c61b9a2865c9e5056e81c537020fe550f4d0bcc844df63cac3e096eed2c9754284830cdb104e4e625f9bf3f302b17b7e0fd0
 DIST zipp-4.1.0.tar.gz 26214 BLAKE2B 8ef46c33c39adb1894599278307bfea4c1b9fbede22bff698585185fe3bc814a5460502896f8cdb38beb99d37a83e881cdded0db8686d0a25e4fccdb56bb4bbe SHA512 1648ee2581e958ff11472357784b34111f86fd2c2281bb35ca8122f238c721c5a1e54332ffe1fb03208dfee2706adb39ede5389b2d3612c9134f3662bef54ffa
diff --git a/dev-python/zipp/zipp-3.23.1.ebuild b/dev-python/zipp/zipp-3.23.1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 89794317c9e98..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/zipp/zipp-3.23.1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-# please keep this ebuild at EAPI 8 -- sys-apps/portage dep
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=flit
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( pypy3_11 python3_{11..14} )
-
-inherit distutils-r1 pypi
-
-DESCRIPTION="Backport of pathlib-compatible object wrapper for zip files"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://github.com/jaraco/zipp/
-	https://pypi.org/project/zipp/
-"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc x86 ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
-
-# big_o is only used in test_complexity, that we ignore
-BDEPEND="
-	test? (
-		dev-python/jaraco-functools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/jaraco-itertools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/jaraco-test[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/more-itertools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	)
-"
-
-EPYTEST_PLUGINS=()
-distutils_enable_tests pytest
-
-EPYTEST_IGNORE=(
-	# performance tests are flaky by design
-	tests/test_complexity.py
-)
-
-src_configure() {
-	grep -q 'build-backend = "setuptools' pyproject.toml ||
-		die "Upstream changed build-backend, recheck"
-	# write a custom pyproject.toml to ease setuptools bootstrap
-	cat > pyproject.toml <<-EOF || die
-		[build-system]
-		requires = ["flit_core >=3.2,<4"]
-		build-backend = "flit_core.buildapi"
-
-		[project]
-		name = "zipp"
-		version = "${PV}"
-		description = "Backport of pathlib-compatible object wrapper for zip files"
-	EOF
-}