diff --git a/dev-python/pyqt5-sip/Manifest b/dev-python/pyqt5-sip/Manifest
index b6107bbbfc0ea..b012f303de72d 100644
--- a/dev-python/pyqt5-sip/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/pyqt5-sip/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST PyQt5_sip-12.15.0.tar.gz 104024 BLAKE2B 40fdf25bfb8ca321f50926d7041e33edee9fbebafaded50d283ea95b04ea050e368d2b8470110d758f68f3ac08ada68b65b2f6ebcb9d7dd43707636e26701854 SHA512 1a009b53e80fc8231478f741839d8a88ab26f531c4ab0d41ccc00c8b0650c13c95c3c89cc949858a99bd1d817d736507df519384dff029530edc554f4b35b4cc
 DIST pyqt5_sip-12.16.1.tar.gz 103975 BLAKE2B 43a71f75809c64ce104044c8aa9610ba03de5a87bb69a3cf173153a7ae10ddef623113e54922fcb215920c2635bcd7294e761ea5043d735f700cde431d0f7a16 SHA512 c85305503927dee0886f88d54aa74c4a0123159d1f534b1ec6d5ea5dff149954b2f11cf14c4a14d97cb04b0ce40fc75fd28b0109b5a2232e89cb057b3caa57bc
diff --git a/dev-python/pyqt5-sip/pyqt5-sip-12.15.0.ebuild b/dev-python/pyqt5-sip/pyqt5-sip-12.15.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index acdb27ee09321..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/pyqt5-sip/pyqt5-sip-12.15.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_EXT=1
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
-PYPI_NO_NORMALIZE=1
-# actually, it's PyQt5-sip but upstream uses incorrect sdist name
-PYPI_PN=PyQt5_sip
-# keep compat in sync with PyQt5 or else it confuses some revdeps
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..13} )
-
-inherit distutils-r1 pypi
-
-DESCRIPTION="sip extension module for PyQt5"
-# note that PyQt5-sip is currently not on github, but this is the
-# homepage listed upstream as of the writing of this
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/Python-SIP/sip/"
-
-LICENSE="BSD-2"
-SLOT="0/$(ver_cut 1)"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 arm arm64 ~loong ~ppc ppc64 ~riscv x86"