diff --git a/games-board/gnome-mahjongg/gnome-mahjongg-3.38.3.ebuild b/games-board/gnome-mahjongg/gnome-mahjongg-3.38.3.ebuild
index 89804853e4943..8e51464166c55 100644
--- a/games-board/gnome-mahjongg/gnome-mahjongg-3.38.3.ebuild
+++ b/games-board/gnome-mahjongg/gnome-mahjongg-3.38.3.ebuild
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
-VALA_MIN_API_VERSION="0.24"
 
 inherit gnome.org gnome2-utils meson vala xdg