diff --git a/dev-python/breathe/Manifest b/dev-python/breathe/Manifest
index 8e844038562c6..925bcf01af884 100644
--- a/dev-python/breathe/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/breathe/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST breathe-4.35.0.gh.tar.gz 212932 BLAKE2B 9423cc99cd1dc45fa1c93f1e2adfe59be4f3398842d3c6f98ee7a17285e108de4eb88e149c4ee179fa1008e30b69c8fa4f3934506aa53892c2eb612fa7652ba3 SHA512 76e36fceb89c21e2c62471a37b856f8e7077f946ca8ebffdd068297d7d447ba4f42f8f9d91e231f7a181d7dba2cb8650479f35f8bef342184e5ccbd3dd951f91
 DIST breathe-4.36.0.gh.tar.gz 219346 BLAKE2B 26e18a7cbe34762579bff965e48772b54438a2ed1235dad52fc63533afe47f78cb921683c201a281e732f4e67d5a5edbe850a369f57d7eca83f0a54f43cb68a5 SHA512 fd640ed75680134a5a0e8860764bb430bb971f49ad2f88392de7ba97d633e377079eaf1c7e35a72db135e4c4d3b066c6c9744ccc151ad18d865bb37c9de833d7
diff --git a/dev-python/breathe/breathe-4.35.0-r1.ebuild b/dev-python/breathe/breathe-4.35.0-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 84e5e84724cad..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/breathe/breathe-4.35.0-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..13} )
-
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="Sphinx Doxygen renderer"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://breathe.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
-	https://github.com/breathe-doc/breathe/
-	https://pypi.org/project/breathe/
-"
-SRC_URI="
-	https://github.com/breathe-doc/breathe/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz
-		-> ${P}.gh.tar.gz
-"
-
-LICENSE="BSD"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	app-text/doxygen
-	dev-python/docutils[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/sphinx-4.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-texlive/texlive-bibtexextra
-	dev-texlive/texlive-fontsextra
-	dev-texlive/texlive-fontutils
-	dev-texlive/texlive-latex
-	dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra
-"
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest
-
-PATCHES=(
-	# https://github.com/breathe-doc/breathe/pull/956
-	"${FILESDIR}/${P}-sphinx-7.2.patch"
-)
diff --git a/dev-python/breathe/files/breathe-4.35.0-sphinx-7.2.patch b/dev-python/breathe/files/breathe-4.35.0-sphinx-7.2.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index b81eddc6a6e3e..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/breathe/files/breathe-4.35.0-sphinx-7.2.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-From 46abd77157a2a57e81586e4f8765ae8f1a09d167 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: =?UTF-8?q?Mark=C3=A9ta?= <meggy.calabkova@gmail.com>
-Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2023 15:53:59 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] support Sphinx 7.2
-
----
- breathe/project.py     | 2 +-
- tests/test_renderer.py | 6 +++++-
- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/breathe/project.py b/breathe/project.py
-index 865236e8..9716cb59 100644
---- a/breathe/project.py
-+++ b/breathe/project.py
-@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ def __init__(self, app: Sphinx):
-         # Assume general build directory is the doctree directory without the last component.
-         # We strip off any trailing slashes so that dirname correctly drops the last part.
-         # This can be overridden with the breathe_build_directory config variable
--        self._default_build_dir = os.path.dirname(app.doctreedir.rstrip(os.sep))
-+        self._default_build_dir = app.doctreedir.parent
-         self.project_count = 0
-         self.project_info_store: Dict[str, ProjectInfo] = {}
-         self.project_info_for_auto_store: Dict[str, AutoProjectInfo] = {}
-diff --git a/tests/test_renderer.py b/tests/test_renderer.py
-index a858c65d..73a29e4e 100644
---- a/tests/test_renderer.py
-+++ b/tests/test_renderer.py
-@@ -35,7 +35,11 @@ def app(test_params, app_params, make_app, shared_result):
-     """
-     args, kwargs = app_params
-     assert "srcdir" in kwargs
--    kwargs["srcdir"].makedirs(exist_ok=True)
-+    try:
-+        kwargs["srcdir"].mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
-+    except AttributeError:
-+        # old version of Sphinx
-+        kwargs["srcdir"].makedirs(exist_ok=True)
-     (kwargs["srcdir"] / "conf.py").write_text("")
-     app_ = make_app(*args, **kwargs)
-     yield app_