diff --git a/dev-python/testtools/Manifest b/dev-python/testtools/Manifest
index c51fa98dcb815..a428d17f9cc85 100644
--- a/dev-python/testtools/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/testtools/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST testtools-2.6.0.tar.gz 237864 BLAKE2B 1540c3b6d0f98adccf69e281778cf5ce685cf5b63102f0ee260bc6d1a8cedef0f57a81506e13b705a452f22dd75858da08a7f577b39279b2ae05643b4e96338e SHA512 309893693b2ae63ff75395bf543bd42caa9aee3b1208ce5921d893b3635012f6aa8ed5e797b4d130d83e1b530778e87b91e57b901e8351f86d44f3289d54d04b
 DIST testtools-2.7.1.tar.gz 200953 BLAKE2B b410735faf153749e3996c8889f56fbffab67a8f49b52f21afa60e72af201a12891d4db00b808324d52159b02e9212b81ab958c1dcf0cae5551471540f8fec0b SHA512 78af1c2af6f93671074dafedeaaf3ddbcc806e78c3153a3b90f88874c967e34a18cb85e5649b08fabb4ba4ae649eeb401e79c77c3b9233d9eee2a3c2267a4596
diff --git a/dev-python/testtools/testtools-2.6.0-r2.ebuild b/dev-python/testtools/testtools-2.6.0-r2.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index c697f34611ea5..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/testtools/testtools-2.6.0-r2.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..12} pypy3 )
-PYTHON_REQ_USE="threads(+)"
-
-inherit distutils-r1 pypi
-
-DESCRIPTION="Extensions to the Python standard library unit testing framework"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://github.com/testing-cabal/testtools/
-	https://pypi.org/project/testtools/
-"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~x64-macos"
-IUSE="test"
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	>=dev-python/pbr-0.11[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	test? (
-		>=dev-python/fixtures-2.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/testscenarios[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/testresources[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	)
-"
-PDEPEND="
-	>=dev-python/fixtures-2.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-"
-
-distutils_enable_sphinx doc
-
-src_prepare() {
-	# very fragile to formatting changes (broken on py3.10 & pypy3)
-	sed -i -e 's:test_syntax_error(:_&:' \
-		testtools/tests/test_testresult.py || die
-
-	distutils-r1_src_prepare
-}
-
-python_test() {
-	"${PYTHON}" -m testtools.run testtools.tests.test_suite ||
-		die "tests failed under ${EPYTHON}"
-}