diff --git a/dev-python/docstring-to-markdown/Manifest b/dev-python/docstring-to-markdown/Manifest
index 801c01cb6ccf4..ddf4e0625f6d7 100644
--- a/dev-python/docstring-to-markdown/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/docstring-to-markdown/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST docstring-to-markdown-0.16.gh.tar.gz 31553 BLAKE2B 66dfaf08ca08d6209bae851ffc15d26bac76ec71c417a4b6094fcf23b863f17cb7abda9c191089aeffe31cee6041803f27de4448feb6918be179561cb3ecfd6c SHA512 4052194a12525071558d859ef23fd33c1c131676f7931ff72891b951d2a7726c1b786639c00be2ff3578bff155cf77d22ddeb03d87dcd782baa337f456a8647f
 DIST docstring-to-markdown-0.17.gh.tar.gz 32692 BLAKE2B 5d209fa68383df7f0c0ab1910caf6c7481e53b5a2848015a03ab95f5aeb4422bd1923365b27dbdb91a641a2884ff27923356541e4c725520fd1481ec46c800c9 SHA512 1b861eb1e92907ce69e2e0b49ecc13e6a5cb4c1c73980b3fe1f6e241b6e11688a96abaf97223932c4a90c451ced8285612b39076303ede891cc33ec4ce38aff0
diff --git a/dev-python/docstring-to-markdown/docstring-to-markdown-0.16.ebuild b/dev-python/docstring-to-markdown/docstring-to-markdown-0.16.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index a0e4622c889ab..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/docstring-to-markdown/docstring-to-markdown-0.16.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +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_{10..13} pypy3 pypy3_11 )
-
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="On the fly conversion of Python docstrings to markdown"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://github.com/python-lsp/docstring-to-markdown/
-	https://pypi.org/project/docstring-to-markdown/
-"
-SRC_URI="
-	https://github.com/python-lsp/docstring-to-markdown/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz
-		-> ${P}.gh.tar.gz
-"
-
-LICENSE="LGPL-2.1"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 arm64 ~ppc64 x86"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	>=dev-python/importlib-metadata-3.6[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/typing-extensions-4.6[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-"
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest
-
-python_test() {
-	local -x PYTEST_DISABLE_PLUGIN_AUTOLOAD=1
-	epytest -o addopts=
-}