diff --git a/dev-java/commons-betwixt/files/commons-betwixt-0.6-noget.patch b/dev-java/commons-betwixt/files/commons-betwixt-0.6-noget.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 18ed111f16143..0000000000000
--- a/dev-java/commons-betwixt/files/commons-betwixt-0.6-noget.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
---- build.xml.orig	2005-03-29 00:13:46.324523008 +0200
-+++ build.xml	2005-03-29 00:14:15.329113640 +0200
-@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
-       </equals>
-     </condition>
-   </target>
--  <target name="compile" description="o Compile the code" depends="get-deps">
-+  <target name="compile" description="o Compile the code">
-     <mkdir dir="${classesdir}">
-     </mkdir>
-     <javac destdir="${classesdir}" deprecation="true" debug="true" optimize="false" excludes="**/package.html">
-@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
-       </fileset>
-     </copy>
-   </target>
--  <target name="jar" description="o Create the jar" depends="compile,test">
-+  <target name="jar" description="o Create the jar" depends="compile">
-     <jar jarfile="target/${final.name}.jar" excludes="**/package.html" basedir="${classesdir}">
-     </jar>
-   </target>
-@@ -187,4 +187,4 @@
-     <unjar dest="${maven.home}" src="${user.home}/maven-install-latest.jar">
-     </unjar>
-   </target>
--</project>
-\ No newline at end of file
-+</project>
diff --git a/dev-java/commons-betwixt/files/commons-betwixt-0.7-notests.patch b/dev-java/commons-betwixt/files/commons-betwixt-0.7-notests.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index b0581b23f40ac..0000000000000
--- a/dev-java/commons-betwixt/files/commons-betwixt-0.7-notests.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-diff -ru commons-betwixt-0.7-src/build.xml commons-betwixt-0.7-src-patched/build.xml
---- commons-betwixt-0.7-src/build.xml	2005-07-25 17:24:03.000000000 -0400
-+++ commons-betwixt-0.7-src-patched/build.xml	2005-12-14 23:53:30.000000000 -0500
-@@ -86,11 +86,11 @@
-       </fileset>
-     </copy>
-   </target>
--  <target name="test" description="o Run the test cases" if="test.failure" depends="internal-test">
-+  <target name="test" description="o Run the test cases" if="test.failure" depends="internal-test" unless="notest">
-     <fail message="There were test failures.">
-     </fail>
-   </target>
--  <target name="internal-test" if="Junit.present" depends="junit-present,compile-tests">
-+  <target name="internal-test" if="Junit.present" depends="junit-present,compile-tests" unless="notest">
-     <mkdir dir="${testreportdir}">
-     </mkdir>
-     <junit dir="./" failureproperty="test.failure" printSummary="yes" fork="true" haltonerror="true">
-@@ -185,4 +185,4 @@
-     <unjar dest="${maven.home}" src="${user.home}/maven-install-latest.jar">
-     </unjar>
-   </target>
--</project>
-\ No newline at end of file
-+</project>
-Only in commons-betwixt-0.7-src-patched: target