diff --git a/dev-python/zope-component/Manifest b/dev-python/zope-component/Manifest
index 4aa808dcdb5d9..fa18ea9c73d9d 100644
--- a/dev-python/zope-component/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/zope-component/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST zope.component-4.4.1.tar.gz 84745 BLAKE2B 3b8a58bdaf1de1bc57e9642bf76100bd8aa0bbccfc8d6682e7f78363f08f13ac98c7ff37d4892c3558e26537294dd184b75810afaf95c6f8d6a529c9938ea8dc SHA512 dc9f6a725cc49ac94a164d11786ef977e94e1c9a7c88de4aaeb0f62621cfe00284007ae44937ec92ae6cffc5b16ab4af1548db2237b0ba4b818e2c8f6355ecbd
 DIST zope.component-5.0.1.tar.gz 91130 BLAKE2B 4dbd78b003ba3688c0468573f4552c87333fd5fb7e0cd89d4844633f28c19443b3ea884438ff7f7ba8b056790f008c246c1e7ad52403d7b72b146d0d53edd8ad SHA512 fad011816fe5bb869bb2e43e11a66841a6be2abf9002e41207ef1dfe69b1afb5ca486d275daeddf71d2a0e79e1a9c839c4735190dddcd118b675a976bde07a64
diff --git a/dev-python/zope-component/zope-component-4.4.1-r2.ebuild b/dev-python/zope-component/zope-component-4.4.1-r2.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 2edeb4128626b..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/zope-component/zope-component-4.4.1-r2.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} )
-
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-MY_PN=zope.component
-MY_P=${MY_PN}-${PV}
-DESCRIPTION="Zope Component Architecture"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://pypi.org/project/zope.component/
-	https://github.com/zopefoundation/zope.component/
-"
-SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${MY_PN:0:1}/${MY_PN}/${MY_P}.tar.gz"
-S=${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}
-
-LICENSE="ZPL"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm arm64 ~ppc64 ~riscv x86"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	dev-python/zope-event[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/zope-interface-4.1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	!dev-python/namespace-zope
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	test? (
-		dev-python/zope-configuration[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/zope-i18nmessageid[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/zope-testing[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	)
-"
-
-distutils_enable_tests unittest
-
-src_prepare() {
-	# strip rdep specific to namespaces
-	sed -i -e "/'setuptools'/d" setup.py || die
-	distutils-r1_src_prepare
-}
-
-python_compile() {
-	distutils-r1_python_compile
-	find "${BUILD_DIR}" -name '*.pth' -delete || die
-}
-
-python_test() {
-	cd "${BUILD_DIR}/install$(python_get_sitedir)" || die
-	distutils_write_namespace zope
-	eunittest
-}