diff --git a/dev-python/svgwrite/Manifest b/dev-python/svgwrite/Manifest
index 98556f6673dd3..3197da5251f53 100644
--- a/dev-python/svgwrite/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/svgwrite/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST svgwrite-1.3.1.tar.gz 249712 BLAKE2B 3f03f841d4e1bdf3e8d3d47c86301bcc22f205d71d265902f0ccb5a78710815521f34589ce261a463d7e80c6eeaac60d2090895ae1157ab6f20c0f5c21f5e2e2 SHA512 a4d2db34194923055c6e92c0af5540eef767cf8481d7c991b357f5bc77fd1874bba65220e7a7ff3a4da4bd30a49663b6ac514adb2b41cb4b087a7bb64053ac0a
 DIST svgwrite-1.4.tar.gz 251138 BLAKE2B b105fa60ed75628c59b3ad4d0ea32dddf83f618e213ce6974b5db0e93d519e563eb5a9ff5e37012f71c7ce79579ca927acfb8709d2f8e8ad316b04bae8abafcb SHA512 b722fc51c6b3755064942bb6c7ea199ba5902ee37e426962ed24e0b67659e72e8da36cd2516193e2348a939ab2ccd2c5114349ac72d7b9ea52a7b7d68ad1ce74
diff --git a/dev-python/svgwrite/files/svgwrite-1.3.1-fix-tests-py38.patch b/dev-python/svgwrite/files/svgwrite-1.3.1-fix-tests-py38.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 872a113a2a3d3..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/svgwrite/files/svgwrite-1.3.1-fix-tests-py38.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-From 36ec11ccf3275c6ab9156625d322def9c324e090 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: mozman <me@mozman.at>
-Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 05:24:45 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] ignore svg tag at pretty print testing
-
-Order of svg attribute of the svg tag has changed in Python 3.8,
-ignoring this tag is the easiest way to solve this problem.
----
- tests/test_pretty_xml.py | 3 ++-
- tox.ini                  | 2 +-
- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/tests/test_pretty_xml.py b/tests/test_pretty_xml.py
-index c004626..14a826e 100644
---- a/tests/test_pretty_xml.py
-+++ b/tests/test_pretty_xml.py
-@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ class TestPrettyXML(unittest.TestCase):
-     def test_pretty_print(self):
-         result = pretty_xml(XML_UGLY).split('\n')
-         expect = XML_PRETTY.split('\n')
--        for e, r in zip(expect, result):
-+        # skip svg tag, order of attributes changes often by new Python releases
-+        for e, r in zip(expect[1:], result[1:]):
-             self.assertEqual(e, r)
- 
-     def test_empty_string(self):
-diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
-index 55de9ce..fe450be 100644
---- a/tox.ini
-+++ b/tox.ini
-@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
- # and then run "tox" from this directory.
- 
- [tox]
--envlist = py36, py37, pypy
-+envlist = py36, py37, py38, pypy
- 
- [testenv]
- commands = pytest tests
diff --git a/dev-python/svgwrite/svgwrite-1.3.1.ebuild b/dev-python/svgwrite/svgwrite-1.3.1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 77b8babdc570b..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/svgwrite/svgwrite-1.3.1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{6,7,8} )
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="Python Package to write SVG files"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/mozman/svgwrite"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/mozman/${PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE="test"
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-RDEPEND=">=dev-python/pyparsing-2.0.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	test? ( dev-python/pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )"
-
-PATCHES=(
-	"${FILESDIR}"/${P}-fix-tests-py38.patch
-)
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest