diff --git a/dev-cpp/commoncpp2/Manifest b/dev-cpp/commoncpp2/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index 69b0098c2ce8a..0000000000000
--- a/dev-cpp/commoncpp2/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-DIST commoncpp2-1.8.1-patches-r1.txz 7144 BLAKE2B 0d464810afc9aab2b198495789ecfe4c84fab9edf33f85523dc711602a2f1c08c24a5c2cd7fd92ef799e049624159eb373a2accff193ddec1413fc9aa4450a4e SHA512 d8df95b0963a47c7049fe80b21dadd004f0d4a4498139d629dcc65034211e58e2dffa5e2e6ab61eba10b265f2737eb6a78c0c92b6ec13ae50ab5826bf6e4d68b
-DIST commoncpp2-1.8.1.tar.gz 908678 BLAKE2B 93868286230b4b0507127627f0a1c24b4f340e4af50d7592774b57bfc7a8f1e31bacc0cee5d17b4237aac85be0265cf3aabd65708e988159daaac85b4145c398 SHA512 949823461d20429c2b0acfa22554a5a9dacc977e3ee097f34416f65d322df84fbdb27c644435c6c6caaed800347dfbe789cee7f19b39b306165c97b4f4012bfe
diff --git a/dev-cpp/commoncpp2/commoncpp2-1.8.1-r4.ebuild b/dev-cpp/commoncpp2/commoncpp2-1.8.1-r4.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 399a2c7ed176d..0000000000000
--- a/dev-cpp/commoncpp2/commoncpp2-1.8.1-r4.ebuild
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@@ -1,75 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-
-inherit autotools
-
-DESCRIPTION="C++ library offering portable support for system-related services"
-HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/commoncpp/"
-SRC_URI="
-	mirror://gnu/commoncpp/${P}.tar.gz
-	https://dev.gentoo.org/~soap/distfiles/${P}-patches-r1.txz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ppc ppc64 x86"
-IUSE="debug doc examples gnutls ipv6 ssl"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	sys-libs/zlib:=
-	ssl? (
-		gnutls? (
-			dev-libs/libgcrypt:0=
-			net-libs/gnutls:=
-		)
-		!gnutls? (
-			dev-libs/openssl:0=
-		)
-	)"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
-BDEPEND="doc? ( >=app-doc/doxygen-1.3.6 )"
-
-PATCHES=(
-	"${WORKDIR}"/patches/1.8.1-configure_detect_netfilter.patch
-	"${WORKDIR}"/patches/1.8.1-glibc212.patch
-	"${WORKDIR}"/patches/1.8.1-autoconf-update.patch
-	"${WORKDIR}"/patches/1.8.1-fix-buffer-overflow.patch
-	"${WORKDIR}"/patches/1.8.1-parallel-build.patch
-	"${WORKDIR}"/patches/1.8.1-libgcrypt.patch
-	"${WORKDIR}"/patches/1.8.1-fix-c++14.patch
-	"${WORKDIR}"/patches/1.8.1-gnutls-3.4.patch
-	"${WORKDIR}"/patches/1.8.1-fix-gcc9.patch
-	"${WORKDIR}"/patches/1.8.1-c++17.patch
-	"${WORKDIR}"/patches/1.8.1-openssl-1.1.patch
-)
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-	eautoreconf
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	econf \
-		--disable-static \
-		$(use_enable debug) \
-		$(use_with ipv6) \
-		$(use_with ssl $(usex gnutls gnutls openssl)) \
-		$(use_with doc doxygen)
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	use doc && HTML_DOCS=( doc/html/. )
-	default
-
-	# package provides .pc files
-	find "${ED}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
-
-	dodoc COPYING.addendum
-
-	if use examples; then
-		docinto examples
-		dodoc demo/{*.cpp,*.h,*.xml,README}
-		docompress -x /usr/share/doc/${PF}/examples
-	fi
-}
diff --git a/dev-cpp/commoncpp2/metadata.xml b/dev-cpp/commoncpp2/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 85e4ed814fa25..0000000000000
--- a/dev-cpp/commoncpp2/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-<!-- maintainer-needed -->
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index a0d96d2e8fc48..5f79e70439c82 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -252,12 +252,6 @@ sys-cluster/csync2
 # Removal on 2022-07-13.  Bug #851678.
 dev-python/editdistance-s
 
-# Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> (2022-06-10)
-# Masked for removal on 2022-07-10. No upstream activity in a long time,
-# no reverse dependencies, and Gentoo maintains a huge number of patches
-# w/ no hope of them being upstreamed. Bug #850958.
-dev-cpp/commoncpp2
-
 # Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> (2022-05-30)
 # libwacom-2 broke ABI compatibility; reverse dependencies need to be updated.
 # Bug #848501