diff --git a/dev-libs/appstream/Manifest b/dev-libs/appstream/Manifest
index abea1b801efa9..d5a5d81b10f9b 100644
--- a/dev-libs/appstream/Manifest
+++ b/dev-libs/appstream/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST AppStream-1.0.4.tar.xz 2719900 BLAKE2B e8b3ca6092d4cddf73e5f902ac9d5e071d9eb31d8b206fd814e2078f5bcfcba1683e97beccaea9e7024da0285d77c63fb426e3b3d17f15c3add332e964e313d3 SHA512 ea0f9e226401b6c5a004676d14d01c195da295269169807bc956dbfd1d4f4b2b4ba61fe905fbefbe3c562a502c31fc869aba9e87c490dcac1d861f50038d14f1
 DIST AppStream-1.0.6.tar.xz 2736948 BLAKE2B aa2990cb6ead911a04fc534a92773f43981d8303b81f11390bcf978df7e6ea65f10e2328d9848546a1126d5cfb98971502506779a4a6aba29549a0af2fa84867 SHA512 a7a34ce2b37f7a3d9f22a69ff4a546d4fb33edaec4a303bd7541ede990d8a2c2a67d17f61c9cf09d75af277e308d21baaf42d6b968eca1a11d1df983a27e02a5
diff --git a/dev-libs/appstream/appstream-1.0.4-r1.ebuild b/dev-libs/appstream/appstream-1.0.4-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index e4afc3877f64a..0000000000000
--- a/dev-libs/appstream/appstream-1.0.4-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,94 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-inherit meson xdg-utils vala
-
-if [[ ${PV} == *9999* ]]; then
-	inherit git-r3
-	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/ximion/${PN}"
-else
-	MY_PN="AppStream"
-	SRC_URI="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/releases/${MY_PN}-${PV}.tar.xz"
-	KEYWORDS="amd64 arm arm64 ~loong ppc ppc64 ~riscv x86"
-	S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_PN}-${PV}"
-fi
-
-DESCRIPTION="Cross-distro effort for providing metadata for software in the Linux ecosystem"
-HOMEPAGE="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Distributions/AppStream/"
-
-LICENSE="LGPL-2.1+ GPL-2+"
-# check as_api_level
-SLOT="0/5"
-IUSE="apt compose doc +introspection qt6 systemd test vala"
-RESTRICT="test" # bug 691962
-
-RDEPEND="
-	app-arch/zstd:=
-	>=dev-libs/glib-2.62:2
-	dev-libs/libxml2:2=
-	>=dev-libs/libxmlb-0.3.14:=
-	dev-libs/libyaml
-	dev-libs/snowball-stemmer:=
-	>=net-misc/curl-7.62
-	compose? (
-		dev-libs/glib:2
-		dev-libs/libyaml
-		gnome-base/librsvg:2
-		media-libs/fontconfig:1.0
-		media-libs/freetype:2
-		x11-libs/cairo
-		x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf:2
-	)
-	introspection? ( >=dev-libs/gobject-introspection-1.82.0-r2:= )
-	qt6? ( dev-qt/qtbase:6 )
-	systemd? ( sys-apps/systemd:= )
-"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
-BDEPEND="
-	app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets
-	dev-libs/appstream-glib
-	dev-libs/libxslt
-	dev-util/glib-utils
-	dev-util/gperf
-	dev-util/itstool
-	>=sys-devel/gettext-0.19.8
-	doc? ( app-text/docbook-xml-dtd:4.5 )
-	test? ( dev-qt/qttools:6[linguist] )
-	vala? ( $(vala_depend) )
-"
-
-PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.0.0-disable-Werror-flags.patch ) # bug 733774
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-	sed -e "/^as_doc_target_dir/s/appstream/${PF}/" -i docs/meson.build || die
-	if ! use test; then
-		sed -e "/^subdir.*tests/s/^/#DONT /" -i {,qt/}meson.build || die # bug 675944
-	fi
-
-	use vala && vala_setup
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	xdg_environment_reset
-
-	local emesonargs=(
-		-Dapidocs=false
-		-Ddocs=false
-		-Dcompose=false
-		-Dmaintainer=false
-		-Dstatic-analysis=false
-		-Dstemming=true
-		-Dvapi=$(usex vala true false)
-		-Dapt-support=$(usex apt true false)
-		-Dcompose=$(usex compose true false)
-		-Dinstall-docs=$(usex doc true false)
-		-Dgir=$(usex introspection true false)
-		-Dqt=$(usex qt6 true false)
-		-Dsystemd=$(usex systemd true false)
-	)
-
-	meson_src_configure
-}