diff --git a/app-backup/borgmatic/Manifest b/app-backup/borgmatic/Manifest
index 2b789cbd22af1..c740c189f40fb 100644
--- a/app-backup/borgmatic/Manifest
+++ b/app-backup/borgmatic/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
 DIST borgmatic-1.5.21.tar.gz 278933 BLAKE2B b098334fa476304a8e63ceed37b3c2b9c67d0549bea6d06d8f0fd0f41f9812e79cea52f88fc15d2be29e491355f9544b6ccbe7c31936dfbd78eefd42e9ff2832 SHA512 e183269a0ac3ae049031832414d597ced8f75dd1f82d16379faec6d53566a1c19f51d613745e61077621381ee819d2f5dfc5cabaf9928a629f5cf3e13398503c
-DIST borgmatic-1.5.22.tar.gz 286392 BLAKE2B 99105661935b58a6e772d694214590ad13c3ff284eeccdb075b36f6a4c55abeaf02c46a49d01ab3ca165b47320280ef0bb2b2c978f039e7a695b50a6cafb8d1d SHA512 a9006685ca707ceca199cfae9d52414b0edd295afcff7478bfac16fc05c12d31ee6578b58970ead8f702a7b9928d33db8a32617bfb8f6e9e8d5fa06bddd6a02c
 DIST borgmatic-1.5.23.tar.gz 290506 BLAKE2B 9924d9df1cae7e4f97ff70eb16f84a2ee8a0fe0cd3a08add7a7ec59d269fb693f74350cdb45633fc4d76816614216a69a205504cac9c7608a635fc364253add6 SHA512 1b811fec2e814854459d10e4c90e552d90e0450d908931dbca5a838dc091c40dc6075c6fa09653a5aac69073e5b7600aed4beda4bc765daf0c6d8d2a00983ad7
diff --git a/app-backup/borgmatic/borgmatic-1.5.22.ebuild b/app-backup/borgmatic/borgmatic-1.5.22.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 78dc5cd647d1a..0000000000000
--- a/app-backup/borgmatic/borgmatic-1.5.22.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} )
-DISTUTILS_SINGLE_IMPL=1
-DISTUTILS_USE_SETUPTOOLS="rdepend"
-
-inherit distutils-r1 systemd
-
-DESCRIPTION="Automatically create, prune and verify backups with borgbackup"
-HOMEPAGE="https://torsion.org/borgmatic/"
-SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-3"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~riscv"
-
-# borg is called as an external tool, hence no pythonic stuff
-RDEPEND="app-backup/borgbackup
-	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
-		<dev-python/colorama-0.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/jsonschema[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/requests[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		<dev-python/ruamel-yaml-0.18.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	')"
-BDEPEND="
-	test? (
-		$(python_gen_cond_dep '
-			>=dev-python/flexmock-0.10.10[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		')
-	)"
-
-PATCHES=(
-	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.5.1-no_test_coverage.patch
-	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.5.16-systemd_service_bin_path.patch
-)
-
-# test_borgmatic_version_matches_news_version tries to run the 'borgmatic'
-# executable so making it work would require passing --install
-# to distutils_enable_tests. Given that this is the only test requiring
-# this and that all it does is make sure the NEWS file has been updated
-# for the current version, just skip it.
-EPYTEST_DESELECT=(
-	tests/integration/commands/test_borgmatic.py::test_borgmatic_version_matches_news_version
-)
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest
-
-src_install() {
-	distutils-r1_src_install
-	systemd_dounit sample/systemd/borgmatic.{service,timer}
-	keepdir /etc/borgmatic
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	if [[ -z "${REPLACING_VERSIONS}" ]]; then
-		elog "To generate a sample configuration file, run:"
-		elog "    generate-borgmatic-config"
-	fi
-	elog
-	elog "Systemd users wishing to periodically run borgmatic can use the provided timer and service units."
-}