diff --git a/dev-python/thrift/Manifest b/dev-python/thrift/Manifest
index 66eba4ce5fdb6..840a578b3e876 100644
--- a/dev-python/thrift/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/thrift/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST thrift-0.21.0.tar.gz 4398072 BLAKE2B 1cbbecd0a4ecfe1a14b657d2a87286ad821e821894efde226aa96b23c62250c6bb032e703e0031990328b263593d92024f28b907e8dc27c217d475f6f3b90932 SHA512 0ffca1232305c07f803adb7239b5d22ee5c766a2809703c127b45a80b820c677e05a2d5b82852af5e1e923abe07ff1d9eb2f3fa4f2aa8732c9a81d8b0daa1f35
 DIST thrift-0.22.0.tar.gz 4422267 BLAKE2B b91b3379dcce0222e0cc29cd783710ef183694d96e4794535d72a7a49764e994e70a6560841bc93668d4997a68f405eaa5a5f2d0c5a1c6238c6bd9b3556d9400 SHA512 beb37ee2a295fae7df12cce6449c92799076771bae515fafcc790a62ac6e76ac5584f102315d466b8f5f98e236c9dc4a244695bdcd9f1392d6e9a13d365ddadc
diff --git a/dev-python/thrift/thrift-0.21.0.ebuild b/dev-python/thrift/thrift-0.21.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index ff743da12930d..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/thrift/thrift-0.21.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
-DISTUTILS_EXT=1
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..13} )
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="Python implementation of Thrift"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://pypi.org/project/thrift/
-	https://thrift.apache.org/
-	https://github.com/apache/thrift
-"
-SRC_URI="
-	https://downloads.apache.org/${PN}/${PV}/${P}.tar.gz
-	https://archive.apache.org/dist/${PN}/${PV}/${P}.tar.gz
-"
-S="${WORKDIR}/${P}/lib/py"
-
-LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ~riscv x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
-
-distutils_enable_tests unittest
-
-python_test() {
-	eunittest test
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	distutils-r1_src_install
-	# avoid file collision with dev-libs/thrift (bug #933272)
-	mv "${D}"/usr/share/doc/${P}/README.md \
-		"${D}"/usr/share/doc/${P}/ReadMe.md || die
-}