diff --git a/dev-python/cachetools/Manifest b/dev-python/cachetools/Manifest
index f52d8e0813d01..fc19365e66c75 100644
--- a/dev-python/cachetools/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/cachetools/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST cachetools-5.5.0.tar.gz 27661 BLAKE2B b46cdaeb2e2589eecedd2add633d92901be317120f70fbc04b6f552ce87d0cad9fe8e1e561e96a7f76d3617b02f5e02c0a1162a6a267f1ba6a8dbb283e7d8585 SHA512 fac6516880b83e0722e52037bed66c9a2b7ed683ccabca953ab82a27c47ae85a76a8abdc35e584c2c46ed194c1fbb8e3e5d6680235e0c4450d89a95c46904f51
 DIST cachetools-5.5.1.tar.gz 28044 BLAKE2B a670460a89af39f636b7dd9b0e963edff930440c9104474c169504a7cb22de1757b7739e9e8d349a96657d3531c56694cfb91d8c8b33880aef17485a8098c37e SHA512 2709dfb1e937c7b1a232466856817ae74623940219e00ec6ddf2450c70f5fc0597faa0b1f0e10387b3668e939d6e3afa3b983879b51111904ff06f4fb9a693fc
diff --git a/dev-python/cachetools/cachetools-5.5.0.ebuild b/dev-python/cachetools/cachetools-5.5.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 8e05d2b651271..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/cachetools/cachetools-5.5.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..13} pypy3 )
-
-inherit distutils-r1 pypi
-
-DESCRIPTION="Extensible memoizing collections and decorators"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://github.com/tkem/cachetools/
-	https://pypi.org/project/cachetools/
-"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~loong ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86"
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest