diff --git a/dev-python/pdm-backend/Manifest b/dev-python/pdm-backend/Manifest
index 87204cd1e7fab..b7671adaac3ef 100644
--- a/dev-python/pdm-backend/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/pdm-backend/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-DIST pdm-backend-2.4.6.gh.tar.gz 162757 BLAKE2B 2e2de500fa61f059d350388c73b9585c582f1bf4b6a45a2215e97a8c130873d2ffad3113fdf0db7ea16eb49066e09539d7db7cf3a55be4098180837c51efa8d0 SHA512 132bfe38fe7a70e99f5d6dc92963068d057ed08b811324f379eb0e3feb7108cf52c930e5aa67ce8ae6ff21201f33a8b6c74dcd3afbd1d6e711569cb26ffc7248
 DIST pdm-backend-2.4.7.gh.tar.gz 162824 BLAKE2B 113e69b1ec8a667331ad17779cea5b32ce04f8d72a4e17a8ff857d45ac64d962e767aaaf50d402fcc57fb274b9b28db1838016638cf39c4ec2165ac88ee8b3e9 SHA512 2582487b825fbeadd673c430cb22fbd1b79b0e080a3aac45aaa716cad56d606f5a96d74faf7e68e6f028a1c2ef11c69d7713de6d3ae7947a9f99e0a30828e4a2
 DIST pdm-backend-2.4.8.gh.tar.gz 159228 BLAKE2B ddba89eab214262813cbe003f2793a5cd8edf03cf0650b7b4a625d2b6e54233cb63bd06e5f8ed4a47ca061e68d796d509555d53657fbb64b34ceaf2d48cf047c SHA512 ba5ff3926b3dfaa194b9faa2bb3727343aa36f28a60d5a33dc39d822900c0c650a39c34338c95f4c8ffaf1736aac24a215812ff5ea2c58e3e68cf2d431826c79
diff --git a/dev-python/pdm-backend/pdm-backend-2.4.6.ebuild b/dev-python/pdm-backend/pdm-backend-2.4.6.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 64b5c7c339c28..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/pdm-backend/pdm-backend-2.4.6.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,75 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2022-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=standalone
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..14} python3_{13,14}t pypy3_11 )
-
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="A PEP 517 backend for PDM that supports PEP 621 metadata"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://pypi.org/project/pdm-backend/
-	https://github.com/pdm-project/pdm-backend/
-"
-SRC_URI="
-	https://github.com/pdm-project/pdm-backend/archive/${PV}.tar.gz
-		-> ${P}.gh.tar.gz
-"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc x86"
-
-# see src/pdm/backend/_vendor/vendor.txt
-RDEPEND="
-	>=dev-python/editables-0.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/packaging-24.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/pyproject-metadata-0.9.0_beta7[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/tomli-w-1.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-
-	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
-		>=dev-python/tomli-2.0.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	' 3.10)
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	${RDEPEND}
-	test? (
-		dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-vcs/git
-	)
-"
-# setuptools are used to build C extensions
-RDEPEND+="
-	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-"
-
-EPYTEST_PLUGINS=()
-distutils_enable_tests pytest
-
-src_prepare() {
-	rm -r src/pdm/backend/_vendor || die
-	find -name '*.py' -exec sed \
-		-e 's:from pdm\.backend\._vendor\.:from :' \
-		-e 's:from pdm\.backend\._vendor ::' \
-		-e 's:import pdm\.backend\._vendor\.:import :' \
-		-i {} + || die
-	distutils-r1_src_prepare
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	# this must not be set during src_test()
-	local -x PDM_BUILD_SCM_VERSION=${PV}
-	distutils-r1_src_compile
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	git config --global user.email "test@example.com" || die
-	git config --global user.name "Test User" || die
-	distutils-r1_src_test
-}
-
-python_test() {
-	epytest -k "not [hg"
-}