diff --git a/dev-python/coverage/Manifest b/dev-python/coverage/Manifest
index 15127ce82e80a..6637535cb66f9 100644
--- a/dev-python/coverage/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/coverage/Manifest
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 DIST coverage-7.6.10.tar.gz 803868 BLAKE2B 88ab379f33ca3056b03020befa56406b3e4d8ce57f9152abddefbf77186dbccd993e855078ea6f61ed2da3d198aab9b63e65fb9db3789a80bb080b1907e9de80 SHA512 3badf42f8f1f1dc19ff7dd7cca7fe57cd738364fea71b1fee52ec7774fbebd2bb241154d2ca06adb6ed87766179bcf0b6eb9a5120af5ec8f3df7b6fd0c27fa02
 DIST coverage-7.6.11.tar.gz 805460 BLAKE2B f035dfb27242926727875a806acd6725720d8828de0285cdcdc3aac406395b2648b00c75b206338ff282d0c98e70d2abf4fc13c4a1862317c7fd88c5d83de1b4 SHA512 83ce4fd99900bb4902fc25ecf386e0128f0c073f5c1ce3403149e175d8a55b177209c9413ae33b1ab3d2f6decdd4614f5a5a3c3f36d326cfc0d62c13e64d1250
 DIST coverage-7.6.12.tar.gz 805941 BLAKE2B bebcd2f29706445ac73ca1e1ba7a80b88eb7b71ee0f475ea6fe4d7e2bd535b709af6cc5e1dda9734e9487cdcf8d3b6f24c96eb2e7161a9d8356afe733b162339 SHA512 6f5f089938b0d107796ec7f5eb62047533bb45377612845cc044f44ceb10285252783d5ad1aefde698374d8330c012ff59007d21b00e4cee79c268fac70f6a71
-DIST coverage-7.6.9.tar.gz 801710 BLAKE2B ac3a28d939e5ad7af341e8ef6ac2021ce9aad14117a4f6a31ae68432a0d55c2721c0f99a5e4fec40d4f2bf293e1cd549533643d3f1d6dd20997955614c7eb987 SHA512 ee2e3f93dfd723dabe3c88bac888c056f8dabc890d9078c49393d01c21522d946f7f6d50565a978dfc1d5b8009eca612d9a102a86f568689adc85df8478ecb8c
diff --git a/dev-python/coverage/coverage-7.6.9.ebuild b/dev-python/coverage/coverage-7.6.9.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index a00cbee03d968..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/coverage/coverage-7.6.9.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,102 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_EXT=1
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..13} pypy3 )
-PYTHON_REQ_USE="threads(+),sqlite(+)"
-
-inherit distutils-r1 pypi
-
-DESCRIPTION="Code coverage measurement for Python"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://coverage.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
-	https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy/
-	https://pypi.org/project/coverage/
-"
-
-LICENSE="BSD"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86 ~x64-macos"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
-		dev-python/tomli[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	' 3.10)
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	test? (
-		dev-python/flaky[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/hypothesis[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/pytest-xdist[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/unittest-mixins-1.4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	)
-"
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest
-
-src_prepare() {
-	sed -i -e '/addopts/s:-q -n auto::' pyproject.toml || die
-	distutils-r1_src_prepare
-}
-
-test_tracer() {
-	local -x COVERAGE_CORE=${1}
-	einfo "  Testing with the ${COVERAGE_CORE} core ..."
-	epytest -p flaky -p hypothesis -p xdist tests
-}
-
-python_test() {
-	local EPYTEST_DESELECT=(
-		# TODO: fails because of additional "Terminated" print on SIGTERM
-		tests/test_concurrency.py::SigtermTest::test_sigterm_threading_saves_data
-		# broken because of pytest plugins explicity loaded
-		tests/test_debug.py::ShortStackTest::test_short_stack{,_skip}
-		# these expect specific availability of C extension matching
-		# COVERAGE_CORE (which breaks testing pytracer on CPython)
-		tests/test_cmdline.py::CmdLineStdoutTest::test_version
-		tests/test_debug.py::DebugTraceTest::test_debug_sys_ctracer
-		# mismatch of expected concurrency in error message
-		# TODO: report upstream?
-		tests/test_concurrency.py::ConcurrencyTest::test_greenlet
-		tests/test_concurrency.py::ConcurrencyTest::test_greenlet_simple_code
-	)
-	local EPYTEST_IGNORE=(
-		# pip these days insists on fetching build deps from Internet
-		tests/test_venv.py
-	)
-
-	"${EPYTHON}" igor.py zip_mods || die
-
-	local -x COVERAGE_TESTING=True
-	# TODO: figure out why they can't be imported inside test env
-	local -x COVERAGE_NO_CONTRACTS=1
-	local -x PYTEST_DISABLE_PLUGIN_AUTOLOAD=1
-
-	local prev_opt=$(shopt -p nullglob)
-	shopt -s nullglob
-	local c_ext=( "${BUILD_DIR}/install$(python_get_sitedir)"/coverage/*.so )
-	${prev_opt}
-
-	if [[ -n ${c_ext} ]]; then
-		cp "${c_ext}" coverage/ || die
-		test_tracer ctrace
-	fi
-
-	test_tracer pytrace
-
-	case ${EPYTHON} in
-		python3.1[01]|pypy3)
-			;;
-		*)
-			# available since Python 3.12
-			test_tracer sysmon
-			;;
-	esac
-
-	if [[ -n ${c_ext} ]]; then
-		rm coverage/*.so || die
-	fi
-}