diff --git a/dev-libs/icu-le-hb/Manifest b/dev-libs/icu-le-hb/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index 500dd55654adc..0000000000000
--- a/dev-libs/icu-le-hb/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-DIST icu-le-hb-1.2.3.tar.gz 45191 BLAKE2B 14ad8592a27ff8673d9609a689bedf5094c127bb9cb638a1e65c1fcb6e22e8c488f89e55af5578cd4961a34feafffd5df9cdedb20dfc7edcc4d6f63aec1eff0f SHA512 c1450e28c1984a409cacc2b675ab91fa0e80edfbbfb201913cb83e435fd30f3a3ad78ca32f8cf092c5f056f2812b899ceb4471b36ef975faf5be892d305a1efd
-DIST icu-le-hb-2.0.0.tar.gz 421450 BLAKE2B 20b72590ff5b968754ab369f57770c449fa68e001c9211987adf708447a6ee956266b1fa64049651b2b132afcb98f9c456d3549e48db5d8d40faa0ec90cd801d SHA512 aa8d822ef3c471a8e4325a8f4bc01011e096b7fcc0c7cbab3849f91bda6b802397c831e8db34525ebaa2b14e2a007a5728af92e75f0605d944973984c2ceec28
diff --git a/dev-libs/icu-le-hb/icu-le-hb-1.2.3.ebuild b/dev-libs/icu-le-hb/icu-le-hb-1.2.3.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index d60924e716b82..0000000000000
--- a/dev-libs/icu-le-hb/icu-le-hb-1.2.3.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-inherit autotools multilib-minimal
-
-DESCRIPTION="ICU Layout Engine API on top of HarfBuzz shaping library"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz
-https://github.com/harfbuzz/icu-le-hb"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/behdad/${PN}/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="icu"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 ~arm64 ~hppa ppc ppc64 sparc x86"
-IUSE=""
-
-# dev-libs/icu is not linked into icu-le-hb but the latter still needs
-# to be rebuilt on dev-libs/icu upgrades (see bug #621786).
-RDEPEND="
-	dev-libs/icu:=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
-	media-libs/harfbuzz:=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
-"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
-BDEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig"
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-	eautoreconf
-}
-
-multilib_src_configure() {
-	ECONF_SOURCE="${S}" econf
-}
-
-multilib_src_install_all() {
-	find "${ED}" -type f -name "*.la" -delete || die
-}
diff --git a/dev-libs/icu-le-hb/icu-le-hb-2.0.0.ebuild b/dev-libs/icu-le-hb/icu-le-hb-2.0.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 2bd9c7b1c86a9..0000000000000
--- a/dev-libs/icu-le-hb/icu-le-hb-2.0.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-inherit multilib-minimal
-
-DESCRIPTION="ICU Layout Engine API on top of HarfBuzz shaping library"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz https://github.com/harfbuzz/icu-le-hb"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/harfbuzz/icu-le-hb/releases/download/${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="icu"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 ~arm64 ~hppa ppc ppc64 sparc x86"
-
-# dev-libs/icu is not linked into icu-le-hb but the latter still needs
-# to be rebuilt on dev-libs/icu upgrades (see bug #621786).
-RDEPEND="
-	dev-libs/icu:=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
-	>=media-libs/harfbuzz-2.0.0:=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
-"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
-BDEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig"
-
-multilib_src_configure() {
-	ECONF_SOURCE="${S}" econf
-}
-
-multilib_src_install_all() {
-	find "${ED}" -type f -name "*.la" -delete || die
-}
diff --git a/dev-libs/icu-le-hb/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/icu-le-hb/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index cdf9518f649c1..0000000000000
--- a/dev-libs/icu-le-hb/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="project">
-    <email>office@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>Gentoo Office project</name>
-  </maintainer>
-  <upstream>
-    <remote-id type="github">behdad/icu-le-hb</remote-id>
-  </upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/metadata/stabilization-groups/icu.group b/metadata/stabilization-groups/icu.group
index c1abf7c71a338..56ddc392d5291 100644
--- a/metadata/stabilization-groups/icu.group
+++ b/metadata/stabilization-groups/icu.group
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
 dev-libs/icu
-dev-libs/icu-le-hb
 sec-keys/openpgp-keys-icu
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index c0e9e73a42f9f..516ec4836761a 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -280,12 +280,6 @@ media-libs/oneVPL-cpu
 # Pretest versions, masked for testing.
 <app-editors/emacs-30.1.9999:30-vcs
 
-# David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org> (2025-05-17)
-# Historically split from dev-libs/icu, disabled by default upstream and not
-# recommended anymore. If need be, we can make it optional in icu itself.
-# Removal on 2025-06-16. Bug #956106.
-dev-libs/icu-le-hb
-
 # Alfred Wingate <parona@protonmail.com> (2025-05-17)
 # Masked for testing
 dev-db/mysql:8.4