diff --git a/dev-java/rome/files/rome-0.9-build.xml-test-upstream.patch b/dev-java/rome/files/rome-0.9-build.xml-test-upstream.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 95e53f4f7f73d..0000000000000
--- a/dev-java/rome/files/rome-0.9-build.xml-test-upstream.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-===================================================================
-RCS file: /opt/sourcecast/data/ccvs/repository/rome/build.xml,v
-retrieving revision 1.14
-retrieving revision 1.15
-diff -u -r1.14 -r1.15
---- rome/build.xml	2006/12/04 21:47:37	1.14
-+++ rome/build.xml	2006/12/26 14:35:46	1.15
-@@ -131,6 +131,9 @@
-       <fileset dir="src/data">
-         <include name="**/*.xml" />
-       </fileset>
-+      <fileset dir="src/test">
-+        <include name="**/*.properties" />
-+      </fileset>
-     </copy>    
-   </target>
-   
diff --git a/dev-java/rome/rome-0.9-r3.ebuild b/dev-java/rome/rome-0.9-r3.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 15f76e221046c..0000000000000
--- a/dev-java/rome/rome-0.9-r3.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=5
-
-JAVA_PKG_IUSE="doc source test"
-
-inherit java-pkg-2 java-ant-2
-
-DESCRIPTION="Java framework for RSS and Atom feeds"
-HOMEPAGE="https://rometools.github.io/rome/"
-SRC_URI="mirror://gentoo/${P}.zip"
-LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 x86"
-
-CDEPEND="dev-java/jdom:0"
-
-DEPEND="
-	${CDEPEND}
-	app-arch/unzip
-	>=virtual/jdk-1.6
-	test? ( dev-java/ant-junit:0 )"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	${CDEPEND}
-	>=virtual/jre-1.6"
-
-EANT_GENTOO_CLASSPATH="jdom"
-
-JAVA_ANT_REWRITE_CLASSPATH="true"
-JAVA_ANT_ENCODING="ISO-8859-1"
-
-java_prepare() {
-	# Patch build.xml so the tests pass
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}/${P}-build.xml-test-upstream.patch"
-
-	# Keep Ant happy.
-	mkdir -p target/lib || die
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	java-pkg-2_src_test
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	java-pkg_newjar target/${P}.jar
-	use doc && java-pkg_dojavadoc dist/docs/api
-	use source && java-pkg_dosrc src/java/*
-}