diff --git a/app-emacs/ebuild-mode/Manifest b/app-emacs/ebuild-mode/Manifest
index 007708032373..6829bd520176 100644
--- a/app-emacs/ebuild-mode/Manifest
+++ b/app-emacs/ebuild-mode/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST ebuild-mode-1.78.tar.xz 51124 BLAKE2B 21267b78de39be96a726ef7d044fe85a43c0782e0a10b427af25b00366f271f6f8a04a2493026ae633a3accd644ff6c73f2050896c59844b6decc78e4dd8279d SHA512 a4a637f6c138e4dfde58cee9484927dce9271f3c1d801d105c73c5a9cefef530e6eced74a55223a638613d9381f590741ba4ea96f638f2c5976f4fe71757a07c
 DIST ebuild-mode-1.79.tar.xz 51536 BLAKE2B fd53b083ca72854e33ecc81c86a5d972cd3efa3768fa5250b4c9771ad7989f751a12563a37048af5161f0634b6b92512566159b338cd7303fdd586a50334f193 SHA512 c659851eea7e5c6c5796cb9d6c5a6daf062cdc6aa64406125aa8f48d59433191e7b34894545e8c70e4b9deaa40b4df5a1de7560974c78e45e8ab8d9da99c78f8
diff --git a/app-emacs/ebuild-mode/ebuild-mode-1.78.ebuild b/app-emacs/ebuild-mode/ebuild-mode-1.78.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 6bcfee220449..000000000000
--- a/app-emacs/ebuild-mode/ebuild-mode-1.78.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-inherit elisp optfeature
-
-DESCRIPTION="Emacs modes for editing ebuilds and other Gentoo specific files"
-HOMEPAGE="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Emacs"
-SRC_URI="https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/emacs/${P}.tar.xz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2+"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~loong ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos"
-
-BDEPEND="sys-apps/texinfo"
-
-DOCS="ChangeLog keyword-generation.sh"
-ELISP_TEXINFO="${PN}.texi"
-SITEFILE="50${PN}-gentoo-1.72.el"
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	elisp_pkg_postinst
-	optfeature "ebuild commands support" sys-apps/portage
-	optfeature "additional development tools" dev-util/pkgdev
-	optfeature "ebuild QA utilities" dev-util/pkgcheck
-	optfeature "decode ANSI colors in build.log" app-emacs/tty-format
-	optfeature "XML syntax validation" app-emacs/nxml-gentoo-schemas
-	optfeature "generating HTML from GLEPs" dev-python/docutils-glep
-}