diff --git a/app-editors/bluefish/Manifest b/app-editors/bluefish/Manifest
index 34fa4f1176605..8982e487ecb20 100644
--- a/app-editors/bluefish/Manifest
+++ b/app-editors/bluefish/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST bluefish-2.2.15.tar.bz2 4762151 BLAKE2B 18ea676f0853435203f119788082057dde499ce65a9ba3ac5e3a79c6cde26b6dd88694542d966f5c88d10b4aeaf8ae9ce016427491bed4a188037cf8685b59bf SHA512 86c31eba1bbc954d1dd39c5db8b9a276e6893e97130b259ee7eb3c32dd98510ce9d95b2d8f0922ac361fa7bc645e4e6251a97fc7da61cdcfaaf29f84b7ea38c7
 DIST bluefish-2.2.17.tar.bz2 4822187 BLAKE2B ebfc5482035d9e8613f84086420bc2a03ab19a2977cf299ef2bfd76cb8d68c2faae03a6ac86332ea56c55ce3ee5934fb86697f7429e0f8dd77e19d63d9235d25 SHA512 9815316f265c48ea37afa513e6530470f4c4af37f27ddf0873a8b27c5a3f58b3927614e7465e950b4eb05a93f3daab458ccbc70547484539568c3ca1499f6a46
diff --git a/app-editors/bluefish/bluefish-2.2.15.ebuild b/app-editors/bluefish/bluefish-2.2.15.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 520cc1cc440c5..0000000000000
--- a/app-editors/bluefish/bluefish-2.2.15.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,97 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{9..12} )
-
-MY_P=${P/_/-}
-inherit autotools python-single-r1 xdg
-
-DESCRIPTION="GTK HTML editor for the experienced web designer or programmer"
-HOMEPAGE="https://bluefish.openoffice.nl/"
-SRC_URI="https://www.bennewitz.com/bluefish/stable/source/${MY_P}.tar.bz2"
-
-S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
-LICENSE="GPL-3+"
-SLOT="0"
-
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 ~arm64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc x86"
-IUSE="gucharmap nls python spell"
-REQUIRED_USE="python? ( ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} )"
-
-RDEPEND="sys-libs/zlib
-	x11-libs/gtk+:3
-	gucharmap? ( gnome-extra/gucharmap:2.90 )
-	python? ( ${PYTHON_DEPS} )
-	spell? ( app-text/enchant:2 )"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	x11-libs/pango"
-BDEPEND=">=dev-libs/glib-2.24:2
-	dev-libs/libxml2:2
-	virtual/pkgconfig
-	nls? (
-		dev-util/intltool
-		sys-devel/gettext
-	)"
-
-# there actually is just some broken manpage checkup -> not bother
-RESTRICT="test"
-
-PATCHES=(
-	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-2.2.9-charmap_configure.patch"
-)
-
-pkg_setup() {
-	use python && python-single-r1_pkg_setup
-}
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-
-	# eautoreconf seems to no longer kill translation files.
-	eautoreconf
-	sed -i 's:gzip -n $< -c:gzip -n -c $<:' data/bflib/Makefile.* || die "Cannot fix makefile"
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	CONFIG_SHELL="${BROOT}/bin/bash" econf \
-		--disable-update-databases \
-		--disable-xml-catalog-update \
-		--with-freedesktop_org-appdata="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/metainfo \
-		--without-gtk2 \
-		$(use_with gucharmap charmap) \
-		$(use_enable nls) \
-		$(use_enable spell spell-check) \
-		$(use_enable python)
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	default
-
-	find "${ED}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	xdg_pkg_postinst
-
-	einfo "Adding XML catalog entries..."
-	"${EPREFIX}"/usr/bin/xmlcatalog  --noout \
-		--add 'public' 'Bluefish/DTD/Bflang' 'bflang.dtd' \
-		--add 'system' 'http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/DTD/bflang.dtd' 'bflang.dtd' \
-		--add 'rewriteURI' 'http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/DTD' '/usr/share/xml/bluefish-unstable' \
-		"${EROOT}"/etc/xml/catalog \
-		|| ewarn "Failed to add XML catalog entries."
-}
-
-pkg_postrm() {
-	xdg_pkg_postrm
-
-	einfo "Removing XML catalog entries..."
-	"${EPREFIX}"/usr/bin/xmlcatalog  --noout \
-		--del 'Bluefish/DTD/Bflang' \
-		--del 'http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/DTD/bflang.dtd' \
-		--del 'http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/DTD' \
-		"${EROOT}"/etc/xml/catalog \
-		|| ewarn "Failed to remove XML catalog entries."
-}