diff --git a/dev-perl/Hash-Merge-Simple/Hash-Merge-Simple-0.51.0-r1.ebuild b/dev-perl/Hash-Merge-Simple/Hash-Merge-Simple-0.51.0-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 22b8187389f95..0000000000000
--- a/dev-perl/Hash-Merge-Simple/Hash-Merge-Simple-0.51.0-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DIST_AUTHOR=ROKR
-DIST_VERSION=0.051
-inherit perl-module
-
-DESCRIPTION="Recursively merge two or more hashes, simply"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	dev-perl/Clone
-	virtual/perl-Storable
-"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	>=virtual/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.310.0
-	test? (
-		dev-perl/Test-Most
-	)
-"
diff --git a/dev-perl/Hash-Merge-Simple/Manifest b/dev-perl/Hash-Merge-Simple/Manifest
index 3804bbf749808..d774b38a4e015 100644
--- a/dev-perl/Hash-Merge-Simple/Manifest
+++ b/dev-perl/Hash-Merge-Simple/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST Hash-Merge-Simple-0.051.tar.gz 4181 BLAKE2B e5f742f1fd7bfdc0d88784cd99b86ff5d846c274b1861f84331060f12141232903d06d7efb724b2932252ac5ac8cd6fc85d6af2dbb10ba79e5e0a257c4698e76 SHA512 8db850144593632ce8ac8a560dac6670814a9ce3d1091d6aa42ab0eadca4b350671103b1de906d562aeaa0934fd58bd4e557821c5bcd730a10849f8505f65c4c
 DIST Hash-Merge-Simple-0.052.tar.gz 17507 BLAKE2B a1337d9f73fea4bc1a6031fe0c7e5d2fb79d1937789094f34ce7c687177658d0bb52631c010c6461a9785c25416fda14e3bedcc61e142c368494f95d339ff5cd SHA512 e682f1636ebd5a786820e4355bcc20e64ded2a95b5bec08b62782e7acde3533f99da901590b4264a500a26df2c0403927746544a8cfba5841da32027492ee8fa