diff --git a/dev-java/json/Manifest b/dev-java/json/Manifest
index 94e019b823ba2..8ec298d2fdf18 100644
--- a/dev-java/json/Manifest
+++ b/dev-java/json/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST json-20250107.tar.gz 260468 BLAKE2B 830c43e242204cfa1cd544b05ca99664c6401665d7937fade4435c502061a76809828ee70bb3375d2b81a224c5051837f603f895fcd6ebeaf3313cd8402043af SHA512 8b56c0c3e03377a25c5f4ac0a30e0ff050c71f282b123236a699af7905d7fd2d809f9fa85276fd22f744763a72a2709a8999f900a269e0e3b1373423ed2bab19
 DIST json-20250517.tar.gz 264229 BLAKE2B fd720a9d0726735a11277553c6ff3f5f1a4cb2d8191b714058576e641ebfda19d057ab4c5a9bb8013a227cba6b43fb3e742e34741c3771ade04f7237a45915cd SHA512 fc58d061882e50f2da60cfa2587d58b868647fa9ebaa0a3375b38b820ff28b7ede2841da7e06345c149a25e47d664db9cab09e1a86ad9af5a46607bbabf8d981
diff --git a/dev-java/json/json-20250107.ebuild b/dev-java/json/json-20250107.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 7d2ce317ac054..0000000000000
--- a/dev-java/json/json-20250107.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,78 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-JAVA_PKG_IUSE="doc source test"
-MAVEN_ID="org.json:json:${PV}"
-JAVA_TESTING_FRAMEWORKS="junit-4"
-
-inherit java-pkg-2 java-pkg-simple check-reqs
-
-DESCRIPTION="A reference implementation of a JSON package in Java"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/stleary/JSON-java"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/stleary/JSON-java/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-S="${WORKDIR}/JSON-java-${PV}"
-
-LICENSE="JSON"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64"
-
-DEPEND="
-	>=virtual/jdk-1.8:*
-	test? (
-		>=dev-java/asm-9.8:0
-		dev-java/json-path:0
-		>=dev-java/json-smart-2.5.2:0
-		dev-java/mockito:4
-		dev-java/slf4j-api:0
-	)
-"
-
-RDEPEND=">=virtual/jre-1.8:*"
-
-DOCS=( {CONTRIBUTING,README,SECURITY}.md )
-
-JAVA_AUTOMATIC_MODULE_NAME="org.json"
-JAVA_SRC_DIR="src/main/java"
-
-JAVA_TEST_GENTOO_CLASSPATH="
-	asm
-	json-path
-	json-smart
-	junit-4
-	mockito-4
-	slf4j-api
-"
-JAVA_TEST_RESOURCE_DIRS="src/test/resources"
-JAVA_TEST_SRC_DIR="src/test/java"
-
-check_env() {
-	if use test; then
-		# this is needed only for tests
-		CHECKREQS_MEMORY="2048M"
-		check-reqs_pkg_pretend
-	fi
-}
-
-pkg_pretend() {
-	check_env
-}
-
-pkg_setup() {
-	check_env
-	java-pkg-2_pkg_setup
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	# setting Xms for bug #930723
-	# gradlew: DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"
-	JAVA_TEST_EXTRA_ARGS=" -Xmx${CHECKREQS_MEMORY}"
-
-	local vm_version="$(java-config -g PROVIDES_VERSION)"
-	if ver_test "${vm_version}" -ge 17; then
-		JAVA_TEST_EXTRA_ARGS+=( --add-opens=java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED )
-		JAVA_TEST_EXTRA_ARGS+=( --add-opens=java.base/java.io=ALL-UNNAMED )
-	fi
-	java-pkg-simple_src_test
-}