diff --git a/dev-lang/crystal/Manifest b/dev-lang/crystal/Manifest
index c5cfcc8821e3b..890098d53fae4 100644
--- a/dev-lang/crystal/Manifest
+++ b/dev-lang/crystal/Manifest
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 DIST crystal-1.11.2-1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz 46947860 BLAKE2B c3f08d8a399c139f2eb465857142ad6faaf6925459318d5e6b5b5b879974cc63f43c99f8b2d1fa852fe239a81c0341e24c84023b8b8113bc2bfe9e4fe03c8346 SHA512 54cf8e24d5bd87602a65d22dfa0bbe3520b49cedb430d0652066caf2f47d1cea1bafdb852133a886f3c3b324826212dfa82ac15475ef044016b4b8210e20da39
 DIST crystal-1.11.2.tar.gz 3620048 BLAKE2B 3838f43897ba74a3c7f5717ba795f38cfd4265bbcbe11fa5a155d196afae40c60f7b5789c5d97e94eea1a1affb2cbd5c7fa9208e74a0fa7fa932b013e6124923 SHA512 e9b828539359fbae93799654f39b75c0c72764348ae279da326ac4ff4d2fa8e693c01956f5bc7ce1fff1504156049bf2b261c8defbde9cb690e1e84c13c8a296
-DIST crystal-1.12.0-1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz 47041886 BLAKE2B bdcfc974a8e37889455b07d3c9689a16ff72909819055a47167d5d1e6bd6f58ca6a89c395b7e8d9316a9db5df239586027b4c26b57f225a000a4b2697ff751af SHA512 fbfc096f0f879614e6f38a40477eb8c2749eb29fe1b988a4eed30a8ea706cbc6a8bf61840396b9c918cada857fb3a095d9c713615c5eb072e08bf82f633561d6
-DIST crystal-1.12.0.tar.gz 3655308 BLAKE2B 49f0d22cba830fefb3261c7411978eff6f2bb8845688d86c62b89376f5a5f2a5540ac97c6166e86553da93ad0cf2174853ca1bb0d7bc5af1df81adc1fce3f983 SHA512 69b2be677b6bda00e18054c1a18227feb3905fc7f5f235d7d70da6ce5463d0e0f3aa7cf57e7e986db6721753218235218aa3fd670cfdef3fbd71ebf43c6f25fa
 DIST crystal-1.12.1-1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz 47041074 BLAKE2B 7e5d4a422144902de4b187947d55f9e8069d55f51013e10236fcf79b142ff96fc39973c883f5a633fbd10180553b6c82bdea824bff09d355fa171e4f5e308b68 SHA512 3256dc2340ed7b783bdf7e5f3d5c03cf981655ac2f50921aa53ada13cc72315d5a70515adb1c511f0f6e37c09310a963773b4f57eaeffe34c68e539edaaa7726
 DIST crystal-1.12.1.tar.gz 3657963 BLAKE2B 42cf32dca63a2bdd2925b4970e2277cb163ddcdbcbc997b7c72b155024f642d03c5a565e82dfc8a2b1aed0d3f877633beb9d128eb592485c034bfdcbc3f5baab SHA512 bd0c085d44a473b86797fa64ce9a5c66c7d3eda44bdba929faee490b635aef45bdf84b45baaa5dfea8e2b6fd218d1ae7fbdf117d3924b04b284075d4a500e55c
diff --git a/dev-lang/crystal/crystal-1.12.0.ebuild b/dev-lang/crystal/crystal-1.12.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 02631f5f838fa..0000000000000
--- a/dev-lang/crystal/crystal-1.12.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,120 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-BV="${PV}-1"
-BV_AMD64="${BV}-linux-x86_64"
-
-LLVM_MAX_SLOT=17
-
-inherit bash-completion-r1 llvm multiprocessing toolchain-funcs
-
-DESCRIPTION="The Crystal Programming Language"
-HOMEPAGE="https://crystal-lang.org/
-	https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/"
-SRC_URI="
-	https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/archive/${PV}.tar.gz
-		-> ${P}.tar.gz
-	amd64? (
-		https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/releases/download/${BV/-*}/crystal-${BV_AMD64}.tar.gz
-	)
-"
-
-LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64"
-IUSE="doc debug llvm-libunwind"
-
-# Upstream test suite not reliable
-RESTRICT="test"
-
-DEPEND="
-	<sys-devel/llvm-$((${LLVM_MAX_SLOT} + 1)):=
-	dev-libs/boehm-gc:=[threads]
-	dev-libs/gmp:=
-	dev-libs/libatomic_ops:=
-	dev-libs/libevent:=
-	dev-libs/libpcre2:=[unicode]
-	dev-libs/pcl:=
-	llvm-libunwind? (
-		sys-libs/llvm-libunwind:=
-	)
-	!llvm-libunwind? (
-		sys-libs/libunwind:=
-	)
-"
-RDEPEND="
-	${DEPEND}
-	dev-libs/libxml2
-	dev-libs/libyaml
-"
-
-PATCHES=(
-	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-1.7.2-extra-spec-flags.patch"
-	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-0.27.0-gentoo-tests-long-unix.patch"
-	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-0.27.0-gentoo-tests-long-unix-2.patch"
-)
-
-src_configure() {
-	local bootstrap_path="${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${BV}/bin"
-	if [[ ! -d "${bootstrap_path}" ]] ; then
-		eerror "Binary tarball does not contain expected directory:"
-		die "'${bootstrap_path}' path does not exist."
-	fi
-
-	# crystal uses 'LLVM_TARGETS' to override default list of targets
-	unset LLVM_TARGETS
-
-	MY_EMAKE_COMMON_ARGS=(
-		PATH="${bootstrap_path}:${PATH}"
-
-		CRYSTAL_CONFIG_VERSION="${PV}"
-		CRYSTAL_CONFIG_PATH="lib:${EPREFIX}/usr/$(get_libdir)/crystal"
-
-		$(usex debug "" release=1)
-		progress=true
-		stats=1
-		threads="$(makeopts_jobs)"
-		verbose=1
-
-		AR="$(tc-getAR)"
-		CC="$(tc-getCC)"
-		CXX="$(tc-getCXX)"
-		LLVM_CONFIG="$(get_llvm_prefix "${LLVM_MAX_SLOT}")/bin/llvm-config"
-	)
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	emake "${MY_EMAKE_COMMON_ARGS[@]}"
-
-	use doc && emake docs "${MY_EMAKE_COMMON_ARGS[@]}"
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	# EXTRA_SPEC_FLAGS is useful to debug individual tests
-	# as part of full build:
-	#    USE=debug EXTRA_SPEC_FLAGS='-e parse_set_cookie' emerge -1 crystal
-	emake std_spec \
-		"${MY_EMAKE_COMMON_ARGS[@]}" "EXTRA_SPEC_FLAGS=${EXTRA_SPEC_FLAGS}"
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	insinto "/usr/$(get_libdir)/crystal"
-	doins -r src/.
-
-	exeinto /usr/bin
-	doexe .build/crystal
-
-	insinto /usr/share/zsh/site-functions
-	newins etc/completion.zsh _crystal
-
-	dodoc -r samples
-	doman "man/${PN}.1"
-	newbashcomp etc/completion.bash "${PN}"
-
-	if use doc ; then
-		docinto api
-		dodoc -r docs/.
-	fi
-}