diff --git a/dev-python/Levenshtein/Levenshtein-0.20.8.ebuild b/dev-python/Levenshtein/Levenshtein-0.20.8.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index ed97153de7549..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/Levenshtein/Levenshtein-0.20.8.ebuild
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@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-# custom wrapper over setuptools
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=standalone
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{9..11} )
-
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="Functions for fast computation of Levenshtein distance, and edit operations"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://pypi.org/project/Levenshtein/
-	https://github.com/maxbachmann/Levenshtein/
-"
-SRC_URI="
-	https://github.com/maxbachmann/Levenshtein/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz
-		-> ${P}.gh.tar.gz
-"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2+"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 arm arm64 ~ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv sparc x86"
-
-DEPEND="
-	>=dev-cpp/rapidfuzz-cpp-1.7.0
-"
-RDEPEND="
-	<dev-python/rapidfuzz-3.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	dev-python/cython[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/scikit-build-0.13.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-"
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest
-
-src_prepare() {
-	# sterilize build flags
-	sed -i -e '/CMAKE_INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION/d' CMakeLists.txt || die
-
-	distutils-r1_src_prepare
-}
diff --git a/dev-python/Levenshtein/Manifest b/dev-python/Levenshtein/Manifest
index 5c48d7380720e..7ff5f981e527e 100644
--- a/dev-python/Levenshtein/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/Levenshtein/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
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 DIST Levenshtein-0.20.9.gh.tar.gz 36617 BLAKE2B 8e995f1c1648c81bea20844f7afc3c5dddd7dc31e5b6fc99a96930130c7f85bb32c4c4c85b319149d8511f6591ede96098038ea1b502a3e33a42ca3d21db4e2a SHA512 1d5dccd33ae8bd19b234861435212c7a57ba330a5f76a45c9e5b8ac3e401bc3d5eb3c72aea20e66bf0ebaaa6b760131dfef07fb5a2cf4d7191b595e1d962d93c
 DIST python-Levenshtein-0.12.2.tar.gz 50502 BLAKE2B d8992d30639e36aac1b85fada8f5273ed867aa3019208ffeb9972e999dad783d4ee16e1f6988c9306eb80f622b61fcf3a0a937b380c7a5acf50223268ed8de1d SHA512 97eac9d19121758af7620ad3963846e48434ceabb5376a83f28452015adf1a620620bfb53edb1c4f60b0fc8ec2b0faf35a105d7e2a0fc5df7a45fce81ba0dcdb