diff --git a/dev-python/patch-ng/Manifest b/dev-python/patch-ng/Manifest
index 509614a0b5a45..9db98c017fbe1 100644
--- a/dev-python/patch-ng/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/patch-ng/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST patch-ng-1.17.4.gh.tar.gz 168306 BLAKE2B 78067e3c3d296a21f8fd4155fe770245ba4457cb9e37003f5e7667c30827878a8c06d62c77bb1fdaf61b96a813612a7c39800d7040b13a9d18f0baeccbd86ba1 SHA512 919c04c3adfa36672f3db5f1761a12ccbb08ccfb890015bb0d27b1801c8c7dba99c4da01674b269703a7cbf39df5889f5c446551bb4cf7039dc383c23d8a5db3
 DIST patch-ng-1.18.0.gh.tar.gz 166380 BLAKE2B b3a53f2586763000c9a38d2acf25b4b1d236f34da8f0d0105a78d07bee46f30b5fb27ad0223cf274e83def6e66a1ec752f672d0a7e7df2f08280116ed26add30 SHA512 e4c271d5b8bfdcc756a8bb4f678de29f573190a4c1b3e9eb4b6c2564b008c38eb022c644c1bbee2412e7ee2e0ba08c161408303a3fbd223decd85bb6e63f24a9
diff --git a/dev-python/patch-ng/patch-ng-1.17.4-r1.ebuild b/dev-python/patch-ng/patch-ng-1.17.4-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index f92f1b0c4aea3..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/patch-ng/patch-ng-1.17.4-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..12} )
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="Library to parse and apply unified diffs, fork of dev-python/patch"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/conan-io/python-patch-ng https://pypi.org/project/patch-ng/"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/conan-io/python-patch-ng/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.gh.tar.gz"
-S="${WORKDIR}/python-${P}"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 arm64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
-
-distutils_enable_tests unittest
-
-python_test() {
-	"${EPYTHON}" -m unittest -v tests/run_tests.py || die "Tests failed under ${EPYTHON}"
-}