diff --git a/dev-python/kombu/Manifest b/dev-python/kombu/Manifest
index 11c7d08d1b293..8e67345865537 100644
--- a/dev-python/kombu/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/kombu/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST kombu-5.5.2.tar.gz 461522 BLAKE2B 473c5a413ce497ff2f028873313ef43bb92d4c87d2f119318e36358af1bd60cbcf76ee6c3d387834d7949c9668c35937dad65f6ed5bde96de4a71a7e64a4dce1 SHA512 44dc34066cd68ae604768db8d133defe496e6aae2d6a12af3d45cfa47352120c2549fd528b6fcf64263f6f9d0b4d948b8bd7f14159af3cbf04ae78c7211a3ba3
 DIST kombu-5.5.3.tar.gz 461784 BLAKE2B 92943d69c61e7920018709f40c2d2656bfcd96ca36c673aca62e686a2b240c9535f6a5953581d51de20c0e6697473153b94c37ce2d0c146632183ed36eaac8ee SHA512 0cf17dec475b30cf30169f39d4819f205cc437cc5880de254c19bbf65b9320453ab244187f5b83715ef7e4b1861985097d4d1614c040b9268a018afef5938147
diff --git a/dev-python/kombu/kombu-5.5.2.ebuild b/dev-python/kombu/kombu-5.5.2.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index b38ed2b2e6723..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/kombu/kombu-5.5.2.ebuild
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@@ -1,96 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..13} )
-
-inherit distutils-r1 optfeature pypi
-
-DESCRIPTION="AMQP Messaging Framework for Python"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://github.com/celery/kombu/
-	https://pypi.org/project/kombu/
-"
-
-LICENSE="BSD"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86"
-IUSE="examples"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	>=dev-python/amqp-5.1.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	<dev-python/amqp-6.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/tzdata-2025.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/vine[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	test? (
-		app-arch/brotli[python,${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/boto3-1.22.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/hypothesis[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/msgpack-0.3.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/pycurl[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/pymongo-4.1.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/pytest-freezer[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/zstandard[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/pytz[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/pyyaml-3.10[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/redis-4.2.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/sqlalchemy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	)
-"
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest
-distutils_enable_sphinx docs \
-	dev-python/sphinx-celery
-
-src_prepare() {
-	distutils-r1_src_prepare
-
-	# unpin deps (notably tzdata, sigh)
-	> requirements/default.txt || die
-}
-
-python_test() {
-	local EPYTEST_DESELECT=(
-		# TODO
-		t/unit/transport/test_redis.py::test_Channel::test_connparams_health_check_interval_supported
-		t/unit/transport/test_redis.py::test_Channel::test_global_keyprefix_transaction
-		# bad filename assumption?
-		t/unit/asynchronous/aws/test_connection.py::test_AsyncHTTPSConnection::test_request_with_cert_path_https
-	)
-	local EPYTEST_IGNORE=(
-		# obsolete Pyro4
-		t/unit/transport/test_pyro.py
-		# unpackaged azure
-		t/unit/transport/test_azurestoragequeues.py
-		# unpackage google-cloud
-		t/unit/transport/test_gcpubsub.py
-	)
-
-	local -x PYTEST_DISABLE_PLUGIN_AUTOLOAD=1
-	epytest
-}
-
-python_install_all() {
-	if use examples; then
-		docompress -x "/usr/share/doc/${PF}/examples"
-		docinto examples
-		dodoc -r examples/.
-	fi
-	distutils-r1_python_install_all
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	optfeature "Amazon SQS backend" "dev-python/boto3 dev-python/pycurl"
-	optfeature "Etcd backend" dev-python/python-etcd
-	optfeature "MongoDB backend" dev-python/pymongo
-	optfeature "Redis backend" dev-python/redis
-	optfeature "sqlalchemy backend" dev-python/sqlalchemy
-	optfeature "yaml backend" dev-python/pyyaml
-	optfeature "MessagePack (de)serializer for Python" dev-python/msgpack
-	optfeature "brotli compression" "app-arch/brotli[python]"
-	optfeature "zstd compression" dev-python/zstandard
-}