diff --git a/dev-python/micawber/Manifest b/dev-python/micawber/Manifest
index 2f644e17ff405..3feb48471a8ec 100644
--- a/dev-python/micawber/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/micawber/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST micawber-0.5.5.gh.tar.gz 35109 BLAKE2B 3d60f8b27246a82001437481c5feec638a9673cf9b5427f1c69ca3f84e17935eba4e88078ab7d2818eaa1d9d98b22946a1ab5c3ff0f6261bd44a2150c663a616 SHA512 93949a813d99e5b46e8e06b4e9f501fa74092bc64ebab71572734334cd9889c2d4546a086775005b7f99d18df56222623ae7761cb6ba2f42c7f78c10a86e2d26
 DIST micawber-0.5.6.gh.tar.gz 35179 BLAKE2B 50bc9b5044c5e89af3ec31321eb14830a0ca9dda25d6f88c371556d8a2b36f5a7ee868b540da93f65dc6365ed4d278eaf5d6f9c10fb69a19823b40e536ab1eb3 SHA512 1a0577048922c6b329b22bb47718408f470af306fd607abd5a88eff59363e7d8402f544580c723e94563502c0c2e000dc349dc3253e0866c715a1cc6a6800699
diff --git a/dev-python/micawber/micawber-0.5.5.ebuild b/dev-python/micawber/micawber-0.5.5.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 0105f7b273fe1..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/micawber/micawber-0.5.5.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 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
-
-DESCRIPTION="A small library for extracting rich content from urls"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://github.com/coleifer/micawber/
-	https://pypi.org/project/micawber/
-"
-SRC_URI="
-	https://github.com/coleifer/micawber/archive/${PV}.tar.gz
-		-> ${P}.gh.tar.gz
-"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 arm64 ~riscv"
-IUSE="test"
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-BDEPEND="
-	test? (
-		$(python_gen_impl_dep sqlite)
-		dev-python/beautifulsoup4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/django[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	)
-"
-
-python_test() {
-	"${EPYTHON}" runtests.py || die "Tests failed with ${EPYTHON}"
-}