diff --git a/app-misc/abook/abook-0.6.1.ebuild b/app-misc/abook/abook-0.6.1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 5833107d67631..0000000000000
--- a/app-misc/abook/abook-0.6.1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=5
-inherit autotools
-
-MY_P="${P/_/}"
-DESCRIPTION="Abook is a text-based addressbook program designed to use with mutt mail client"
-HOMEPAGE="http://abook.sourceforge.net/"
-SRC_URI="http://abook.sourceforge.net/devel/${MY_P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86"
-IUSE="nls"
-
-RDEPEND="sys-libs/ncurses
-	sys-libs/readline
-	dev-libs/libvformat
-	nls? ( virtual/libintl )"
-DEPEND="nls? ( sys-devel/gettext )"
-
-S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
-
-src_prepare() {
-	# TODO: do the right thing and find out whats wrong with Makefile.in
-	eautoreconf
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	econf \
-		--with-curses \
-		--with-readline \
-		--enable-vformat \
-		$(use_enable nls)
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	# bug 570428
-	emake CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -std=gnu89"
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install
-	dodoc BUGS ChangeLog FAQ README TODO sample.abookrc
-}
diff --git a/app-misc/abook/metadata.xml b/app-misc/abook/metadata.xml
index 164d4e3717bce..dd19a67bf751d 100644
--- a/app-misc/abook/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-misc/abook/metadata.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 	<maintainer type="person">
 		<email>cedk@gentoo.org</email>
 	</maintainer>
-	<longdescription>abook is a text-based addressbook program for the mutt mail client.</longdescription>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="sourceforge">abook</remote-id>
 	</upstream>