diff --git a/dev-java/commons-chain/Manifest b/dev-java/commons-chain/Manifest
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index 1ba559b40c698..0000000000000
--- a/dev-java/commons-chain/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST commons-chain-1.2-src.zip 316195 BLAKE2B 4f4b6221b5358634649cced0d558cfde4e7df133bda1b3edcb1264273c879ece2332310b65f0860d07b689d371397288db0b1aae7ab76966ce7a85664f10b248 SHA512 454cc3c00deb78f0c07e01ea5e2be9ea1210b7a0162e2490e5aba0df0788e1661aed88e4c4ac83e9f2046f62bdf063ecb7af7d3d49b7e87056aded1d5c1dad4b
diff --git a/dev-java/commons-chain/commons-chain-1.2.ebuild b/dev-java/commons-chain/commons-chain-1.2.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 18ee9cf7307ad..0000000000000
--- a/dev-java/commons-chain/commons-chain-1.2.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,65 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=5
-JAVA_PKG_IUSE="doc source"
-
-inherit java-pkg-2 java-ant-2
-
-MY_P="${P}-src"
-DESCRIPTION="API exposing the Chain of Responsability design pattern - by the ASF"
-HOMEPAGE="http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-chain/"
-SRC_URI="mirror://apache/commons/chain/source/${MY_P}.zip"
-
-LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 x86"
-
-# Too many missing imports from javax.servlet.* which causes the
-# "compile-tests" target to fail compiling.
-# I gave up on them after wasting nearly half a day.
-RESTRICT="test"
-
-IUSE=""
-
-CDEPEND="dev-java/commons-digester:0
-	dev-java/mojarra:2.2
-	dev-java/portletapi:2.0
-	dev-java/commons-logging:0
-	java-virtuals/servlet-api:3.0"
-
-RDEPEND=">=virtual/jre-1.6
-	${CDEPEND}"
-
-DEPEND=">=virtual/jdk-1.6
-	${CDEPEND}"
-
-S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
-
-JAVA_ANT_REWRITE_CLASSPATH="true"
-EANT_GENTOO_CLASSPATH="
-	commons-logging
-	commons-digester
-	portletapi-2.0
-	mojarra-2.2
-	servlet-api-3.0
-"
-
-EANT_BUILD_TARGET="package"
-EANT_BUILD_XML="build.xml"
-
-java_prepare() {
-	cp "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-build.xml build.xml
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	java-pkg_newjar "${S}"/target/${P}.jar commons-chain.jar
-
-	if use doc; then
-		java-pkg_dohtml -r "${S}"/target/site/apidocs/
-	fi
-
-	if use source; then
-		java-pkg_dosrc "${S}"/src/*
-	fi
-}
diff --git a/dev-java/commons-chain/files/commons-chain-1.2-build.xml b/dev-java/commons-chain/files/commons-chain-1.2-build.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1ef9f3813c7c7..0000000000000
--- a/dev-java/commons-chain/files/commons-chain-1.2-build.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,215 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-
-<project name="commons-chain-1.2" default="package" basedir=".">
-
-  <!-- ====================================================================== -->
-  <!-- Build environment properties                                           -->
-  <!-- ====================================================================== -->
-
-  <property file="${user.home}/.m2/maven.properties"/>
-  <property file="maven-build.properties"/>
-
-  <property name="maven.build.finalName" value="commons-chain-1.2"/>
-  <property name="maven.build.dir" value="target"/>
-  <property name="maven.build.outputDir" value="${maven.build.dir}/classes"/>
-  <property name="maven.build.srcDir.0" value="src/java"/>
-  <property name="maven.build.resourceDir.0" value="."/>
-  <property name="maven.build.testOutputDir" value="${maven.build.dir}/test-classes"/>
-  <property name="maven.build.testDir.0" value="src/test"/>
-  <property name="maven.build.testResourceDir.0" value="src/test"/>
-  <property name="maven.test.reports" value="${maven.build.dir}/test-reports"/>
-  <property name="maven.reporting.outputDirectory" value="${maven.build.dir}/site"/>
-
-  <property name="maven.repo.local" value="${user.home}/.m2/repository"/>
-  <property name="maven.settings.offline" value="false"/>
-  <property name="maven.settings.interactiveMode" value="true"/>
-
-  <!-- ====================================================================== -->
-  <!-- Defining classpaths                                                    -->
-  <!-- ====================================================================== -->
-
-  <path id="build.classpath">
-  </path>
-  <path id="build.test.classpath">
-  </path>
-
-  <!-- ====================================================================== -->
-  <!-- Cleaning up target                                                     -->
-  <!-- ====================================================================== -->
-
-  <target name="clean" description="Clean the output directory">
-    <delete dir="${maven.build.dir}"/>
-  </target>
-
-  <!-- ====================================================================== -->
-  <!-- Compilation target                                                     -->
-  <!-- ====================================================================== -->
-
-  <target name="compile" description="Compile the code">
-    <mkdir dir="${maven.build.outputDir}"/>
-    <javac destdir="${maven.build.outputDir}" 
-           encoding="iso-8859-1" 
-           nowarn="false" 
-           debug="true" 
-           optimize="false" 
-           deprecation="true" 
-           target="1.6" 
-           verbose="false" 
-           fork="false" 
-           source="1.6">
-      <src>
-        <pathelement location="${maven.build.srcDir.0}"/>
-      </src>
-      <classpath refid="build.classpath"/>
-    </javac>
-    <mkdir dir="${maven.build.outputDir}/META-INF"/>
-    <copy todir="${maven.build.outputDir}/META-INF">
-      <fileset dir="${maven.build.resourceDir.0}">
-        <include name="NOTICE.txt"/>
-        <include name="LICENSE.txt"/>
-      </fileset>
-    </copy>
-  </target>
-
-  <!-- ====================================================================== -->
-  <!-- Test-compilation target                                                -->
-  <!-- ====================================================================== -->
-
-  <target name="compile-tests" 
-          depends="compile" 
-          description="Compile the test code" 
-          unless="maven.test.skip">
-    <mkdir dir="${maven.build.testOutputDir}"/>
-    <javac destdir="${maven.build.testOutputDir}" 
-           encoding="iso-8859-1" 
-           nowarn="false" 
-           debug="true" 
-           optimize="false" 
-           deprecation="true" 
-           target="1.6" 
-           verbose="false" 
-           fork="false" 
-           source="1.6">
-      <src>
-        <pathelement location="${maven.build.testDir.0}"/>
-      </src>
-      <classpath>
-        <path refid="build.test.classpath"/>
-        <pathelement location="${maven.build.outputDir}"/>
-      </classpath>
-    </javac>
-    <copy todir="${maven.build.testOutputDir}">
-      <fileset dir="${maven.build.testResourceDir.0}">
-        <include name="**/*.xml"/>
-      </fileset>
-    </copy>
-  </target>
-
-  <!-- ====================================================================== -->
-  <!-- Run all tests                                                          -->
-  <!-- ====================================================================== -->
-
-  <target name="test" 
-          depends="compile-tests"
-          unless="junit.skipped" 
-          description="Run the test cases">
-    <mkdir dir="${maven.test.reports}"/>
-    <junit printSummary="yes" haltonerror="true" haltonfailure="true" fork="true" dir=".">
-      <sysproperty key="basedir" value="."/>
-      <formatter type="xml"/>
-      <formatter type="plain" usefile="false"/>
-      <classpath>
-        <path refid="build.test.classpath"/>
-        <pathelement location="${maven.build.outputDir}"/>
-        <pathelement location="${maven.build.testOutputDir}"/>
-      </classpath>
-      <batchtest todir="${maven.test.reports}" unless="test">
-        <fileset dir="${maven.build.testDir.0}">
-          <include name="**/Test*.java"/>
-          <include name="**/*Test.java"/>
-          <include name="**/*TestCase.java"/>
-          <exclude name="**/*Abstract*Test.java"/>
-        </fileset>
-      </batchtest>
-      <batchtest todir="${maven.test.reports}" if="test">
-        <fileset dir="${maven.build.testDir.0}">
-          <include name="**/${test}.java"/>
-          <exclude name="**/*Abstract*Test.java"/>
-        </fileset>
-      </batchtest>
-    </junit>
-  </target>
-
-  <target name="test-junit-present">
-    <available classname="junit.framework.Test" property="junit.present" classpathref="build.test.classpath"/>
-  </target>
-
-  <target name="test-junit-status" 
-          depends="test-junit-present">
-    <condition property="junit.missing">
-      <and>
-        <isfalse value="${junit.present}"/>
-        <isfalse value="${maven.test.skip}"/>
-      </and>
-    </condition>
-    <condition property="junit.skipped">
-      <or>
-        <isfalse value="${junit.present}"/>
-        <istrue value="${maven.test.skip}"/>
-      </or>
-    </condition>
-  </target>
-
-  <!-- ====================================================================== -->
-  <!-- Javadoc target                                                         -->
-  <!-- ====================================================================== -->
-
-  <target name="javadoc" description="Generates the Javadoc of the application">
-    <javadoc sourcepath="${maven.build.srcDir.0}" 
-             packagenames="*" 
-             destdir="${maven.reporting.outputDirectory}/apidocs" 
-             access="protected" 
-             old="false" 
-             verbose="false" 
-             encoding="iso-8859-1" 
-             version="true" 
-             use="true" 
-             author="true" 
-             splitindex="false" 
-             nodeprecated="false" 
-             nodeprecatedlist="false" 
-             notree="false" 
-             noindex="false" 
-             nohelp="false" 
-             nonavbar="false" 
-             serialwarn="false" 
-             charset="ISO-8859-1" 
-             source="1.3" 
-             linksource="true" 
-			 failonerror="false"
-             breakiterator="false">
-      <link href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/"/>
-      <link href="http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/api/"/>
-      <link href="http://commons.apache.org/digester/apidocs/"/>
-    </javadoc>
-  </target>
-
-  <!-- ====================================================================== -->
-  <!-- Package target                                                         -->
-  <!-- ====================================================================== -->
-
-  <target name="package" depends="compile" description="Package the application">
-    <jar jarfile="${maven.build.dir}/${maven.build.finalName}.jar" 
-         compress="true" 
-         index="false" 
-         basedir="${maven.build.outputDir}" 
-         excludes="**/package.html"/>
-  </target>
-
-  <!-- ====================================================================== -->
-  <!-- A dummy target for the package named after the type it creates         -->
-  <!-- ====================================================================== -->
-
-  <target name="jar" depends="package" description="Builds the jar for the application"/>
-
-</project>
diff --git a/dev-java/commons-chain/metadata.xml b/dev-java/commons-chain/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 4221e170cbc00..0000000000000
--- a/dev-java/commons-chain/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="project">
-		<email>java@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Java</name>
-	</maintainer>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index a949201289a94..dbcdd2ad2e614 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -384,7 +384,6 @@ dev-java/backport-util-concurrent
 dev-java/beansbinding
 dev-java/blowfishj
 dev-java/btf
-dev-java/commons-chain
 
 # Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@gentoo.org> (2021-10-22)
 # Upstream support discontinued, see https://bw.org/2019/03/19/bw-whois/