diff --git a/net-analyzer/chaosreader/Manifest b/net-analyzer/chaosreader/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index 2261157cb9cf8..0000000000000
--- a/net-analyzer/chaosreader/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST chaosreader-0.96.tar.gz 99124 BLAKE2B 04e9dd45543033bb3d15264fcc9168b7e2cec6f304f10142df36c363e841afc91659d7956bbb60b05cc6ab4e8fd519adaf9a2e69be2efc129fd2f38ca0d99f1f SHA512 46ba4a66152403e150e652bf6fa08af98cd3d709ea2cb834a32411ca5dde5f94a7e972404626787e604c1449c29ab5f335673b305ab83856c0dfff7cbf2f4de4
diff --git a/net-analyzer/chaosreader/chaosreader-0.96.ebuild b/net-analyzer/chaosreader/chaosreader-0.96.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 89ea00a4c6d28..0000000000000
--- a/net-analyzer/chaosreader/chaosreader-0.96.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-
-DESCRIPTION="Trace TCP/UDP/... sessions and fetch application data"
-HOMEPAGE="http://chaosreader.sourceforge.net
- https://github.com/brendangregg/Chaosreader"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/brendangregg/${PN}/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-SLOT="0"
-
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ~ppc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
-LICENSE="GPL-2+"
-
-DEPEND=">=dev-lang/perl-5.8.0"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-
-S="${WORKDIR}/Chaosreader-${PV}"
-
-PATCHES=(
- "${FILESDIR}"/chaosreader-0.96-zombies.patch
- "${FILESDIR}"/chaosreader-0.96-chunkcheck.patch
- "${FILESDIR}"/chaosreader-0.96-divisionbyzero.patch
-)
-
-src_install() {
- dobin ${PN}
-}
diff --git a/net-analyzer/chaosreader/files/chaosreader-0.96-chunkcheck.patch b/net-analyzer/chaosreader/files/chaosreader-0.96-chunkcheck.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6a394d4b308ec..0000000000000
--- a/net-analyzer/chaosreader/files/chaosreader-0.96-chunkcheck.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
---- a/chaosreader 2011-11-10 19:17:50.000000000 +0100
-+++ b/chaosreader 2012-03-09 18:15:21.096105305 +0100
-@@ -5350,6 +5353,24 @@
- next if length($http_data) < 8;
- $partnum++;
- $parttext = sprintf("%02d",$partnum);
-+
-+ ## from https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2019799&group_id=107384&atid=647491
-+ ### Chunk Check
-+ if ( $http_header =~ /Transfer-Encoding: chunked/ ) {
-+ my $new_http_data="";
-+ my $chunksize=-1;
-+ my $pos=0;
-+ until ($chunksize==0) {
-+ my $eolpos=index($http_data,"\r\n",$pos);
-+ $chunksize=hex(substr($http_data,$pos,$eolpos - $pos));
-+ $pos=($eolpos+2);
-+ if ($chunksize > 0) {
-+ $new_http_data.=substr($http_data,$pos,$chunksize);
-+ }
-+ $pos+=($chunksize+2);
-+ }
-+ $http_data=$new_http_data;
-+ }
-
- ### Part - Checks
- $http_type = &File_Type($http_data);
diff --git a/net-analyzer/chaosreader/files/chaosreader-0.96-divisionbyzero.patch b/net-analyzer/chaosreader/files/chaosreader-0.96-divisionbyzero.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 584918513062d..0000000000000
--- a/net-analyzer/chaosreader/files/chaosreader-0.96-divisionbyzero.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- a/chaosreader 2014-06-15 21:30:11.000000000 +0200
-+++ b/chaosreader 2019-02-21 18:26:00.671756895 +0100
-@@ -4275,7 +4275,14 @@
- print REPLAY "ms($timediff1);\n";
- }
- $duration = 0.01 if $duration == 0; # avoid divide by 0,
-- $speed = sprintf("%.2f",$bytes / (1024 * $duration));
-+ + # avoid division by zero
-+ # from https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2210488&group_id=107384&atid=647489
-+ if ( $duration > 0 ) {
-+ $speed = sprintf("%.2f",$bytes / (1024 * $duration));
-+ }
-+ else {
-+ $speed = "unknown";
-+ }
- print REPLAY "print \"\n\n" .
- "Summary: $duration2 seconds, $bytes bytes, $speed Kb/sec\\n\";";
- close REPLAY;
diff --git a/net-analyzer/chaosreader/files/chaosreader-0.96-zombies.patch b/net-analyzer/chaosreader/files/chaosreader-0.96-zombies.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 40fa6063adf3d..0000000000000
--- a/net-analyzer/chaosreader/files/chaosreader-0.96-zombies.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- a/chaosreader 2006-12-24 15:12:23.000000000 +0100
-+++ b/chaosreader 2006-12-24 15:11:56.000000000 +0100
-@@ -396,6 +395,8 @@ if ($Arg{normal}) {
-
- elsif ($Arg{standalone}) {
-
-+ $SIG{CHLD} = "IGNORE";
-+
- ############################################################
- # --- STANDALONE - Create Packet Logs and Process them ---
- #
diff --git a/net-analyzer/chaosreader/metadata.xml b/net-analyzer/chaosreader/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 583f626df4a9e..0000000000000
--- a/net-analyzer/chaosreader/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-
-
-
-
-
- chaosreader
- brendangregg/chaosreader
-
-
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index 9b7950d5ca0f8..7e1f69c17774e 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -794,11 +794,6 @@ dev-games/wfmath
# release over 3 years ago, no revdeps. Removal on 2023-02-01.
dev-cpp/pngpp
-# Jonas Stein (2023-01-01)
-# Package is broken and unusable, no activity upstream.
-# Removal after 2023-02-01. Bug #722568.
-net-analyzer/chaosreader
-
# Volkmar W. Pogatzki (2022-12-29)
# Upstream is dead, last activity in Nov 2017. Does not
# work with newer log4j, bug #857663. Use net-p2p/biglybt