diff --git a/dev-libs/md4c/Manifest b/dev-libs/md4c/Manifest
index c6a8ad476a2d4..f209a0f427138 100644
--- a/dev-libs/md4c/Manifest
+++ b/dev-libs/md4c/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST md4c-0.5.2.tar.gz 237973 BLAKE2B 7f3f80c1bcfa3040b4458876abc8eabbad387242fbdcde08b34d9a279da56e4c2264a591deb6ad3061c951b4ca547f896589682aa5c6b50febfc03b89c61be3e SHA512 30607ba39d6c59329f5a56a90cd816ff60b82ea752ac2b9df356d756529cfc49170019fae5df32fa94afc0e2a186c66eaf56fa6373d18436c06ace670675ba85
 DIST md4c-0.5.3.tar.gz 244633 BLAKE2B 45a2d591eb12ec28b6fcb10f52d0cb2a48ca52edc61e2f0e8751ecd651afb6823efdd2c949311801eefb049b54645c368ded71f4c1c295cdfa025fe9f7a34d5e SHA512 213d6b9fbad24b2bfb4fa0a8124cb4c20861da2cb57790882aa0e5ff8c18903450f1d9ffdbcc0547debd103137777059f27a526cd818294f698b5ffdbfe7fbcb
diff --git a/dev-libs/md4c/md4c-0.5.2.ebuild b/dev-libs/md4c/md4c-0.5.2.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index c5a22fe7a5685..0000000000000
--- a/dev-libs/md4c/md4c-0.5.2.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2022-2026 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..13} )
-
-inherit cmake python-any-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="C Markdown parser. Fast, SAX-like interface, CommonMark Compliant"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/mity/md4c"
-# TODO(NRK):
-# - useflag for static lib (?)
-
-if [[ ${PV} == 9999 ]]; then
-	inherit git-r3
-	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/mity/md4c.git"
-else
-	SRC_URI="https://github.com/mity/md4c/archive/refs/tags/release-${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-	S="${WORKDIR}/md4c-release-${PV}"
-	KEYWORDS="amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~loong ppc ppc64 ~riscv x86"
-fi
-
-LICENSE="MIT test? ( CC-BY-SA-4.0 )"
-SLOT="0"
-IUSE="+md2html test"
-REQUIRED_USE="test? ( md2html )"
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-BDEPEND="test? ( ${PYTHON_DEPS} )"
-
-pkg_setup() {
-	use test && python-any-r1_pkg_setup
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	mycmakeargs=(
-		-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON
-		-DBUILD_MD2HTML_EXECUTABLE=$(usex md2html)
-	)
-
-	cmake_src_configure
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	pushd "${BUILD_DIR}" || die
-	# Uses python internally
-	"${S}"/scripts/run-tests.sh || die
-	popd
-}