diff --git a/app-text/paper-clip/files/paper-clip-5.5.1-document-vala-return.patch b/app-text/paper-clip/files/paper-clip-5.5.1-document-vala-return.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 15b579a4d93f..000000000000
--- a/app-text/paper-clip/files/paper-clip-5.5.1-document-vala-return.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-From 33a64d825b87c842b9ecc243297c7a0248db7180 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: =?UTF-8?q?Diego=20Iv=C3=A1n=20M=2EE?= <diegoivan.mae@gmail.com>
-Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2024 18:08:36 -0600
-Subject: [PATCH] vala: Solve Vala errors at C compile time
-
----
- src/Document.vala | 4 +++-
- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/src/Document.vala b/src/Document.vala
-index 872309f..e52e1a7 100644
---- a/src/Document.vala
-+++ b/src/Document.vala
-@@ -451,7 +451,9 @@ public class PaperClip.Document : Object {
-                                                    "copies");
- 
-         int res = DirUtils.create_with_parents (destination_path, 0777);
--        return_if_fail (res > -1);
-+        if (res < 0) {
-+            throw new IOError.FAILED (@"Could not create $destination_path");
-+        }
- 
-         string destination_file = Path.build_filename (destination_path,
-                                                        "%s".printf (original_file.get_basename ()));