diff --git a/dev-python/pyfits/Manifest b/dev-python/pyfits/Manifest
index 6346f5982dc84..520e2b6797c12 100644
--- a/dev-python/pyfits/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/pyfits/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST pyfits-2.4.0.tar.gz 284236 SHA256 40c21106b86ad01264780409ecb2c8102e80c3eaf2085224f370fc7b3b07ea22 SHA512 cdbcf8b4e178cde8723eb9386a52e59c9d66462479491d0b0ae1d436c91cc476748c00e837477acf9a46791cd4a7517ff649434c33c225ba8a396148e4485fa1 WHIRLPOOL 2c22a63bd180ad68bf3001d539c403147eecc01dc5537f9c1b0be582c79dd87297f91f33809dec6c9f5906396d409af5b4495ef0b68fe6cc03d816a51a286e50
 DIST pyfits-3.3.tar.gz 1646403 SHA256 becb6dcc7e443138b9d239db7a0e8ad939e6e047c2c9ca86e84d0672da425fa1 SHA512 561fe61050e61745054e0e4712c4413e129293b062d2020219b61d648d7093ce6952e1f26da955a1bf570f76ba7eddeb1805c99f679300b072ef6bacc2e4c90a WHIRLPOOL 9b4b5dd236713359a9441e4179486e4b56ec11b7fc25c3abb59d30a6267fe87496601778731ba7ff92c55243621aa58ca493821b83224fde41a79f18c21e485b
diff --git a/dev-python/pyfits/metadata.xml b/dev-python/pyfits/metadata.xml
index f413ce9b6b034..af0cd001939c4 100644
--- a/dev-python/pyfits/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/pyfits/metadata.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-<herd>sci-astronomy</herd>
-<herd>python</herd>
-<longdescription lang="en">
+  <herd>sci-astronomy</herd>
+  <herd>python</herd>
+  <longdescription lang="en">
   PyFITS provides an interface to FITS formatted files under the
   Python scripting language and PyRAF, the Python-based interface to
   IRAF.
 </longdescription>
-<upstream>
-  <remote-id type="pypi">pyfits</remote-id>
-</upstream>
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="pypi">pyfits</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
 </pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/pyfits/pyfits-2.4.0.ebuild b/dev-python/pyfits/pyfits-2.4.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 93014a9d736e7..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/pyfits/pyfits-2.4.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2014 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Id$
-
-EAPI="2"
-SUPPORT_PYTHON_ABIS="1"
-RESTRICT_PYTHON_ABIS="3.* 2.7-pypy-*"
-
-inherit distutils
-
-DESCRIPTION="Provides an interface to FITS formatted files under python"
-SRC_URI="http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
-HOMEPAGE="http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/pyfits"
-
-IUSE=""
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 x86 ~x86-fbsd"
-LICENSE="BSD"
-
-RDEPEND="dev-python/numpy
-	!<dev-python/astropy-0.3"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
-
-# current tests need data which are not in tar ball
-RESTRICT="test"
-
-src_test() {
-	testing() {
-		local t
-		for t in lib/tests/testPyfits*.py; do
-			PYTHONPATH="$(ls -d build-${PYTHON_ABI}/lib*)"  "$(PYTHON)" "${t}" || die "${t} failed with Python ${PYTHON_ABI}"
-		done
-	}
-	python_execute_function testing
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	distutils_src_install
-	local binary
-	for binary in "${ED}"/usr/bin/*; do
-		mv ${binary}{,-pyfits} || die
-	done
-}