diff --git a/dev-python/google-api-core/Manifest b/dev-python/google-api-core/Manifest
index 84c156f7fbff0..83558fb10463e 100644
--- a/dev-python/google-api-core/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/google-api-core/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST python-api-core-2.8.1.gh.tar.gz 164630 BLAKE2B 88db73f210ae5ee4aa2e7382ea34ef59fb51f88e196622556327c130057b74594884bbe21719bf12cc6ddc9975cf12ac71fa24ac4dfde4681b4742af57702b5d SHA512 f3bfa476562428246203592b53c22e8e52af167af10b1fa68afb51fe6e8ca8090e9231e4c297847d12c201ca791aa80153bee07f72939bc65920260ec50b3d38
 DIST python-api-core-2.8.2.gh.tar.gz 164586 BLAKE2B bd62b20d1be52f0a2227d1663ee37ce31d991e0773ed793a3999b70c74e03a28ac188cc331027def0055a5b80e93378d9ec5baa389c65e7d2f183b37233be5ac SHA512 5844339cee71103650c446f002dcb13a632086d96dec1ed04a0ad5e4d3a61cc2a8e048da3e6445a50a0c009b0d25729f02865d28484bfee2a3427c829537e350
diff --git a/dev-python/google-api-core/google-api-core-2.8.1.ebuild b/dev-python/google-api-core/google-api-core-2.8.1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 668d75698795a..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/google-api-core/google-api-core-2.8.1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2020-2022 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} )
-
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-MY_P=python-api-core-${PV}
-DESCRIPTION="Core Library for Google Client Libraries"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://github.com/googleapis/python-api-core/
-	https://pypi.org/project/google-api-core/
-	https://googleapis.dev/python/google-api-core/latest/index.html
-"
-SRC_URI="
-	https://github.com/googleapis/python-api-core/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz
-		-> ${MY_P}.gh.tar.gz
-"
-S=${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}
-
-LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm ~arm64 x86"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	>=dev-python/googleapis-common-protos-1.56.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/google-auth-1.25.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/protobuf-python-3.15.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/requests-2.18.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	<dev-python/requests-3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	!dev-python/namespace-google
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	test? (
-		dev-python/mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/proto-plus[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/rsa[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/pytest-asyncio[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	)
-"
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest
-
-EPYTEST_DESELECT=(
-	# failing due to missing grpcio-status
-	tests/asyncio/test_grpc_helpers_async.py::test_wrap_unary_errors
-	tests/asyncio/test_grpc_helpers_async.py::test_wrap_stream_errors_raised
-	tests/asyncio/test_grpc_helpers_async.py::test_wrap_stream_errors_read
-	tests/asyncio/test_grpc_helpers_async.py::test_wrap_stream_errors_aiter
-	tests/asyncio/test_grpc_helpers_async.py::test_wrap_stream_errors_write
-	tests/unit/test_grpc_helpers.py::test_wrap_unary_errors
-	tests/unit/test_grpc_helpers.py::test_wrap_stream_errors_invocation
-	tests/unit/test_grpc_helpers.py::test_wrap_stream_errors_iterator_initialization
-	tests/unit/test_grpc_helpers.py::test_wrap_stream_errors_during_iteration
-)
-
-python_compile() {
-	distutils-r1_python_compile
-	find "${BUILD_DIR}" -name '*.pth' -delete || die
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	rm -r google || die
-	distutils-r1_src_test
-}
-
-python_test() {
-	distutils_write_namespace google
-	epytest -p no:aiohttp -p no:trio tests
-}