diff --git a/dev-java/commons-daemon/Manifest b/dev-java/commons-daemon/Manifest
index ff0d9929ece2..1966f9cfe8e9 100644
--- a/dev-java/commons-daemon/Manifest
+++ b/dev-java/commons-daemon/Manifest
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
-DIST commons-daemon-1.4.0-src.tar.gz 291610 BLAKE2B 3a13a00e209ad501a34ebef32a5e5bf9bd25de309434249d81a5ba96bad2e922a6cdae42624a7a8da64555838c9bb12cb54de4da59193f16d91f4869ff72a9eb SHA512 285f33ce36e2591f49b6067da16612ec1b49b23a8637d077618aefaae4452993dc2a31660665551ea761857390d940100e162e205fe7c0fad9c72374f2d15bb8
-DIST commons-daemon-1.4.0-src.tar.gz.asc 833 BLAKE2B ac97dd01c02b4a52e2c3cdf4047504cc10b7b4bbfe70f86d442e301af48520c51513f2dae37eaa08648ac9a29e6212abb153b2e36cf85baf03245d8e528166b8 SHA512 8144068c97e76ca358850455d7b867ae106f04083223b43229cc1e05f21c99150c6734174e1b77e89eee93f94ec198831df57f3f53217f3416584509ca289fe1
 DIST commons-daemon-1.4.1-src.tar.gz 292677 BLAKE2B 04fad8602d4a65d9d13f2e96efb6ec20facec6c1c7d891ee70098c4da926a50aa101425de684474f426e9c27f2cb0a6834501b3aa9afc63e58747d2146428b79 SHA512 948d176922e3d7d0843e9e8d6bdba653b367b3d4d87dc96e600bfe6a8721c1d813584116773e4a32740424e276b93c1808e0b644ee79e21b23b23d1b08b5569a
 DIST commons-daemon-1.4.1-src.tar.gz.asc 833 BLAKE2B 1e87505fb8e7dea9c104a076eddb6d40ce475a304c3acc1da597a0df325c0a08eff2ca9bc182afb90add2d6a141be89210c4a2ff1fcb4f6c514716354aaf8162 SHA512 1c96a307dce04554db68adae65eacaea561b662aaf4c9b9e275d53161220687dd65ccf0fbab725de777d3ba67b1c16c2e639d55c4b61ae333ad1bd275b7ba013
diff --git a/dev-java/commons-daemon/commons-daemon-1.4.0.ebuild b/dev-java/commons-daemon/commons-daemon-1.4.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index d1c5b8fe6a5d..000000000000
--- a/dev-java/commons-daemon/commons-daemon-1.4.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-# No tests #839681
-JAVA_PKG_IUSE="doc source"
-MAVEN_ID="commons-daemon:commons-daemon:${PV}"
-
-inherit java-pkg-2 java-pkg-simple toolchain-funcs verify-sig
-
-DESCRIPTION="Tools to allow Java programs to run as UNIX daemons"
-HOMEPAGE="https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/"
-SRC_URI="mirror://apache/commons/daemon/source/${P}-src.tar.gz
-	verify-sig? ( https://downloads.apache.org/commons/daemon/source/${P}-src.tar.gz.asc )"
-S="${WORKDIR}/${P}-src"
-
-LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ppc64"
-
-VERIFY_SIG_OPENPGP_KEY_PATH="/usr/share/openpgp-keys/commons.apache.org.asc"
-BDEPEND="verify-sig? ( sec-keys/openpgp-keys-apache-commons )"
-DEPEND=">=virtual/jdk-11:*"	# module-info
-RDEPEND=">=virtual/jre-1.8:*"
-
-DOCS=( {CONTRIBUTING,README}.md {HOWTO-RELEASE,NOTICE,RELEASE-NOTES}.txt )
-HTML_DOCS=( PROPOSAL.html )
-PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}/commons-daemon-1.3.1-Make.patch" )
-
-JAVA_ENCODING="iso-8859-1"
-JAVA_SRC_DIR="src/main/java"
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default #780585
-	java-pkg-2_src_prepare
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	JAVA_JAR_FILENAME="org.apache.${PN}.jar"
-	java-pkg-simple_src_compile	# creates a legacy jar file without module-info
-
-	jdeps --generate-module-info \
-		src/main/java \
-		--multi-release 9 \
-		"${JAVA_JAR_FILENAME}" || die
-
-	JAVA_JAR_FILENAME="${PN}.jar"
-	java-pkg-simple_src_compile	# creates the final jar file including module-info
-
-	pushd src/native/unix || die
-		./configure
-		emake AR="$(tc-getAR)"
-	popd
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	java-pkg-simple_src_install
-	dobin src/native/unix/jsvc
-}