diff --git a/dev-java/xom/Manifest b/dev-java/xom/Manifest
index 8623f92eb3130..c1a869f6433bc 100644
--- a/dev-java/xom/Manifest
+++ b/dev-java/xom/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST xom-1.3.7-src.tar.gz 5898676 BLAKE2B 963190849bcdb1b4e786a099dd2abd2ed8f17e5b486bce9df48d9f6ddab4f381c3c5c7d70388f9d74710547ff7a62bbd6a2eb9c2a6d6ff8cd06156b83e98aba0 SHA512 9b574f23c9394f5b54dc9b33e41e89638d041337c08336f44f968a55a1633dcc90ff1b520f7ad57cdbe68a1f81e221ac7e83336eb472876ab43939d9ce940262
 DIST xom-1.3.8-src.tar.gz 5898196 BLAKE2B 59d2af50b1f662419cf9e860c9946b250b3a803b3e3190483bef5d9b77a51272f1f2b11b10da1d72daff5f9a38dfdd3c3c13d15de7b1d9e19372895316df0033 SHA512 4a9b328a51fc24a447271e52b2c084178e2a5091b6e37a6dcb05cfa7c1aeacc426bae896a84dd9a7adc425f77785c12f0ee23805863f096232ad6ca4a2335b44
diff --git a/dev-java/xom/xom-1.3.7.ebuild b/dev-java/xom/xom-1.3.7.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 5289b1b22b800..0000000000000
--- a/dev-java/xom/xom-1.3.7.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-
-JAVA_PKG_IUSE="doc source test"
-JAVA_TESTING_FRAMEWORKS="junit"
-
-inherit java-pkg-2 java-pkg-simple
-
-DESCRIPTION="XML Object Model"
-HOMEPAGE="https://xom.nu"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/elharo/${PN}/releases/download/v${PV}/${P}-src.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="LGPL-2"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm arm64 ppc64 x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~sparc-solaris ~x86-solaris"
-
-CDEPEND="
-	dev-java/jaxen:1.2
-	dev-java/xerces:2"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	${CDEPEND}
-	>=virtual/jre-1.8:*"
-
-DEPEND="
-	${CDEPEND}
-	dev-java/junit:0
-	>=virtual/jdk-1.8:*"
-
-JAVA_GENTOO_CLASSPATH="jaxen-1.2,xerces-2"
-JAVA_SRC_DIR="src/main/java"
-JAVA_RESOURCE_DIRS="src/main/resources"
-
-JAVA_TEST_GENTOO_CLASSPATH="junit"
-JAVA_TEST_SRC_DIR="src/test/java"
-
-PATCHES=(
-	"${FILESDIR}/${P}-disable-invalid-test.patch"
-)
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-
-	java-pkg_clean
-
-	# removing directories based on build.xml
-	rm -rv XOM/src/nu/xom/benchmarks/ || die
-	rm -rv XOM/src/nu/xom/integrationtests/ || die
-	rm -rv XOM/src/nu/xom/samples/ || die
-	rm -rv XOM/src/nu/xom/tools/ || die
-
-	# reorganize the code and resources so that it goes well with java-pkg-simple
-	mkdir -pv ${JAVA_SRC_DIR} ${JAVA_RESOURCE_DIRS} ${JAVA_TEST_SRC_DIR}/nu/xom || die
-	mv -v XOM/src/nu/xom/tests ${JAVA_TEST_SRC_DIR}/nu/xom/ || die
-	mv -v XOM/data . || die
-	pushd XOM/src || die
-	for file in $(find -type f -name "*.java"); do
-		cp --parents -R ${file} "${WORKDIR}/${JAVA_SRC_DIR}" || die
-	done
-	for file in $(find -type f ! -name "*.java"); do
-		cp --parents -R ${file} "${WORKDIR}/${JAVA_RESOURCE_DIRS}" || die
-	done
-	popd
-}