diff --git a/dev-python/pipdeptree/Manifest b/dev-python/pipdeptree/Manifest
index a7fcbcd4f365c..5972ef69d2e7e 100644
--- a/dev-python/pipdeptree/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/pipdeptree/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
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-DIST pipdeptree-2.26.0.tar.gz 40786 BLAKE2B 14299501aeff3de4119be0e0b030824750e091159ee88a1f3b0400ef835e66140db69bdefdf37058adaf75bb12b9765b4b70a3bd68056f0152b2eda26dbebb35 SHA512 cacefe7165c37e827592f0364cdf1246d0e7b1bd04c4723ce729c3bd200affae2e2b319bbbd9a8bdc220a43d0dde1a1c197642bc9119148bfcd2664ff11c725c
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diff --git a/dev-python/pipdeptree/pipdeptree-2.26.0.ebuild b/dev-python/pipdeptree/pipdeptree-2.26.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 6000c43fcbb67..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/pipdeptree/pipdeptree-2.26.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2022-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=hatchling
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( pypy3 pypy3_11 python3_{10..13} )
-
-inherit distutils-r1 pypi optfeature
-
-DESCRIPTION="Utility for displaying installed packages in a dependency tree"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://github.com/tox-dev/pipdeptree/
-	https://pypi.org/project/pipdeptree/
-"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm64 ~riscv"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	>=dev-python/packaging-23.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/pip-23.1.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	dev-python/hatch-vcs[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	test? (
-		dev-python/graphviz[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/pytest-console-scripts-1.4.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/pytest-mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/pytest-rerunfailures[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		<dev-python/virtualenv-21[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	)
-"
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest
-
-src_prepare() {
-	distutils-r1_src_prepare
-
-	# upstream lower bounds are meaningless
-	sed -i -e 's:>=[0-9.]*,\?::' pyproject.toml || die
-
-	find -name '*.py' -exec \
-		sed -i -e 's:pip[.]_vendor[.]::' {} + || die
-}
-
-python_test() {
-	local -x PYTEST_DISABLE_PLUGIN_AUTOLOAD=1
-	# tests can fail if other packages are being merged simultaneously
-	epytest -p pytest_mock -p console-scripts -p rerunfailures --reruns=5
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	optfeature \
-		"visualising the dependency graph with --graph-output" \
-		dev-python/graphviz
-}