diff --git a/dev-python/indexed_gzip/Manifest b/dev-python/indexed_gzip/Manifest
index e11a31c0eba22..865b6bdb499fd 100644
--- a/dev-python/indexed_gzip/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/indexed_gzip/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST indexed_gzip-1.6.13.tar.gz 102730 BLAKE2B 8ab5490c3c830121ce3104c624fe36cb0064f6265b5e5f9ebd6efb0402c33e206b4d97c35803fa10fdbc25a7ccac61f19b2fd9bfb205e07acee40737d6404659 SHA512 de8a606f712a0bddf618cedac12d2b5613e14aaaacc93d1930352101bdeaca8bd5126dd67df36d691f31bc27d553a61901934bbb0b2514e4360c6cd49e395c41
 DIST indexed_gzip-1.7.0.tar.gz 103849 BLAKE2B b33ef1f19e47c2dc12fd6e6fcc972badf4faaecaa5571aa44c765a6fafbec8e32fe2c4254d4e62722b6e744cfa27470ce517d08025b0492e8c032663b094344e SHA512 80f82699c6b64248f0609fb34e54e3838e642040820381cc64feb70b46721b69207686f9cccd55ebfb10dfcdee5fb5c1bf6404d1cfec07eb5a97767635c5dc4e
diff --git a/dev-python/indexed_gzip/indexed_gzip-1.6.13.ebuild b/dev-python/indexed_gzip/indexed_gzip-1.6.13.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 245f33e3925ec..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/indexed_gzip/indexed_gzip-1.6.13.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..11} )
-
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="Fast random access of gzip files in Python"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://pypi.org/project/indexed-gzip/
-	https://github.com/pauldmccarthy/indexed_gzip/
-"
-SRC_URI="
-	https://github.com/pauldmccarthy/indexed_gzip/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz
-		-> ${P}.tar.gz
-"
-
-LICENSE="ZLIB"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	sys-libs/zlib:=
-"
-DEPEND="
-	${RDEPEND}
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	dev-python/cython[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	test? (
-		dev-python/numpy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	)
-"
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest
-
-src_prepare() {
-	# strip custom "clean" command that doesn't support "-a"
-	# https://bugs.gentoo.org/838955
-	# TODO: this can be removed once distutils-r1 stops using clean
-	sed -i -e '/cmdclass/d' setup.py || die
-	distutils-r1_src_prepare
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	if use test; then
-		export INDEXED_GZIP_TESTING=1
-	fi
-	distutils-r1_src_compile
-}
-
-python_test() {
-	cd "${BUILD_DIR}/install$(python_get_sitedir)/indexed_gzip/tests" || die
-	epytest
-}