diff --git a/dev-java/jol-core/Manifest b/dev-java/jol-core/Manifest
index 4307276fc4a70..d26bd8a2d8879 100644
--- a/dev-java/jol-core/Manifest
+++ b/dev-java/jol-core/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST jol-0.16.tar.gz 120373 BLAKE2B 06301e1802c89c76038aec2247cbb45d96cc74afa9f099500f8e5f33b919117e85744bc2b8214b6c9e765a2579a43f256eecc2ba8537e76c81aceaa8694f49dc SHA512 d9abf579d0230f2b6d0e0a33ee11c9599b4f36d945239dd8670bbd00591137c2229e5251b32dd5405fd4b08e0070af70e6b04e4ea4be0c28c4d5bc94874858de
 DIST jol-0.17.tar.gz 121365 BLAKE2B 3bacae2bba0f76799b0d9700201d908e1e04bad5276139b9661e969a0818e526eae1d6a0b0adf38501ef974dd18016710365f9fd578ecf4116896bb1dd44b51a SHA512 ea9424b43779a535a5463bdb11fc760f5fd5ee99ec9fb2706ddff48136739b488d9cebb690cd1d6fd30e5b4e66a2aa024bc878ffad0e56807aa499000d96b239
diff --git a/dev-java/jol-core/jol-core-0.16-r1.ebuild b/dev-java/jol-core/jol-core-0.16-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index eb361ed8b0851..0000000000000
--- a/dev-java/jol-core/jol-core-0.16-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2022-2024 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-JAVA_PKG_IUSE="doc source test"
-MAVEN_ID="org.openjdk.jol:jol-core:0.16"
-JAVA_TESTING_FRAMEWORKS="junit-4"
-
-inherit java-pkg-2 java-pkg-simple
-
-MY_PN="${PN%-core}"
-MY_P="${MY_PN}-${PV}"
-
-DESCRIPTION="Java Object Layout: Core"
-HOMEPAGE="https://openjdk.org/projects/code-tools/jol/"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/openjdk/jol/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> jol-${PV}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2-with-classpath-exception"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 arm64 ppc64"
-
-DEPEND="
-	>=virtual/jdk-1.8:*
-	test? (
-		dev-java/asm:9
-	)
-"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	>=virtual/jre-1.8:*
-"
-
-S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
-
-JAVA_SRC_DIR="${PN}/src/main/java"
-JAVA_RESOURCE_DIRS="${PN}/src/main/resources"
-
-JAVA_TEST_GENTOO_CLASSPATH="junit-4,asm-9"
-JAVA_TEST_SRC_DIR="${PN}/src/test/java"