diff --git a/app-editors/zile/zile-2.6.2-r2.ebuild b/app-editors/zile/zile-2.6.2-r2.ebuild
index 75aaf68679419..083a925bf551b 100644
--- a/app-editors/zile/zile-2.6.2-r2.ebuild
+++ b/app-editors/zile/zile-2.6.2-r2.ebuild
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
-VALA_MIN_API_VERSION=0.52
 
 inherit toolchain-funcs vala