diff --git a/dev-python/ansible-compat/Manifest b/dev-python/ansible-compat/Manifest
index 37a0960707983..2d8249ba8cff0 100644
--- a/dev-python/ansible-compat/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/ansible-compat/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST ansible_compat-25.5.0.tar.gz 88398 BLAKE2B 15141a3992c28be659ddbf84191b6856347ee7040bb3ec816bb9044aa7a085b558ba1de800adde24ac3c325e5ecc59a0538c23be093426740e24186f9f3f4dc7 SHA512 0120a4fa6155e875d308bd5a08eaae440bac8d2d7f521aede0f10df35b546ceca155ea3878faae995fd51870d784b4f49ecdcd7427353b406de0575660022f87
 DIST ansible_compat-25.6.0.tar.gz 88447 BLAKE2B 6431b22bc50d09f865d39046df55fd2a3fe03576cb640f0febc8f108b0ff7b190ef3014904e56f8cd50f37fd6db61da4cd71ab8d52619f8f4c42bac6344b95ed SHA512 3f60f0f6035c17eafa976d77cf811553ce018c3857ded05921a7f3378856cc1e8e5945a57080755cfa86deac52de67bd085834b334d597afc257b78c249f4ad8
diff --git a/dev-python/ansible-compat/ansible-compat-25.5.0.ebuild b/dev-python/ansible-compat/ansible-compat-25.5.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 5accac76a535f..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/ansible-compat/ansible-compat-25.5.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517="setuptools"
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..14} )
-
-inherit distutils-r1 pypi
-
-DESCRIPTION="Contains functions that facilitate working with various versions of Ansible"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://pypi.org/project/ansible-compat/
-	https://github.com/ansible/ansible-compat/
-"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm64 ~riscv"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	>=app-admin/ansible-core-2.18.6[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/jsonschema-4.23.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/packaging[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/pyyaml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/subprocess-tee-0.4.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	>=dev-python/setuptools-scm-7.0.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	test? (
-		dev-python/pytest-mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/pytest-plus[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	)
-"
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest
-
-python_test() {
-	local EPYTEST_DESELECT=(
-		# All these tests attempt to connect to galaxy.ansible.com
-		test/test_runtime.py::test_install_collection
-		test/test_runtime.py::test_install_collection_dest
-		test/test_runtime.py::test_prepare_environment_with_collections
-		test/test_runtime.py::test_prerun_reqs_v1
-		test/test_runtime.py::test_prerun_reqs_v2
-		test/test_runtime.py::test_require_collection_no_cache_dir
-		test/test_runtime.py::test_require_collection_wrong_version
-		test/test_runtime.py::test_require_collection
-		test/test_runtime.py::test_upgrade_collection
-		test/test_runtime_example.py::test_runtime
-		'test/test_runtime.py::test_load_plugins[modules]'
-		# pip, failing due to internets
-		test/test_runtime_scan_path.py::test_scan_sys_path
-		test/test_runtime_scan_path.py::test_ro_venv
-		# internets?
-		test/test_runtime.py::test_runtime_has_playbook
-		# TODO
-		test/test_prerun.py::test_get_cache_dir_relative
-	)
-
-	epytest -o addopts=
-}