diff --git a/dev-python/characteristic/Manifest b/dev-python/characteristic/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index 7137abeba052d..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/characteristic/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST characteristic-14.3.0.tar.gz 26993 BLAKE2B a24548953451da77e08678b8a204c0fc649ebff52026aafc6f80037a65f527c9a2244273420b1ce76e3ac75778f48c11bc2344296cbf34ff1e9a1e82356d52f1 SHA512 e13a86f453cd3688a74188005b82a661a9c73d9f0408d9afe9e0575e69ffe87a5327f51e2c16a9c0a653b738e7c014d5aa08e353835f0aca7897714b7ae56e83
diff --git a/dev-python/characteristic/characteristic-14.3.0-r4.ebuild b/dev-python/characteristic/characteristic-14.3.0-r4.ebuild
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index ec80db724d853..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/characteristic/characteristic-14.3.0-r4.ebuild
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@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{12..15} )
-
-inherit distutils-r1 pypi
-
-DESCRIPTION="Python attributes without the boilerplate"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://characteristic.readthedocs.io/
-	https://github.com/hynek/characteristic/
-	https://pypi.org/project/characteristic/
-"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc x86 ~x64-macos"
-
-EPYTEST_PLUGINS=()
-distutils_enable_tests pytest
-distutils_enable_sphinx docs
-
-python_prepare_all() {
-	sed -e 's|\[pytest\]|\[tool:pytest\]|' -i setup.cfg || die
-	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
-}
diff --git a/dev-python/characteristic/metadata.xml b/dev-python/characteristic/metadata.xml
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index ab016098e3994..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/characteristic/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="project">
-    <email>python@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>Python</name>
-  </maintainer>
-  <stabilize-allarches/>
-  <upstream>
-    <remote-id type="pypi">characteristic</remote-id>
-    <remote-id type="github">hynek/characteristic</remote-id>
-  </upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index 8dfc670a745c7..0392fa4924d9c 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -152,14 +152,6 @@ net-dns/bind-tools
 # Removal on 2026-08-15.  Bug #942397.
 app-arch/p7zip
 
-# Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> (2026-07-13)
-# dev-python/fields is unmaintained for 5 years.  Broken with pytest-9,
-# we already patch it for earlier pytest versions.  It is the only
-# revdep of dev-python/characteristic which was archived in 2023.
-# No revdeps left.
-# Removal on 2026-08-12.  Bug #978175.
-dev-python/characteristic
-
 # Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> (2026-07-07)
 # dev-embedded/ponyprog destabilisation mask, bug #978907
 =dev-embedded/ponyprog-3.1.4_p20250501-r0