diff --git a/dev-lua/luacov/Manifest b/dev-lua/luacov/Manifest
index 2c07fc2683c6f..77e589e01cbbc 100644
--- a/dev-lua/luacov/Manifest
+++ b/dev-lua/luacov/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST luacov-0.16.0.tar.gz 481029 BLAKE2B 7a5aee3b6b0f24636ea4bf8dddd5d3e1fc51c24f04e3db02b55737d193e9408e6e0fba7d99e95f184d47c5152c3eefc34ecbdc0ad2376903b6e228d666f4320d SHA512 a28112e7c0527246dc83edbb33d5dd072729ccfe8ade697830ba074426853e76edde3e0b58eb3f1dafba08749788f7058eaccb3f6d8f47caede41db11c4a779f
 DIST luacov-0.17.0.tar.gz 481574 BLAKE2B f72df094b7f90dc72f4e87f985a02e6d359e8aeef06235b7c381de91baa07c2c1b4685d8069ed6ac5b9a453eab1e5dab3af97194bf5cb47c01494b2d02c544bb SHA512 f7a6b997bf242cdb4ee4589492243641e156f6f443f47c66021babd449f517ea5d9c480cbeeedc5268d9921953043e0463d5db949bb702efcf644da27b1fd3eb
diff --git a/dev-lua/luacov/luacov-0.16.0.ebuild b/dev-lua/luacov/luacov-0.16.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 2e2ad21f6de02..0000000000000
--- a/dev-lua/luacov/luacov-0.16.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-LUA_COMPAT=( lua5-{1..4} luajit )
-
-inherit lua
-
-DESCRIPTION="A simple coverage analyzer for Lua scripts"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/keplerproject/luacov"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/keplerproject/${PN}/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86"
-IUSE="test"
-REQUIRED_USE="${LUA_REQUIRED_USE}"
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-RDEPEND="${LUA_DEPS}"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
-BDEPEND="
-	virtual/pkgconfig
-	test? (
-		dev-lua/busted[${LUA_USEDEP}]
-		dev-lua/lua_cliargs[${LUA_USEDEP}]
-		${RDEPEND}
-	)
-"
-
-HTML_DOCS=( "docs/." )
-
-lua_src_test() {
-	busted --lua=${ELUA} || die
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	lua_foreach_impl lua_src_test
-}
-
-lua_src_install() {
-	insinto "$(lua_get_lmod_dir)"
-	doins src/luacov.lua
-	doins -r src/luacov
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	lua_foreach_impl lua_src_install
-
-	dobin src/bin/luacov
-
-	einstalldocs
-}