diff --git a/dev-ruby/hiredis/Manifest b/dev-ruby/hiredis/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index fd179ef2c5bc7..0000000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/hiredis/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST hiredis-rb-0.6.3.tar.gz 19106 BLAKE2B 2892fd28bf7e7edfc3563a0c321fd781baeca9eb31a64dd559a6c828bb9c4fe37c995748782c5222db46b5b35a4d17f5b8b4d8e5306209a0e374ec7096d3cd4b SHA512 3e081d46aeb128789fa41fe9422186dd30e88c5a7a3c16dfcf1a92fe7faf99cced352ea39a885785fc12f0a974625be329d9ff2a5936a786febe8a2c81f5e139
diff --git a/dev-ruby/hiredis/files/hiredis-0.6.1-unvendor-hiredis.patch b/dev-ruby/hiredis/files/hiredis-0.6.1-unvendor-hiredis.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 885d6d15819e4..0000000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/hiredis/files/hiredis-0.6.1-unvendor-hiredis.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- a/ext/hiredis_ext/extconf.rb
-+++ b/ext/hiredis_ext/extconf.rb
-@@ -27,15 +27,8 @@
- end
- 
- if build_hiredis
--  # Make sure hiredis is built...
--  Dir.chdir(hiredis_dir) do
--    success = system("#{make_program} static")
--    raise "Building hiredis failed" if !success
--  end
--
--  # Statically link to hiredis (mkmf can't do this for us)
--  $CFLAGS << " -I#{hiredis_dir}"
--  $LDFLAGS << " #{hiredis_dir}/libhiredis.a"
-+  $CFLAGS << ' ' << `${PKG_CONFIG} hiredis --cflags-only-I`.chomp
-+  $LDFLAGS << ' -lhiredis'
- 
-   have_func("rb_thread_fd_select")
-   create_makefile('hiredis/ext/hiredis_ext')
diff --git a/dev-ruby/hiredis/hiredis-0.6.3-r1.ebuild b/dev-ruby/hiredis/hiredis-0.6.3-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 9c657f2774af0..0000000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/hiredis/hiredis-0.6.3-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-USE_RUBY="ruby26 ruby27 ruby30"
-
-MY_P="hiredis-rb-${PV}"
-
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_RECIPE_DOC="rdoc"
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTRADOC="CHANGELOG.md README.md"
-
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTENSIONS=(ext/hiredis_ext/extconf.rb)
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTENSION_LIBDIR="lib/hiredis/ext"
-
-inherit ruby-fakegem
-
-DESCRIPTION="Wrapper for hiredis (protocol serialization/deserialization and blocking I/O)"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/redis/hiredis-rb"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/redis/hiredis-rb/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${MY_P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="BSD"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64"
-IUSE=""
-
-RDEPEND+=" =dev-libs/hiredis-0.14*:="
-DEPEND+=" dev-libs/hiredis:= test? ( dev-ruby/test-unit:2 )"
-DEPEND+=" virtual/pkgconfig"
-
-RUBY_S="${MY_P}"
-
-PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}/${PN}-0.6.1-unvendor-hiredis.patch" )
-
-all_ruby_prepare() {
-	sed -i -e "s:/tmp/:${T}/:" test/connection_test.rb || die
-}
-
-each_ruby_test() {
-	${RUBY} -Ilib:. -e 'Dir["test/*_test.rb"].each{|f| require f}' || die
-}
diff --git a/dev-ruby/hiredis/metadata.xml b/dev-ruby/hiredis/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 45ca92fb57f11..0000000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/hiredis/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="project">
-    <email>ruby@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>Gentoo Ruby Project</name>
-  </maintainer>
-  <upstream>
-    <remote-id type="github">redis/hiredis-rb</remote-id>
-  </upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index 3f4609e0ee522..2dc61f4ca554e 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -727,12 +727,6 @@ dev-python/pytest-toolbox
 # Removal on 2023-01-24.  Bug #843344.
 app-portage/gander
 
-# Hans de Graaff <graaff@gentoo.org> (2022-12-25)
-# Last release in 2018. Poor quality C extension code. Package
-# consistently segfaults on it tests with the latest ruby versions.
-# No reverse dependencies. Removal in 30 days.
-dev-ruby/hiredis
-
 # Ionen Wolkens <ionen@gentoo.org> (2022-12-24)
 # Upstream dropped wxGTK support in >=games-emulation/pcsx2-1.7.3773,
 # and it now always requires Qt6. Masked given Qt6 is also masked in