diff --git a/dev-java/commons-io/Manifest b/dev-java/commons-io/Manifest
index 0950c1caee004..e973b5e8fc40f 100644
--- a/dev-java/commons-io/Manifest
+++ b/dev-java/commons-io/Manifest
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
-DIST commons-io-2.16.1-src.tar.gz 634766 BLAKE2B 5bdc09ec07666ae513944040aae730a8bd5fe4fe65f05aa1f8295b6687f99c588ac4071113b5fa3bdc8f2e4fe0d8b40677c3afba18f332e283f28b5270d5f41c SHA512 07298e3af85726f2ec07a660fbb743f82cd88f8043a57e2e1063b758c81429dfafd77a024e2cdd48efe5d403299c20e898f5b3dd729f52bd55b8a6fb50c9a13a
-DIST commons-io-2.16.1-src.tar.gz.asc 488 BLAKE2B e42af1fe9cbb50371c981737e7899b30d99b8e7045485562614a72307068942b433614e4a1c3cdb17261917a1a5382c5828e290e50f3f3a12a3ed297be53cace SHA512 74e22fd7bf5daf58611537f6c21bd41e10942e3051785e13d771e5fd50e5403144a8d2ed9472de13263da5cbf579911a1aafaa7e43dea9f99fe6ad4011ecb74a
 DIST commons-io-2.17.0-src.tar.gz 652908 BLAKE2B c87f10584d7933215aa24e8bde1037eced0738098149e9423371a1fef0255e36e38a6c92cdafd75eecbf56d13c4c38d479fe2706afc86224900fcaf7cae5e5f5 SHA512 5681b7bab9e34e9051e4f7a48925ecdf5d8814894c2626298dfca7aa0566c2dc46c15843850e3e14a3e05613ae9ef9fd08077042931e2fe552057f9c1bee6b69
 DIST commons-io-2.17.0-src.tar.gz.asc 488 BLAKE2B 451dcfbc952994a2402a7657fb0702572c8873c977681236c26326eec15316d543a39a48530760cf8a7c8b8469c7d18b1a7f88a80ab096d1604c33ec050c9b27 SHA512 8708d9cd17a2805c385006fbd5d0db883b593c67ff4afaaac507ca2dbe9f4b2e51cc1c492577b2e2cc6151a766264f1b3cd7c4b526fe16afa814d7ae29d2722c
diff --git a/dev-java/commons-io/commons-io-2.16.1.ebuild b/dev-java/commons-io/commons-io-2.16.1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index af581b24575f7..0000000000000
--- a/dev-java/commons-io/commons-io-2.16.1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-# No tests, #839681
-JAVA_PKG_IUSE="doc source"
-MAVEN_ID="commons-io:commons-io:${PV}"
-
-inherit java-pkg-2 java-pkg-simple verify-sig
-
-DESCRIPTION="Utility classes, stream implementations, file filters, and much more"
-HOMEPAGE="https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-io/"
-SRC_URI="mirror://apache/commons/io/source/${P}-src.tar.gz
-	verify-sig? ( https://archive.apache.org/dist/commons/io/source/${P}-src.tar.gz.asc )"
-S="${WORKDIR}/${P}-src"
-
-LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
-SLOT="1"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 arm64 ppc64 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos"
-
-VERIFY_SIG_OPENPGP_KEY_PATH="/usr/share/openpgp-keys/commons.apache.org.asc"
-BDEPEND="verify-sig? ( sec-keys/openpgp-keys-apache-commons )"
-DEPEND=">=virtual/jdk-11:*"	# module-info
-RDEPEND=">=virtual/jre-1.8:*"
-
-JAVA_ENCODING="iso-8859-1"
-JAVA_SRC_DIR="src/main/java"
-
-src_compile() {
-	JAVA_JAR_FILENAME="org.apache.${PN}.jar"
-	java-pkg-simple_src_compile	# creates a legacy jar file without module-info
-
-	jdeps --generate-module-info \
-		src/main/java \
-		--multi-release 9 \
-		"${JAVA_JAR_FILENAME}" || die
-
-	JAVA_JAR_FILENAME="${PN}.jar"
-	java-pkg-simple_src_compile	# creates the final jar file including module-info
-
-}