diff --git a/dev-python/zope-cachedescriptors/Manifest b/dev-python/zope-cachedescriptors/Manifest
index 9c1cbcfffc..b919a9aa87 100644
--- a/dev-python/zope-cachedescriptors/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/zope-cachedescriptors/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST zope-cachedescriptors-4.4.gh.tar.gz 10194 BLAKE2B e5d505beef056610c4980d66bd8e183bd883e730aaf4cbfec0b1648be34ef7cd5547c20de465f173f9b54072014f4aa337337178d11a8c2ab1d8ad997f64d68d SHA512 22ba430ac899131512c4a69933155d06ade8a607a874c9cf733171148f7f9e50d4fde9976ab28aec19f19871a654cb78ba09d8fea0799cf0bb73bbbbe5680554
 DIST zope.cachedescriptors-5.0.tar.gz 13250 BLAKE2B b6e3f78555327d1676ffc7bfd4102fca701173bca0d0592fd1349343dcab769f7fc8456fd692bc1e7642e25dcf7ce2bd6b1304b084ab74cfd07f2323f9ceaed2 SHA512 fc310ba8a732871d578d689c2b98638b4e6de8455eaa2583eba2334ea021052a4bbd81eb57151a2ed6bd06ebdcea3348ebd98d4777e66ae613a078bc13911224
diff --git a/dev-python/zope-cachedescriptors/zope-cachedescriptors-4.4.ebuild b/dev-python/zope-cachedescriptors/zope-cachedescriptors-4.4.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index b48c8cbe83..0000000000
--- a/dev-python/zope-cachedescriptors/zope-cachedescriptors-4.4.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2023 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{9..11} pypy3 )
-
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="Python descriptors which cache their output"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/zopefoundation/zope.cachedescriptors"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/zopefoundation/zope.cachedescriptors/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.gh.tar.gz"
-S="${WORKDIR}/${PN/-/\.}-${PV}"
-
-LICENSE="ZPL"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64"
-
-src_prepare() {
-	# strip rdep specific to namespaces
-	sed -i -e "/'setuptools'/d" setup.py || die
-	distutils-r1_src_prepare
-}
-
-python_compile() {
-	distutils-r1_python_compile
-	find "${BUILD_DIR}" -name '*.pth' -delete || die
-}