diff --git a/dev-python/python-socketio/Manifest b/dev-python/python-socketio/Manifest
index 75696e287e..1d1cdc923e 100644
--- a/dev-python/python-socketio/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/python-socketio/Manifest
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 DIST python_socketio-5.16.4.tar.gz 128140 BLAKE2B 4e139a65eee7b2b602b827d2700cad39e46fe15dc4d19c89cedca94b0e0151c47a0acddd98fb35f3671e07fae840453fc5cd105aaa154e37f86368c3dc9410d3 SHA512 d5828c315977b4934c74f7f7c9cf609049263e378dffa389ddf9380bc1279cb617e0d9585f4471e5459d5f367f5e1fbe8be1956303ca1e16eb088241b6883cf7
-DIST python_socketio-5.17.0.tar.gz 134574 BLAKE2B e129eb4f606888ccbdfd348c411437ad137802ebee072989af97f1370bdcd3851b828eb7554bf0cc1bfd661539888df090e992289005d1244991fe4beb501844 SHA512 a5397f28552b7aa56fd1b4b88f7b165d23a80b570dd56f3135f5325216bf6f0404423ca0b8fc998b8100a8c68fc2686b4408c47eae78cb3d79f8641ad129abe4
 DIST python_socketio-5.17.1.tar.gz 131117 BLAKE2B 80eaf12655b5c9b98c34f185d1985fe80f2b0fc170282a5f5d4e6d866204745c8223c9f23c0326d0f8af92253dccece66346f583e7b17b695f6664b44dcda740 SHA512 919cc4d9f398e57552450de535dfe285eabbf03949d9bf1f2b8a40b1d5ea262e92dad06fcd23b72097c76e34dc6b84e194ed1ad1e2a823c2acee3cc51449bdce
 DIST python_socketio-5.18.0.tar.gz 131736 BLAKE2B 6b15aac1cadb0d5669c6d9911f0780d6379ae904ea0a9fb4c1aa3383db697548c6aadf23fec56ea9cec2db7c072d0dbe421100097b6d234da4ae06fe0f863091 SHA512 3a1e717ddb30782c1000f5c51ef1d95a6783a4070651c97ff25257a19eb2bc637c129733ce18770854a4786b5b485f31289eba9c24108937057132ed222f0f1d
diff --git a/dev-python/python-socketio/python-socketio-5.17.0.ebuild b/dev-python/python-socketio/python-socketio-5.17.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index c2c7314ffe..0000000000
--- a/dev-python/python-socketio/python-socketio-5.17.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +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..14} )
-inherit distutils-r1 pypi
-
-DESCRIPTION="Python implementation of the Socket.IO realtime server"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://python-socketio.readthedocs.org/
-	https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/python-socketio/
-	https://pypi.org/project/python-socketio
-"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64"
-
-IUSE="client asyncio-client"
-
-RDEPEND="dev-python/bidict[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/python-engineio-4.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	client? (
-		dev-python/requests[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/websocket-client[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	)
-	asyncio-client? (
-		dev-python/aiohttp[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/websockets[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	)
-"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
-REQUIRED_USE="${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}"
-
-# pypi tarball does not contain tests
-RESTRICT="test"
-
-src_prepare() {
-	# `project.license` as a TOML table is deprecated, so we remove it
-	sed -ie "/license =/d" pyproject.toml \
-		|| die "Failed to remove deprecated project.license"
-	eapply_user
-}