diff --git a/app-misc/brightness-control/Manifest b/app-misc/brightness-control/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index 3d84f674c7..0000000000
--- a/app-misc/brightness-control/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST brightness-control-2.4.tar.gz 293989 BLAKE2B 47b89fc6b81885823b82170f57fbe6b69f52b3ec7e77613dba84ea6a46af26d0c25256d4c76410ba61db011c1401b1c6ac68f059c4189ae1c6c416e5a830941a SHA512 b16297602d99c63293b7eeb6ceb49e68d2361e47b9f4aeae4f035c0b0834aecff45d25a9e27b1ec275b42377bc32f1ea17fe68dc95417e1cca597600f7b87882
diff --git a/app-misc/brightness-control/brightness-control-2.4.ebuild b/app-misc/brightness-control/brightness-control-2.4.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index dea5cdede6..0000000000
--- a/app-misc/brightness-control/brightness-control-2.4.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2019-2024 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..12} )
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=poetry
-DISTUTILS_SINGLE_IMPL=1
-
-inherit distutils-r1 desktop optfeature
-
-MY_PN="Brightness"
-DESCRIPTION="Qt Brightness Controller in Python"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/lordamit/Brightness"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/lordamit/${MY_PN}/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_PN}-${PV}/brightness-controller-linux"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-3"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-
-RDEPEND="$(python_gen_cond_dep \
-	'dev-python/qtpy[${PYTHON_USEDEP},gui,network,pyqt5,widgets]'
-)"
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest
-
-python_prepare_all() {
-	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
-
-	sed "/readme.md/d" -i pyproject.toml || die
-}
-
-python_install_all () {
-	distutils-r1_python_install_all
-
-	doicon -s scalable brightness_controller_linux/icons/brightness-controller.svg
-	make_desktop_entry brightness-controller "Brightness Controller" brightness-controller Settings
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	optfeature "direct control" app-misc/ddcutil
-}
diff --git a/app-misc/brightness-control/metadata.xml b/app-misc/brightness-control/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index e24525e128..0000000000
--- a/app-misc/brightness-control/metadata.xml
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@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
-	<upstream>
-		<remote-id type="github">lordamit/Brightness</remote-id>
-	</upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index 8c0769cd8f..e9cb36e086 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -154,11 +154,6 @@ dev-util/bump2version
 # Removal on 2025-03-24. Bug #928259.
 dev-python/pymemcache
 
-# David Roman <davidroman96@gmail.com> (2025-01-30)
-# Depends on qtpy[pyqt5] but pyqt5 USE has been removed from it
-# Removal on 2025-03-24
-app-misc/brightness-control
-
 # Julien Roy <julien@jroy.ca> (2024-03-21)
 # sys-libs/libucontext is masked in ::gentoo
 sys-libs/gcompat