diff --git a/dev-python/automaton/Manifest b/dev-python/automaton/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index f5a745562b..0000000000
--- a/dev-python/automaton/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST automaton-2.5.0.tar.gz 34476 BLAKE2B d2f3fbe486a84af022586fada7b02d0a498d7335aec1c8b47f28607375ca9523674cfc7a113e8ac096c2aa127740b421b288fc76fc22f4b9c9fb67e8f1f789c3 SHA512 ff7c15240e587653a67c3be821855a0102985db31effcb2c3dba79431d052e9aacc14ab0f4d0736c4043143e7aefd7b4bcaf5821e1496b9d83e90721dcead4c4
diff --git a/dev-python/automaton/automaton-2.5.0.ebuild b/dev-python/automaton/automaton-2.5.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 0d5b8f69bf..0000000000
--- a/dev-python/automaton/automaton-2.5.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{9..10} )
-
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="Friendly state machines for python"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://pypi.org/project/automaton/
-	https://opendev.org/openstack/automaton
-"
-SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	>=dev-python/pbr-2.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/prettytable-0.7.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-"
-DEPEND="
-	${RDEPEND}
-	test? (
-		>=dev-python/oslotest-3.2.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/testtools-2.2.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/reno-3.1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	)
-"
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest
diff --git a/dev-python/automaton/metadata.xml b/dev-python/automaton/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 391055c5a5..0000000000
--- a/dev-python/automaton/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<description>co-maintainers welcome</description>
-		<email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<stabilize-allarches/>
-	<upstream>
-		<remote-id type="pypi">automaton</remote-id>
-	</upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index adb6f394e6..e4fab17756 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ dev-python/py3nvml
 # Python libraries with no consumers left in tree.
 # Masked for removal in 30 days.
 dev-python/SQLAlchemy-Utils
-dev-python/automaton
 
 # Julien Roy <julien@jroy.ca> (2023-01-25)
 # Requires <dev-python/coverage-7, which is no longer available in ::gentoo.