diff --git a/dev-python/pure-protobuf/Manifest b/dev-python/pure-protobuf/Manifest
index 64a457a06a..0dff758925 100644
--- a/dev-python/pure-protobuf/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/pure-protobuf/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST pure_protobuf-2.2.3.tar.gz 16445 BLAKE2B 38f13a975b4364e900e30e80d66e735ba4d871455002778f7caace14574de38fbfcf6735115b41a9c77cf023fea49dcaa1e43817e93f54388538f7619f26225a SHA512 b2189ff0971c0f797a526c056691e2d2e860d9a07be2d78ea30f5e74f940f95646235f2570c8d5d42559f184d37e0e3250f8caf4659092f567dd598c7b926a98
 DIST pure_protobuf-2.3.0.tar.gz 16481 BLAKE2B b56d024b13ef4711c9b53ffc47029fb4e49e025d8c096b547926d44a89769a26d180420698dbf51c2db4b58f8b8df6825d368c921babdd9774e4c3a4f0d72e7e SHA512 2b2eb372cde5b7c765fa878b06fe1a82f57061d0887f560aa84799db09d506a4947b54feffff51391ebf2c87923845f93badbab19e1cf45f998c79f6df75fb05
diff --git a/dev-python/pure-protobuf/pure-protobuf-2.2.3.ebuild b/dev-python/pure-protobuf/pure-protobuf-2.2.3.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index a737d0c949..0000000000
--- a/dev-python/pure-protobuf/pure-protobuf-2.2.3.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..11} )
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=hatchling
-inherit distutils-r1 pypi
-
-DESCRIPTION="Python implementation of Protocol Buffers data types with dataclasses support"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://github.com/eigenein/protobuf
-	https://pypi.org/project/pure-protobuf/
-"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64"
-
-# ModuleNotFoundError
-RESTRICT="test"
-
-BDEPEND="dev-python/hatch-vcs[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest
-
-export SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION=${PV}