diff --git a/dev-python/desktop-notifier/Manifest b/dev-python/desktop-notifier/Manifest
index 98f2f25396..266b4c0654 100644
--- a/dev-python/desktop-notifier/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/desktop-notifier/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST desktop-notifier-3.5.5.tar.gz 29785 BLAKE2B e2da1e2300cc36317da7ed079366488f94de829d55a4cded0f63f74f6f14563231128468a6234f060179e3af15677e6cbe8d1f270d271e96823a46d1009ff01b SHA512 b5cc42fda55719adf7afaae4addc24e5d21638e5b389f9c52c47d7b0daf2b1ed80c989a90d1f53e57edc320cac4af8d46d3dcdee30c499ed6717698af3f1b8e3
 DIST desktop-notifier-3.5.6.tar.gz 29856 BLAKE2B bd96ced2b4ac33b813d4767f79991875cbf0f5b03223323357234adae1a1e94f290720c93ca8643f195d02ce15263b16161e30cf53685bcbd2dcb56e45391779 SHA512 5e05143d183d519e1d653787e13b015cd6bd8deb302bcfb79f6be64325b586454019aaa140fcb7ffd7554f6ee36e9f6a44ef2ea9722af88ffff08b94584a3949
diff --git a/dev-python/desktop-notifier/desktop-notifier-3.5.5.ebuild b/dev-python/desktop-notifier/desktop-notifier-3.5.5.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index bc9b4ccfdd..0000000000
--- a/dev-python/desktop-notifier/desktop-notifier-3.5.5.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2021-2023 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..11} )
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
-PYPI_NO_NORMALIZE=1
-
-inherit distutils-r1 pypi
-
-DESCRIPTION="desktop-notifier is a Python library for cross-platform desktop notifications"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://desktop-notifier.readthedocs.io
-	https://pypi.org/project/desktop-notifier/
-	https://github.com/samschott/desktop-notifier
-"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	dev-python/dbus-next[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/packaging[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/wheel[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	dev-python/build[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-"
-
-PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-importlib-resources.patch )
diff --git a/dev-python/desktop-notifier/files/desktop-notifier-3.5.5-importlib-resources.patch b/dev-python/desktop-notifier/files/desktop-notifier-3.5.5-importlib-resources.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 9780c19d89..0000000000
--- a/dev-python/desktop-notifier/files/desktop-notifier-3.5.5-importlib-resources.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-dev-python/importlib-resources has been removed from Gentoo for python > 3.9
-
-See also https://github.com/samschott/desktop-notifier/issues/92
-
---- a/src/desktop_notifier/base.py
-+++ b/src/desktop_notifier/base.py
-@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
-     Sequence,
- )
- 
--from importlib_resources import files, as_file
-+from importlib.resources import files, as_file
- 
- 
- logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)