diff --git a/dev-python/hunter/Manifest b/dev-python/hunter/Manifest
index 1cbe63eeff..b4d24e07b4 100644
--- a/dev-python/hunter/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/hunter/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST hunter-3.3.8.tar.gz 536260 BLAKE2B cdb048798dd831229f3c3ff784b16f94ee45c54bc35eb29e9b228f2736c103dbc39357df82476a2b25310501d33be67474f85c2f5a97a61baca20c8dfc5a725f SHA512 4d715893c805afb5ca709f8c8ce20fbf5ec8540a06c7536862d941a5a4f45b0721f8cd3aa2eeb79c072152d243f4d0ce949431defbdc8c17831f744c3f7ff58a
 DIST hunter-3.4.3.tar.gz 538017 BLAKE2B 92ad2b653d0285059ea2f005c6ba9564f357e1ea438a0fe30087f88efa202aaa504bad65985a88484cf7178c24432ac44705098dabc2667328c71e0ee38f718c SHA512 921bb48ac5d384977908dda060e178e623eb7c1e4298cbf3c0a273cab23695f2a2a60221afb257e54cd144399d2b3b55b80ae9a2c7f71ba452894cc86112d5f7
diff --git a/dev-python/hunter/files/remove-setuptools_scm-upper-constraint.patch b/dev-python/hunter/files/remove-setuptools_scm-upper-constraint.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 5e831b9064..0000000000
--- a/dev-python/hunter/files/remove-setuptools_scm-upper-constraint.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- a/setup.py
-+++ b/setup.py
-@@ -163,10 +163,10 @@
-         ':platform_system != "Windows"': ['manhole >= 1.5'],
-     },
-     setup_requires=[
--        'setuptools_scm>=3.3.1,!=4.0.0,<6.0',
-+        'setuptools_scm>=3.3.1',
-         'cython',
-     ] if Cython else [
--        'setuptools_scm>=3.3.1,!=4.0.0,<6.0',
-+        'setuptools_scm>=3.3.1',
-     ],
-     entry_points={
-         'console_scripts': [
diff --git a/dev-python/hunter/hunter-3.3.8.ebuild b/dev-python/hunter/hunter-3.3.8.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index c232f819e7..0000000000
--- a/dev-python/hunter/hunter-3.3.8.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,76 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} )
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="Hunter is a flexible code tracing toolkit"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://github.com/ionelmc/python-hunter
-	https://pypi.org/project/hunter/
-"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/ionelmc/python-${PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-S="${WORKDIR}/python-${P}"
-LICENSE="BSD-2"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-
-RDEPEND="dev-python/colorama[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
-DEPEND="dev-python/cython[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
-BDEPEND="
-	>=dev-python/setuptools_scm-3.3.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	test? (
-		dev-python/aspectlib[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/ipdb[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/manhole[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/process-tests[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/pytest-benchmark[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/six[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	)
-"
-
-DOCS=( AUTHORS.rst CHANGELOG.rst README.rst )
-PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}/remove-setuptools_scm-upper-constraint.patch" )
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest
-distutils_enable_sphinx docs ">=dev-python/sphinx-py3doc-enhanced-theme-2.3.2"
-
-python_compile() {
-	# native extension build fails with python3.10
-	# https://github.com/ionelmc/python-hunter/issues/104
-	if [[ ${EPYTHON} == python3.10 ]]; then
-		SETUPPY_NOEXT="yes" distutils-r1_python_compile
-		return
-	fi
-
-	distutils-r1_python_compile
-	if use test; then
-		"${EPYTHON}" tests/setup.py build_ext --force --inplace || die
-	fi
-}
-
-python_test() {
-	local PUREPYTHONHUNTER
-	local -x PYTHONPATH="${S}/tests:${BUILD_DIR}/lib:${PYTHONPATH}"
-	local epytest_args=(
-		--deselect tests/test_remote.py::test_gdb
-		--deselect tests/test_remote.py::test_gdb_clean_exit
-		--deselect tests/test_remote.py::test_manhole
-		--deselect tests/test_remote.py::test_manhole_clean_exit
-	)
-
-	if [[ ${EPYTHON} == python3.10 ]]; then
-		epytest_args+=(
-			--deselect tests/test_cookbook.py::test_probe
-			--deselect tests/test_tracer.py::test_perf_filter[pure]
-			--deselect tests/test_tracer.py::test_perf_stdlib[pure]
-			--deselect tests/test_tracer.py::test_perf_actions[pure]
-			--deselect tests/test_tracer.py::test_proper_backend
-		)
-		PUREPYTHONHUNTER="yes"
-	fi
-
-	epytest "${epytest_args[@]}"
-}