diff --git a/dev-python/w3lib/Manifest b/dev-python/w3lib/Manifest
index 12ed0a16b3..d3849077ad 100644
--- a/dev-python/w3lib/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/w3lib/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST w3lib-2.1.2.tar.gz 48715 BLAKE2B 8ec3514351634430b348d19a87e21fc95fbb230bac51b59801f692c4d2dc8426bd9740db49949efb2df80eda69026fb202ea0ae80fba45506a366c0b66bc8b29 SHA512 cfff2520cab24b84c93223125de3fb813e4d40d23a022f7fc34196c3033adb5dfc01358d62566dcc4b763d40b271e1428eba0250ba997228d07f35cd3721e37e
 DIST w3lib-2.3.1.tar.gz 49531 BLAKE2B b5409de02fd965fb214b19f3c3a47c2f4a303dee4343f9994aea361ae857d7ca49ef02c1233cefb0487ffddd6d85731d9ba4fde33a94419eaead40df43b3d547 SHA512 b65d5773aa35e2d2e95a395f25c9a9520d1143569faa94d000f01fa0a17258bcbdc2f1cf744c70be26a7e3e77d50deac9d09e572284bdd0e5e3d483ba7d4fee7
diff --git a/dev-python/w3lib/w3lib-2.1.2.ebuild b/dev-python/w3lib/w3lib-2.1.2.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index a6b8238209..0000000000
--- a/dev-python/w3lib/w3lib-2.1.2.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..12} pypy3 )
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
-inherit distutils-r1 pypi
-
-DESCRIPTION="Library of web-related functions"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://scrapy.org/
-	https://pypi.org/project/w3lib/
-	https://github.com/scrapy/w3lib
-"
-
-LICENSE="BSD"
-SLOT=0
-KEYWORDS="~amd64"
-
-RDEPEND="dev-python/six[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest
-
-distutils_enable_sphinx docs \
-	dev-python/sphinx-hoverxref \
-	dev-python/sphinx-notfound-page
-
-EPYTEST_DESELECT=(
-	# https://github.com/scrapy/w3lib/issues/164
-	tests/test_url.py::UrlTests::test_add_or_replace_parameter
-)