diff --git a/app-text/html-xml-utils/Manifest b/app-text/html-xml-utils/Manifest
index f468c2122ac1..6ec1e70c53de 100644
--- a/app-text/html-xml-utils/Manifest
+++ b/app-text/html-xml-utils/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST html-xml-utils-8.6.tar.gz 421530 BLAKE2B 8c13a36798c5bb2e325f0df38696a9428b6c3ca087bbb4d1e7d9f2dd372e0aff386b7747e117016ad733ac07ab56a38b5ad0bcb1a0aa6b5ffd58de0ba2d8027d SHA512 0050b789a4921fa66b863255f1fd1ef9826e4b778ebc6dc67592fe854ec314b13cd8b162af67dae204018867966cfd5cb9822345917d3de3dc76c797bc0d2ec1
 DIST html-xml-utils-8.7.tar.gz 426378 BLAKE2B fe485559138895f49c4451c50367cd77aeb05102610c3d532521f7cee7c045c0cb08fd142b7f28e0eac078d043e15d284291063c3545af812c1d54351d43c398 SHA512 dc3896c6d5b15cf7363ebdc1cb373f762d99f7eb7c37d5f36669b3c8e026a840d2045adef65a4e6067315f2cf8fc97961fa1f63f309525eb2665ef8b69df4be3
diff --git a/app-text/html-xml-utils/html-xml-utils-8.6.ebuild b/app-text/html-xml-utils/html-xml-utils-8.6.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index e57cdbeb6610..000000000000
--- a/app-text/html-xml-utils/html-xml-utils-8.6.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DESCRIPTION="A number of simple utilities for manipulating HTML and XML files"
-HOMEPAGE="https://www.w3.org/Tools/HTML-XML-utils/"
-SRC_URI="https://www.w3.org/Tools/HTML-XML-utils/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="W3C"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ppc ppc64 x86 ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	net-dns/libidn2:=
-	net-misc/curl
-"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-	sed -e "/doc_DATA = COPYING/d" -i Makefile.in || die
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	# Lots of tests lack a shebang and use bashisms
-	# (seems to be better wrt bashisms as of 8.6, but still no shebang. recheck?)
-	emake check SHELL="${BROOT}"/bin/bash
-}