diff --git a/app-vim/voom/Manifest b/app-vim/voom/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index 3e05ac3af97d..000000000000
--- a/app-vim/voom/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST voom-5.3.tar.gz 115841 BLAKE2B 6e88c4121b796a75ee623537483ff579acb4de73ff353408381ee64ce708cff1d7f8c45bdbe1e0c9761b5a17dd3aa54b3a0a2cf83873628bd1490e1524962ea2 SHA512 f51f30641d8b3d0ff5cd0d6b31cd1d8a15cb14f20f973ac83b9b5d046b94452e6e4e4ff0b28ce7842aa7f9b656a9dd631297aeae16ea75eea4411d911057873e
diff --git a/app-vim/voom/metadata.xml b/app-vim/voom/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index adef6e997bad..000000000000
--- a/app-vim/voom/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="project">
-		<email>vim@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Gentoo Vim Project</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<upstream>
-		<remote-id type="github">vim-voom/VOoM</remote-id>
-		<remote-id type="vim">2657</remote-id>
-	</upstream>
-	<stabilize-allarches/>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/app-vim/voom/voom-5.3-r1.ebuild b/app-vim/voom/voom-5.3-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 2a3f7c898585..000000000000
--- a/app-vim/voom/voom-5.3-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{9..11} )
-
-inherit python-single-r1 vim-plugin
-
-DESCRIPTION="vim plugin: emulates a two-pane text outliner"
-HOMEPAGE="https://vim-voom.github.io/ https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2657"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/vim-voom/VOoM/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="CC0-1.0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 x86"
-REQUIRED_USE="${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}"
-
-VIM_PLUGIN_HELPFILES="${PN}.txt"
-
-RDEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}
-	|| (
-		app-editors/vim[python,${PYTHON_SINGLE_USEDEP}]
-		app-editors/gvim[python,${PYTHON_SINGLE_USEDEP}]
-	)"
-
-S=${WORKDIR}/VOoM-${PV}
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index 2dd7efb00270..4f6b20b1d829 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -240,13 +240,6 @@ sys-fs/encfs
 # https://github.com/pyparsing/pyparsing/issues/618
 =dev-python/pyparsing-3.2.4
 
-# Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@gentoo.org> (2025-09-01)
-# Effectively unmaintained in Gentoo. Upstream dead for 8 years. Stuck
-# on py3.11, but no testsuite and still has py2-specific source code so
-# the pity port to py3 was likely misguided and never tested!
-# Removal on 2025-10-01.  Bug #956814.
-app-vim/voom
-
 # Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> (2025-08-29)
 # Obsolete transitional meta package. Bug #961795. Removal on 2025-09-28.
 media-sound/pulseaudio