diff --git a/dev-build/autoconf-dickey/Manifest b/dev-build/autoconf-dickey/Manifest
index e94a05e5a0fe..30238c6c9c6c 100644
--- a/dev-build/autoconf-dickey/Manifest
+++ b/dev-build/autoconf-dickey/Manifest
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
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diff --git a/dev-build/autoconf-dickey/autoconf-dickey-2.52_p20230114.ebuild b/dev-build/autoconf-dickey/autoconf-dickey-2.52_p20230114.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index eebee957bb2c..000000000000
--- a/dev-build/autoconf-dickey/autoconf-dickey-2.52_p20230114.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-# TODO: adapt toolchain-autoconf to take econf args?
-# TODO: review our old autoconf-2.52 patches?
-
-VERIFY_SIG_OPENPGP_KEY_PATH=/usr/share/openpgp-keys/thomasdickey.asc
-inherit verify-sig
-
-MY_P=${PN/-dickey}-${PV/_p/-}
-DESCRIPTION="Fork of dev-build/autoconf for Thomas Dickey's packages"
-HOMEPAGE="https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/autoconf.html"
-SRC_URI="https://invisible-island.net/archives/autoconf/${MY_P}.tgz"
-SRC_URI+=" verify-sig? ( https://invisible-island.net/archives/autoconf/${MY_P}.tgz.asc )"
-S="${WORKDIR}"/${MY_P}
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2"
-SLOT="$(ver_cut 1-2)"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	>=sys-devel/m4-1.4.16
-	>=dev-lang/perl-5.6
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	${RDEPEND}
-	verify-sig? ( sec-keys/openpgp-keys-thomasdickey )
-"
-
-src_prepare() {
-	# usr/bin/libtool is provided by binutils-apple, need gnu libtool
-	#if [[ ${CHOST} == *-darwin* ]] ; then
-	#	PATCHES+=( "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-2.61-darwin.patch )
-	#fi
-
-	default
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	local myeconfargs=(
-		--datadir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/${PN}
-		--program-suffix=-dickey
-	)
-
-	econf "${myeconfargs[@]}"
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	# -j1 for bug #869278
-	emake -j1 check
-}
diff --git a/dev-build/autoconf-dickey/autoconf-dickey-2.52_p20231210.ebuild b/dev-build/autoconf-dickey/autoconf-dickey-2.52_p20231210.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index eebee957bb2c..000000000000
--- a/dev-build/autoconf-dickey/autoconf-dickey-2.52_p20231210.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-# TODO: adapt toolchain-autoconf to take econf args?
-# TODO: review our old autoconf-2.52 patches?
-
-VERIFY_SIG_OPENPGP_KEY_PATH=/usr/share/openpgp-keys/thomasdickey.asc
-inherit verify-sig
-
-MY_P=${PN/-dickey}-${PV/_p/-}
-DESCRIPTION="Fork of dev-build/autoconf for Thomas Dickey's packages"
-HOMEPAGE="https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/autoconf.html"
-SRC_URI="https://invisible-island.net/archives/autoconf/${MY_P}.tgz"
-SRC_URI+=" verify-sig? ( https://invisible-island.net/archives/autoconf/${MY_P}.tgz.asc )"
-S="${WORKDIR}"/${MY_P}
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2"
-SLOT="$(ver_cut 1-2)"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	>=sys-devel/m4-1.4.16
-	>=dev-lang/perl-5.6
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	${RDEPEND}
-	verify-sig? ( sec-keys/openpgp-keys-thomasdickey )
-"
-
-src_prepare() {
-	# usr/bin/libtool is provided by binutils-apple, need gnu libtool
-	#if [[ ${CHOST} == *-darwin* ]] ; then
-	#	PATCHES+=( "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-2.61-darwin.patch )
-	#fi
-
-	default
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	local myeconfargs=(
-		--datadir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/${PN}
-		--program-suffix=-dickey
-	)
-
-	econf "${myeconfargs[@]}"
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	# -j1 for bug #869278
-	emake -j1 check
-}
diff --git a/dev-build/autoconf-dickey/autoconf-dickey-2.52_p20240618.ebuild b/dev-build/autoconf-dickey/autoconf-dickey-2.52_p20240618.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index eebee957bb2c..000000000000
--- a/dev-build/autoconf-dickey/autoconf-dickey-2.52_p20240618.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-# TODO: adapt toolchain-autoconf to take econf args?
-# TODO: review our old autoconf-2.52 patches?
-
-VERIFY_SIG_OPENPGP_KEY_PATH=/usr/share/openpgp-keys/thomasdickey.asc
-inherit verify-sig
-
-MY_P=${PN/-dickey}-${PV/_p/-}
-DESCRIPTION="Fork of dev-build/autoconf for Thomas Dickey's packages"
-HOMEPAGE="https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/autoconf.html"
-SRC_URI="https://invisible-island.net/archives/autoconf/${MY_P}.tgz"
-SRC_URI+=" verify-sig? ( https://invisible-island.net/archives/autoconf/${MY_P}.tgz.asc )"
-S="${WORKDIR}"/${MY_P}
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2"
-SLOT="$(ver_cut 1-2)"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	>=sys-devel/m4-1.4.16
-	>=dev-lang/perl-5.6
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	${RDEPEND}
-	verify-sig? ( sec-keys/openpgp-keys-thomasdickey )
-"
-
-src_prepare() {
-	# usr/bin/libtool is provided by binutils-apple, need gnu libtool
-	#if [[ ${CHOST} == *-darwin* ]] ; then
-	#	PATCHES+=( "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-2.61-darwin.patch )
-	#fi
-
-	default
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	local myeconfargs=(
-		--datadir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/${PN}
-		--program-suffix=-dickey
-	)
-
-	econf "${myeconfargs[@]}"
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	# -j1 for bug #869278
-	emake -j1 check
-}