diff --git a/dev-lua/mpack/mpack-1.0.4-r100.ebuild b/dev-lua/mpack/mpack-1.0.4-r100.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 7aca1045a8756..0000000000000
--- a/dev-lua/mpack/mpack-1.0.4-r100.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,86 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-
-LUA_COMPAT=( lua5-{1..3} luajit )
-
-inherit lua toolchain-funcs
-
-DESCRIPTION="Lua bindings for libmpack"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/libmpack/libmpack/"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/libmpack/libmpack/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-S="${WORKDIR}/libmpack-${PV}/binding/lua"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~x86"
-IUSE="test"
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-RDEPEND="${LUA_DEPS}"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
-BDEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig
-	test? (
-		${RDEPEND}
-		dev-lua/busted[${LUA_USEDEP}]
-	)"
-
-lua_src_compile() {
-	# Make sure we have got no leftovers from other implementations.
-	# There is no 'clean' target in the makefile, though.
-	rm -f ${PN}.so
-
-	# We set LUA_LIB to an empty string while building version 1.0.4 because
-	# compiled Lua modules must not link against liblua. This has already been
-	# fixed upstream.
-	emake \
-		CC="$(tc-getCC)" \
-		USE_SYSTEM_LUA=yes \
-		LUA_INCLUDE="$(lua_get_CFLAGS)" \
-		LUA_LIB=""
-
-	# Tag the result with current implementation and move it out of the way.
-	mv ${PN}.so ${PN}-${ELUA}.so || die
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	lua_foreach_impl lua_src_compile
-}
-
-lua_src_test() {
-	# "[  FAILED  ] test.lua @ 279: mpack should not leak memory"
-	# It doesn't seem upstream actually support LuaJIT so were this up to me
-	# I would drop it from LUA_COMPAT, unfortunately there are packages in the
-	# tree which currently expect it to be supported.
-	if [[ ${ELUA} == "luajit" ]]; then
-		ewarn "Not running tests under ${ELUA} because they are known to fail"
-		return
-	fi
-
-	# The test suite must be able to find the module under its original name.
-	rm -f ${PN}.so
-	ln -s ${PN}-${ELUA}.so ${PN}.so || die
-	busted --lua="${ELUA}" -o gtest test.lua || die
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	lua_foreach_impl lua_src_test
-}
-
-lua_src_install() {
-	# This time we move the correct library file back in order not to risk
-	# confusing make with symlinks.
-	mv ${PN}-${ELUA}.so ${PN}.so || die
-
-	emake \
-		DESTDIR="${ED}" \
-		USE_SYSTEM_LUA=yes \
-		LUA_CMOD_INSTALLDIR="$(lua_get_cmod_dir)" \
-		install
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	lua_foreach_impl lua_src_install
-	einstalldocs
-}
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index ef6ae87f557a4..e8ee1845c62b1 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ dev-lua/luacrypto
 >=dev-lua/luv-1.32.0.0-r100
 >=dev-lua/mediator_lua-1.1.2_p0-r100
 >=dev-lua/messagepack-0.3.2-r100
->=dev-lua/mpack-1.0.4-r100
+>=dev-lua/mpack-1.0.8-r100
 >=dev-lua/penlight-1.9.2-r100
 >=dev-lua/say-1.3_p1-r100
 >=dev-lua/toluapp-1.0.93_p20190513-r100