diff --git a/kde-frameworks/kdoctools/Manifest b/kde-frameworks/kdoctools/Manifest
index 33f08c72becbc..2773fdb11c5f4 100644
--- a/kde-frameworks/kdoctools/Manifest
+++ b/kde-frameworks/kdoctools/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
 DIST kdoctools-5.77.0.tar.xz 438744 BLAKE2B a421da40e069bf8e2c5be170850fb82d2f7381ec4e75dd128bc7c1d5e005015d4b23b367d945209dd11095faeae765dc9c5a69de40bd7fc267d590950fcc8fcc SHA512 de712640776b26ddf714920fe6d63bdd0c5aa15e162fd0d75fb8199528b26e5bf622ad56e20298e606707d1e0ee579d334c63f0d019c872a1ea35ac77735d205
-DIST kdoctools-5.78.0.tar.xz 438520 BLAKE2B 18a1a6180edaf257de24e7db79e9e514878a01c1babaee962fa1d5afb7b94525352a300bad8e9a7a6b96b569cec1d107634841527c2b096b11d602dcfa50e607 SHA512 76b158099ac6c06c10245ba46a1f6431604ac3768f18fc52c7ce5016ff396a681ebc2466212cdc30da9342dc03beac7777cb27ea29484cc52183d1596ebb1fce
 DIST kdoctools-5.79.0.tar.xz 438452 BLAKE2B d9fed48c4a0d05e2fdff24a24ba3b3eabd385fb8d80c1feb2ea3b119c1e07afaa3979dfbb87c1ffabf2d6ce862661f3a8109e391bf56757f879f7cfdf4c7fa28 SHA512 ef5710d8656d8db63b251f730d4b595f2dc708e200f36bacfdc8b62f98968fc886fb8ddf41d8fe4ed73d8e6bf56d05e1ea4f7f360be953b3a9a545b4be653056
diff --git a/kde-frameworks/kdoctools/kdoctools-5.78.0.ebuild b/kde-frameworks/kdoctools/kdoctools-5.78.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 3b3ac23b5f354..0000000000000
--- a/kde-frameworks/kdoctools/kdoctools-5.78.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-
-ECM_QTHELP="false"
-PVCUT=$(ver_cut 1-2)
-inherit ecm kde.org
-
-DESCRIPTION="Tools to generate documentation in various formats from DocBook files"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~x86"
-IUSE="nls"
-
-BDEPEND="
-	dev-lang/perl
-	dev-perl/URI
-	nls? ( >=kde-frameworks/ki18n-${PVCUT}:5 )
-"
-DEPEND="
-	app-text/docbook-xml-dtd:4.5
-	app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets
-	app-text/sgml-common
-	dev-libs/libxml2:2
-	dev-libs/libxslt
-	=kde-frameworks/karchive-${PVCUT}*:5
-"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-
-PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}/${PN}-5.54.0-gentoo-docbundledir.patch" )
-
-src_configure() {
-	local mycmakeargs=(
-		$(cmake_use_find_package nls KF5I18n)
-	)
-
-	ecm_src_configure
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	# bug 665622
-	local myctestargs=(
-		-E "(kdoctools_install)"
-	)
-
-	ecm_src_test
-}