diff --git a/dev-python/requests/Manifest b/dev-python/requests/Manifest
index 15aaa9ca371c2..030c045cb1ba1 100644
--- a/dev-python/requests/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/requests/Manifest
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 DIST requests-2.11.1.tar.gz 485936 SHA256 5acf980358283faba0b897c73959cecf8b841205bb4b2ad3ef545f46eae1a133 SHA512 135cbab1e279ebf314bffca01bc4d9f9e71963c67069e330e78fbe06c4294031d1d616bc5d5e104161c8696b408887053bdd65351f85e9ff34646368c88852e5 WHIRLPOOL 838e3074f56a87766ebeb04eb75fdd6f5c83da7448b5e9297be8143330acaeae540d10939b7118cbd9e86c1749c8db5c6c22d50064e704b9c1d7278a37a48af4
 DIST requests-2.7.0.tar.gz 451723 SHA256 398a3db6d61899d25fd4a06c6ca12051b0ce171d705decd7ed5511517b4bb93d SHA512 a93223c3fd21c58f7c0c901b17be17c23dba4efeed8c4347da9d4e04d96a6698e08e01482205661cb7757cc7560d9ae2e62b18f2b422af0cb90fd998fe963ff2 WHIRLPOOL b805d76ad747fc8a754fb0ca0439e8f303df057c2b256ed7f57533b311322e4e28b0d8f22111a3c5ad283823c1256cd24c93fec2aeabc6946013c17ab3540dd9
-DIST requests-2.8.0.tar.gz 457879 SHA256 b2f003589b60924909c0acde472590c5ea83906986a7a25b6f7929eb20923b7b SHA512 cf41db4b1a4639e940c2b5c1e0edaf2c4dedf0a8ead8381e211fd9e350f491e252f10cfba09bb64b4a062be98ee43e133957f489649db15116a1811e06958bb3 WHIRLPOOL 5e7e889bc016f403e221af05d01aebbec4c96175c983e240128d288884768dc0c119d76c022fd3ae5d2222cfda5415c866052fa5c5f325ee22cebb33c780df16
 DIST requests-2.8.1.tar.gz 480803 SHA256 84fe8d5bf4dcdcc49002446c47a146d17ac10facf00d9086659064ac43b6c25b SHA512 bccec89165596df3af3f46eb43b5b28b595752485b00ed73978ef76fa6b8a8961c3db046c3f91ff34fa390f037322f6e13b141ba9b600a836a6d798086bd13fb WHIRLPOOL 445e0e12f5900c3396ae7a76d0010b9c4a4ff2c79c51dfc88f117918e436a4d67ea25de39f252cacaabd737b7b1542374172a2b6f482d7ffe1f7514d1cb4a06b
 DIST requests-2.9.1.tar.gz 484252 SHA256 c577815dd00f1394203fc44eb979724b098f88264a9ef898ee45b8e5e9cf587f SHA512 0b2b64b2ebb68703f2a222a3e5d0227cf15250319195a13497e38959c64b82359b70221157eab2ab828dfc79bcfec13ede4d6272f0202ae1b22ae79d5810adb9 WHIRLPOOL 9d942b97168c8a869b703db324a263ed3f5279a17e18444f7311e3d3a06aac99ef939c1d3f966025d6ac9e2967415880669b3bac6766c2d39c2faee43cb146c3
diff --git a/dev-python/requests/requests-2.8.0.ebuild b/dev-python/requests/requests-2.8.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index a6f073a5e674f..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/requests/requests-2.8.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Id$
-
-EAPI=5
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{3,4,5} pypy pypy3 )
-PYTHON_REQ_USE="threads(+)"
-
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="HTTP library for human beings"
-HOMEPAGE="http://python-requests.org/ https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests"
-SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${P:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~x86-fbsd ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~x64-macos ~x86-macos"
-IUSE="test"
-
-# bundles dev-python/urllib3 snapshot
-RDEPEND="
-	app-misc/ca-certificates
-	>=dev-python/chardet-2.2.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/ndg-httpsclient[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/py-1.4.30[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/pyasn1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/pyopenssl[$(python_gen_usedep 'python*' pypy)]
-	"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	test? (
-		>=dev-python/pytest-2.8.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	)
-	"
-
-# tests connect to various remote sites
-RESTRICT="test"
-
-PATCHES=(
-	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-2.2.0-system-chardet.patch
-	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-2.5.0-system-cacerts.patch
-)
-
-python_prepare_all() {
-	# use system chardet
-	rm -r requests/packages/chardet || die
-
-	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
-}
-
-python_test() {
-	"${PYTHON}" test_requests.py || die "Tests fail with ${EPYTHON}"
-}