diff --git a/dev-python/webhelpers/Manifest b/dev-python/webhelpers/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index 2b3e85b22..000000000
--- a/dev-python/webhelpers/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST WebHelpers-1.3.tar.gz 729963 BLAKE2B 98a51d39f0ea8aaca894ffed1fb21fd05305fc70c9c07062231da16091b7b81fa425725b915fe36b09f7c2943633e9b0e6e326031b1e50c84676b567b2ffe762 SHA512 ff1f19c5b878bdcb05664523d16fce1abb012957f00a97c06b3b5db581c6a361a2db5516b47a0e2b107bc9ba73270ccb323afb240cc67a34d6f15ce9462fad77
diff --git a/dev-python/webhelpers/files/mime9ad434b.patch b/dev-python/webhelpers/files/mime9ad434b.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 5e37216f3..000000000
--- a/dev-python/webhelpers/files/mime9ad434b.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-https://bitbucket.org/bbangert/webhelpers/commits/9ad434bec9a16c06c1cfeed38cde02f00a95685d
-diff -ur WebHelpers-1.3.orig/webhelpers/mimehelper.py WebHelpers-1.3/webhelpers/mimehelper.py
---- webhelpers/mimehelper.py	2010-11-18 12:34:33.000000000 +0800
-+++ webhelpers/mimehelper.py	2013-06-17 15:45:40.603257640 +0800
-@@ -110,8 +110,7 @@
-             if '.' in last_part:
-                 has_extension = True
-         if 'HTTP_ACCEPT' in self.env:
--            possible_from_accept_header = webob.acceptparse.MIMEAccept('ACCEPT', 
--                self.env['HTTP_ACCEPT'])
-+            possible_from_accept_header = webob.acceptparse.MIMEAccept(self.env['HTTP_ACCEPT'])
-         if has_extension == False:
-             if possible_from_accept_header is None:
-                 return self._set_response_content_type(content_type)
diff --git a/dev-python/webhelpers/webhelpers-1.3-r1.ebuild b/dev-python/webhelpers/webhelpers-1.3-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 5e0c9ea81..000000000
--- a/dev-python/webhelpers/webhelpers-1.3-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=5
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
-
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-MY_PN="WebHelpers"
-MY_P="${MY_PN}-${PV}"
-
-DESCRIPTION="Web Helpers"
-HOMEPAGE="https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/webhelpers/en/latest/
-	https://pypi.python.org/pypi/WebHelpers"
-SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${MY_PN:0:1}/${MY_PN}/${MY_P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="BSD"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos"
-IUSE="doc test"
-
-RDEPEND=">=dev-python/markupsafe-0.9.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/webob[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/routes[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	doc? ( dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
-	test? ( dev-python/nose[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )"
-
-S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
-
-python_prepare_all() {
-	# https://bitbucket.org/bbangert/webhelpers/issue/67
-	sed \
-		-e '/import datetime/a import os' \
-		-e 's:"/tmp/feed":os.environ.get("TMPDIR", "/tmp") + "/feed":' \
-		-i tests/test_feedgenerator.py || die "sed failed"
-
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/mime9ad434b.patch
-
-	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
-}
-
-python_compile_all() {
-	use doc && emake html -C docs
-}
-
-python_test() {
-	nosetests || die "Tests failed under ${EPYTHON}"
-}
-
-python_install_all() {
-	if use doc; then
-		pushd docs/_build/html > /dev/null
-		docinto html
-		insinto /usr/share/doc/${PF}/html
-		doins -r [a-z]* _static || die "Installation of documentation failed"
-		popd > /dev/null
-	fi
-	distutils-r1_python_install_all
-}