diff --git a/net-im/corebird/Manifest b/net-im/corebird/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index cc6dbf8..0000000
--- a/net-im/corebird/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-AUX corebird-1.7.2-increase-max-length-to-280.patch 569 SHA256 e878bdf915734b3f9f1261601d993835252ec07dd1cac39935186b44f983f90d SHA512 af166cc9c34d26e917dc4382c1ea5e0ab3f8990c46c84f5fae15c3b5aef2a0a8b82f0f38ba8ac59462969ae42b4bf7c1c47d7c47a06b5b4d39c948beab839a01 WHIRLPOOL ca9e9fdbd27c00f2d2187d988fd023ba2ab57e1900d72d51ff1c5ec5cd0c3ed2ee399ec4e47bc5af96110e9f4ff023d944aa4f73171690a5b32a539aef373a5f
-DIST corebird-1.7.2.tar.gz 548347 SHA256 dabaafa812924e40c9046d99cd547727ed2b520afb4a0f10eb4cca8f90e145e3 SHA512 26ac9215130975011ec83fb6e379888b52f7d5027943627788dd4aaa9cb8085de0f7f7e78e45ff97a8f1cd5b00bf28ce42865897056297e9a02c8d6c6e76b5ad WHIRLPOOL f7ba626c2c275901a4b78f76e5fac0f2bcc67187399872996cbd0faf68b17b070d7e96215f57120e2372f82ac562e6c030ecaae59da4de25694ea80e9631ff9d
-EBUILD corebird-1.7.2.ebuild 1475 SHA256 68c655ec921d94e8c386b77b3a0b54cc61bb279603da27468d52b32c4705d714 SHA512 a4aa5046b1a6b8377dad5787dccc98df364f310dfb9ff0a33238280dc71292870677c8262301b7e0ad3622106326266864e49831b95ed82370b17497b60c0e12 WHIRLPOOL ad61cd55746dd5cfe9c9c4c518d1f48d411b4737d5ba28629c39c81ddf009c3347d577335262f19c40b18be227b1d5ad943b7e06374dc3b129bdbb64b431188f
-MISC metadata.xml 355 SHA256 8270feae05e8f9c8bfae87ce72f4b97ed2d9dbdaa3796dfa23537586f34b70c6 SHA512 0c263ab42c76690d418ff53490106f03c71f6aef1a1342999436537a05ed844252c722eedf70c669418023b366cbf15a5aac81ccb3396ef4326f97180601c150 WHIRLPOOL 3d550d6bbed09ece42de110251987ab4b0375ddb98c780697afc0eb2043a6d02897de81b9d58d0410f185ebdfd594a42945aa5484d96c0365355d08d5fd6cf93
diff --git a/net-im/corebird/corebird-1.7.2.ebuild b/net-im/corebird/corebird-1.7.2.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index ec32078..0000000
--- a/net-im/corebird/corebird-1.7.2.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=6
-
-VALA_MIN_API_VERSION=0.34
-
-inherit autotools gnome2 vala virtualx
-
-DESCRIPTION="Native GTK+3 Twitter client"
-HOMEPAGE="http://corebird.baedert.org/"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/baedert/corebird/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-3"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE="debug gstreamer spellcheck"
-
-RDEPEND="dev-db/sqlite:3
-	>=dev-libs/glib-2.44:2
-	dev-libs/json-glib
-	gstreamer? ( media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta:1.0[X]
-		media-libs/gst-plugins-base:1.0[X]
-		>=media-libs/gst-plugins-bad-1.6:1.0[X,gtk]
-		media-libs/gst-plugins-good:1.0
-		media-plugins/gst-plugins-libav:1.0
-		media-plugins/gst-plugins-soup:1.0
-		media-plugins/gst-plugins-hls:1.0 )
-	spellcheck? ( >=app-text/gspell-1.0[vala] )
-	>=net-libs/libsoup-2.42.3.1
-	>=x11-libs/gtk+-3.20:3"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	$(vala_depend)
-	>=dev-util/intltool-0.40
-	sys-apps/sed
-	virtual/pkgconfig"
-
-PATCHES=(
-        "${FILESDIR}/${P}-increase-max-length-to-280.patch"
-)
-
-src_prepare() {
-	sed -i -e "/highlighting/d" tests/Makefile.am || die
-	sed -i -e "/manpagedir/s/manpagedir.*/&\/man1/g" data/Makefile.am || die
-	eautoreconf
-	gnome2_src_prepare
-	vala_src_prepare
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	local myeconfargs=(
-		$(usex gstreamer "" --disable-video)
-		--disable-gst-check
-		$(usex spellcheck "" --disable-spellcheck)
-	)
-	gnome2_src_configure "${myeconfargs[@]}"
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	virtx emake check
-}
diff --git a/net-im/corebird/files/corebird-1.7.2-increase-max-length-to-280.patch b/net-im/corebird/files/corebird-1.7.2-increase-max-length-to-280.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index c87dbab..0000000
--- a/net-im/corebird/files/corebird-1.7.2-increase-max-length-to-280.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-From d3cc0b068b4f3b1d0d97e4bd7c9e723d002636c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: =?UTF-8?q?Timm=20B=C3=A4der?= <mail@baedert.org>
-Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 09:03:36 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] CbTweet: Increase max length to 280
-
-Closes #780
----
- src/CbTweet.h | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/src/CbTweet.h b/src/CbTweet.h
-index 9c006ce90..5e861c11d 100644
---- a/src/CbTweet.h
-+++ b/src/CbTweet.h
-@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
- #include "CbTypes.h"
- #include "CbMedia.h"
- 
--#define CB_TWEET_MAX_LENGTH 140
-+#define CB_TWEET_MAX_LENGTH 280
- 
- typedef enum
- {
diff --git a/net-im/corebird/metadata.xml b/net-im/corebird/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index a3f91c2..0000000
--- a/net-im/corebird/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-	<use>
-		<flag name="glade">Install glade catalogs for corebird</flag>
-		<flag name="spellcheck">Support spell checking</flag>
-	</use>
-	<upstream>
-		<remote-id type="github">baedert/corebird</remote-id>
-	</upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>