diff --git a/internal/link/heard_test.go b/internal/link/heard_test.go
index 999957d6..05d0e6f1 100644
--- a/internal/link/heard_test.go
+++ b/internal/link/heard_test.go
@@ -262,39 +262,6 @@ func TestWhatFiltersAMachineIsKeptFromItsReport(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// Measured on the home server (novox/hq issue 267): the mesh sent d2; the machine applied it and
-// reported, and a reconcile's report about d1 — made just before d2 arrived — reached the mesh after
-// it. Stored last, it read as the machine never having applied d2, and the release plan waited on a
-// report it had already been given.
-func TestAnAccountOfAnOlderDeclarationDoesNotReplaceTheNewer(t *testing.T) {
-	inv := inventory.ForTest(t)
-	ctx := context.Background()
-	_, err := inv.AddNode(ctx, "home-server")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	heard := link.Enrolment{Inventory: inv}
-	if _, err := heard.Heard(ctx, link.Report{Node: "home-server", Declared: "d2",
-		Applied: []string{"a", "b"}, Outward: []string{"eth0"}}); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if _, err := heard.Heard(ctx, link.Report{Node: "home-server", Declared: "d1",
-		Applied: []string{"a"}, Outward: []string{"eth1"}}); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	doing, said, err := inv.DoingOf(ctx, "home-server")
-	if err != nil || !said {
-		t.Fatalf("no account kept: %v", err)
-	}
-	if doing.Declared != "d2" || doing.Applied != 2 {
-		t.Fatalf("the older report replaced the account of what was sent: %+v", doing)
-	}
-	// What it says about the machine is kept whenever it arrives, as before.
-	if links, err := inv.OutwardLinksOf(ctx, "home-server"); err != nil || len(links) != 1 || links[0] != "eth1" {
-		t.Fatalf("what the older report said about the machine was not kept: %v %v", links, err)
-	}
-}
-
 // The account of the declaration that is outstanding replaces whatever was kept, and so does one
 // from a machine nothing was ever recorded as sent to.
 func TestAnAccountOfTheSentDeclarationReplacesTheKeptOne(t *testing.T) {