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-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} )
-DISTUTILS_USE_SETUPTOOLS=no
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="Python binding for MeCab"
-HOMEPAGE="https://taku910.github.io/mecab/"
-SRC_URI="https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/${PN%-*}/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="|| ( BSD LGPL-2.1 GPL-2 )"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ~ia64 ppc64 x86"
-
-DEPEND="~app-text/mecab-${PV}"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-
-PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-python3.patch )
-DOCS=( AUTHORS README test.py )
-HTML_DOCS=( bindings.html )
-
-python_test() {
-	"${EPYTHON}" test.py || die "Tests failed with ${EPYTHON}"
-}