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+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..13} )
+PYTHON_REQ_USE="sqlite"
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="CLI for SQLite with auto-completion and syntax highlighting"
+HOMEPAGE="https://litecli.com/ https://github.com/dbcli/litecli"
+
+if [[ ${PV} == "9999" ]]; then
+	inherit git-r3
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/dbcli/litecli.git"
+else
+	inherit pypi
+	KEYWORDS="amd64 x86"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/click-4.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/cli-helpers-2.2.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/configobj-5.0.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/prompt-toolkit-3.0.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	<dev-python/prompt-toolkit-4.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/pygments-1.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/sqlparse-0.4.4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	test? (
+		dev-python/mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest