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-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_EXT=1
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..13} pypy3 pypy3_11 )
-
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-MY_P=python-zstandard-${PV}
-DESCRIPTION="Zstandard Bindings for Python"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://github.com/indygreg/python-zstandard/
-	https://pypi.org/project/zstandard/
-"
-SRC_URI="
-	https://github.com/indygreg/python-zstandard/archive/${PV}.tar.gz
-		-> ${MY_P}.gh.tar.gz
-"
-S=${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}
-
-LICENSE="BSD"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
-
-# TODO: figure out why zstd-1.5.7 breaks their hacky awful CFFI thingy
-DEPEND="
-	<app-arch/zstd-1.5.7:=
-"
-RDEPEND="
-	${DEPEND}
-	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
-		>=dev-python/cffi-1.14.0-r2:=[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	' 'python*')
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	test? (
-		dev-python/hypothesis[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	)
-"
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest
-
-src_prepare() {
-	# the C backend is repeatedly broken, so force CFFI instead
-	sed -e '/PYTHON_ZSTANDARD_IMPORT_POLICY/s:default:cffi:' \
-		-i zstandard/__init__.py || die
-	# unbundle zstd
-	rm zstd/* || die
-	> zstd/zstd.c || die
-	# it does random preprocessing on that, so we can't use #include
-	local f
-	for f in zdict.h zstd.h; do
-		cp "${ESYSROOT}/usr/include/${f}" "zstd/${f}" || die
-	done
-	sed -i -e '/include_dirs/a    libraries=["zstd"],' make_cffi.py || die
-
-	distutils-r1_src_prepare
-
-	DISTUTILS_ARGS=(
-		--no-c-backend
-	)
-}
-
-python_test() {
-	local EPYTEST_DESELECT=(
-		# unreliable, fails on x86
-		tests/test_data_structures.py::TestCompressionParameters::test_estimated_compression_context_size
-		# check for bundled zstd version, fails on other system zstd
-		tests/test_module_attributes.py::TestModuleAttributes::test_version
-	)
-
-	rm -rf zstandard || die
-	epytest
-}