diff --git a/app-text/ebook-tools/files/ebook-tools-0.2.2-cmake4.patch b/app-text/ebook-tools/files/ebook-tools-0.2.2-cmake4.patch
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--- a/app-text/ebook-tools/files/ebook-tools-0.2.2-cmake4.patch
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@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- a/CMakeLists.txt	2012-09-04 16:32:32.000000000 +0200
-+++ b/CMakeLists.txt	2025-05-08 21:58:17.596985926 +0200
-@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
--project (EBOOK-TOOLS C)
-+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5.0)
- 
--cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.4.0)
-+project (EBOOK-TOOLS C)
- 
- #set(CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/src)
- set(LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH ${EBOOK-TOOLS_BINARY_DIR}/libs)