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+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=5
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{3,4,5} pypy )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Namespace for backported Python features"
+HOMEPAGE="https://bitbucket.org/brandon/backports https://pypi.python.org/pypi/backports/"
+SRC_URI="https://dev.gentoo.org/~radhermit/dist/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="PYTHON"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
+
+RDEPEND="!<dev-python/backports-lzma-0.0.2-r1"