diff --git a/dev-python/Levenshtein/Levenshtein-0.22.0.ebuild b/dev-python/Levenshtein/Levenshtein-0.22.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_EXT=1
+# custom wrapper over setuptools
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=standalone
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..12} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Functions for fast computation of Levenshtein distance, and edit operations"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://pypi.org/project/Levenshtein/
+	https://github.com/maxbachmann/Levenshtein/
+"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/maxbachmann/Levenshtein/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz
+		-> ${P}.gh.tar.gz
+"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86"
+
+DEPEND="
+	>=dev-cpp/rapidfuzz-cpp-2.0.0
+"
+RDEPEND="
+	<dev-python/rapidfuzz-4.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/cython-3.0.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/scikit-build-0.13.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+src_prepare() {
+	# sterilize build flags
+	sed -i -e '/CMAKE_INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION/d' CMakeLists.txt || die
+
+	distutils-r1_src_prepare
+}
diff --git a/dev-python/Levenshtein/Manifest b/dev-python/Levenshtein/Manifest
index 95992709ee989..396670d389daf 100644
--- a/dev-python/Levenshtein/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/Levenshtein/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST Levenshtein-0.21.1.gh.tar.gz 36656 BLAKE2B b2e5325cd836b646d876fb59d1062c7bb415d707076d9692fff2b98e00dce29d813fb68c139283d66f8800fd836ec93b709ac7ebfaa6d9cca563b65c428019ef SHA512 5fd823e7871c53f521198275b7ebb3189f7208347d41f306686e11446397c4ed5b2672230cbfa76a0c2f1afcc08fd24c6c7468d808be2a09bb9c31c2d9f61f16
+DIST Levenshtein-0.22.0.gh.tar.gz 36726 BLAKE2B dec59ca80d0c40295a97adeb59f7946be3e38b3b29e7ec7345e07c0853e5817df6d98213e6d60bf4300a7998ee9754da5d266567aed0c543f8c82955b7821a39 SHA512 f762d6702dc3acbde1c545ec4ca3bb5c96ce256319c4cd045737fa9c7309f5fab7dca621a09b1fb6f89a925f505737cbde9c1f480d3c2f4a2b948b1b8083bbee