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+# Copyright 1999-2015 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 pypy3 )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="The new features in unittest backported to Python 2.4+"
+HOMEPAGE="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/unittest2"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE=""
+
+CDEPEND="
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/linecache2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/six-1.4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/traceback2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+DEPEND="${CDEPEND}"
+RDEPEND="${CDEPEND}"
+
+PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}"/remove-argparse-dependence.patch )
+
+python_test() {
+	"${PYTHON}" -m unittest2 discover || die "tests failed under ${EPYTHON}"
+}