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+# Copyright 2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{6,7,8,9} )
+DISTUTILS_SINGLE_IMPL=1
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Utility to communicate with the ROM bootloader in Espressif ESP8266 and ESP32"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/espressif/esptool"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/espressif/${PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~x86"
+IUSE="test"
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
+		dev-python/ecdsa[${PYTHON_MULTI_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pyaes[${PYTHON_MULTI_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/pyserial-3.0[${PYTHON_MULTI_USEDEP}]
+	')
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	test? ( $(python_gen_cond_dep 'dev-python/pyelftools[${PYTHON_MULTI_USEDEP}]') )
+"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	rm -rf pyaes/ ecdsa/ || die "unable to remove bundled modules"
+	default
+}
+
+python_test() {
+	${EPYTHON} test/test_imagegen.py || die "imagegen test failed with ${EPYTHON}"
+	${EPYTHON} test/test_espsecure.py || die "espsecure test failed with ${EPYTHON}"
+}