diff --git a/dev-lua/mpack/mpack-1.0.8.ebuild b/dev-lua/mpack/mpack-1.0.8.ebuild
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-# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-
-inherit toolchain-funcs
-
-MY_PN="lib${PN}-lua"
-
-DESCRIPTION="Lua bindings for libmpack"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/libmpack/libmpack/"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/${MY_PN/-lua/}/${MY_PN}/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_PN}-${PV}"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~x86"
-IUSE="luajit test"
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	dev-libs/libmpack
-	luajit? ( >=dev-lang/lua-5.1:= )
-	!luajit? ( dev-lang/luajit:2= )
-"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
-BDEPEND="
-	virtual/pkgconfig
-	test? (
-		dev-lua/busted
-		${RDEPEND}
-	)
-"
-
-src_compile() {
-	local myemakeargs=(
-		"CC=$(tc-getCC)"
-		"LUA_INCLUDE=$($(tc-getPKG_CONFIG) --cflags $(usex luajit 'luajit' 'lua'))"
-		"LUA_LIB=$($(tc-getPKG_CONFIG) --libs $(usex luajit 'luajit' 'lua'))"
-		"USE_SYSTEM_MPACK=yes"
-		"USE_SYSTEM_LUA=yes"
-	)
-
-	emake "${myemakeargs[@]}"
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	if use luajit; then
-		# "[  FAILED  ] test.lua @ 279: mpack should not leak memory"
-		# It doesn't seem upstream actually support LuaJIT so were this up to me
-		# I would drop it from LUA_COMPAT, unfortunately there are packages in the
-		# tree which currently expect it to be supported.
-		ewarn "Not running tests under ${ELUA} because they are known to fail"
-		return
-	else
-		busted --lua=lua test.lua || die
-	fi
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	local myemakeargs=(
-		"DESTDIR=${ED}"
-		"LUA_CMOD_INSTALLDIR=$($(tc-getPKG_CONFIG) --variable INSTALL_CMOD $(usex luajit 'luajit' 'lua'))"
-		"USE_SYSTEM_MPACK=yes"
-		"USE_SYSTEM_LUA=yes"
-	)
-
-	emake "${myemakeargs[@]}" install
-
-	einstalldocs
-}