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+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+# note the patch below
+DISTUTILS_USE_SETUPTOOLS=no
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{6,7,8} pypy3 )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Module for determining appropriate platform-specific dirs"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/ActiveState/appdirs"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/ActiveState/${PN}/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~x64-cygwin ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
+
+PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.4.4-distutils.patch )
+
+python_test() {
+	"${PYTHON}" test/test_api.py -v || die "Tests fail with ${EPYTHON}"
+}