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+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{4,5,6} )
+PYTHON_REQ_USE="readline"
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Python WhatsApp library and CLI client"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup"
+
+if [[ "${PV}" == *9999 ]]
+then
+		inherit git-r3
+		EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/tgalal/${PN}.git"
+		KEYWORDS=""
+else
+		SRC_URI="https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+		KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+		S="${WORKDIR}/python-${P}"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE=""
+
+# we let depend axolotl on >=protobuf-3.1.0, so let's do
+# the same here (latest stable at 2018-02-14).
+RDEPEND=">=dev-python/axolotl-0.1.39[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/python-dateutil[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/pillow[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/configargparse[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-libs/protobuf-3.1.0
+	dev-python/pycryptodome[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/axolotl-curve25519[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/six[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+
+DOCS=( README.md )