diff --git a/dev-python/hdf5storage/Manifest b/dev-python/hdf5storage/Manifest
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-DIST hdf5storage-0.1.19.tar.gz 100839 BLAKE2B fe7845fb22da48017f3321fc618348242f2640a70cfdc54605be78b577e7cac44a20e53e7da8422b9740a3d71c144312f3c8822f7f00595ddfa83c83d8fb7ff3 SHA512 2b34135f735c8cffb699a9918d2b78237d34c7d5d160a30a41c8d6621de12f4b54ab90e8007c026cf2df3b4024b48f4bf8b39159987e5805c183588391bed613
diff --git a/dev-python/hdf5storage/hdf5storage-0.1.19-r1.ebuild b/dev-python/hdf5storage/hdf5storage-0.1.19-r1.ebuild
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-# Copyright 2020-2024 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI="8"
-
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..12} )
-inherit distutils-r1 pypi
-
-DESCRIPTION="Python library for using HDF5 formatted files, incl. MAT files"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://github.com/frejanordsiek/hdf5storage
-	https://pythonhosted.org/hdf5storage/
-	https://pypi.org/project/hdf5storage/
-"
-
-LICENSE="BSD-2"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64"
-IUSE="doc"
-# Tests need nose which is getting cleaned from main tree.
-RESTRICT="test"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	dev-python/h5py[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/numpy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	app-arch/unzip
-	doc? ( dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
-"
diff --git a/dev-python/hdf5storage/metadata.xml b/dev-python/hdf5storage/metadata.xml
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-<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>nils.freydank@posteo.de</email>
-		<name>Nils Freydank</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<upstream>
-		<remote-id type="github">frejanordsiek/hdf5storage</remote-id>
-		<remote-id type="pypi">hdf5storage</remote-id>
-	</upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>
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 # <reason>
 # Removal after <LANG=C date -u -d1month "+%Y-%m-%d">.
 
-# Nils Freydank <nils.freydank@posteo.de> (2024-12-08)
-# I don't use the software anymore.
-# Open issues:
-#  - not ported to numpy 2 yet:
-#    https://github.com/frejanordsiek/hdf5storage/pull/134
-#  - test framework was switched to numpy from nose,
-#    but there is no release yet
-#  - some tests need julia, some matlab
-#  - upstream seems inactive
-# Removal after 2025-01-08.
-dev-python/hdf5storage
-
 # Nils Freydank <nils.freydank@posteo.de> (2024-12-25)
 # I don't use the software anymore.
 # Removal after 2025-01-25.