diff --git a/dev-python/googleapis-common-protos/Manifest b/dev-python/googleapis-common-protos/Manifest
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-DIST googleapis-common-protos-1.56.4.tar.gz 109551 BLAKE2B 14886a639258c62442f1bd33959f303f280728584d1d2cb2c0f9666b1fd645b9166eea3c149d3081a36ca61b7c48ef0677760d0078f6c46f6c9ce3338d0664b6 SHA512 c4dc3d5390caf5b671b5cf091410d660a96e5e5df5b9584cc757cc5c6929dabd8456965a7721a7573fa28ba8143af8f4c30183193f2e735eb1e25b66b1e15d7c
diff --git a/dev-python/googleapis-common-protos/googleapis-common-protos-1.56.4-r1.ebuild b/dev-python/googleapis-common-protos/googleapis-common-protos-1.56.4-r1.ebuild
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-# Copyright 2020-2022 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} )
-
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="Python classes generated from the common protos in the googleapis repository"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://github.com/googleapis/python-api-common-protos/
-	https://pypi.org/project/googleapis-common-protos/
-"
-SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm ~arm64 x86"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	<dev-python/protobuf-python-5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/protobuf-python-3.15.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	!dev-python/namespace-google
-"
-
-python_compile() {
-	distutils-r1_python_compile
-	find "${BUILD_DIR}" -name '*.pth' -delete || die
-}
-
-# no tests as this is all generated code
diff --git a/dev-python/googleapis-common-protos/metadata.xml b/dev-python/googleapis-common-protos/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>chutzpah@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Patrick McLean</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project">
-		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Python</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<stabilize-allarches/>
-	<upstream>
-		<remote-id type="pypi">googleapis-common-protos</remote-id>
-		<remote-id type="github">googleapis/python-api-common-protos</remote-id>
-	</upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>