diff --git a/dev-python/python-novaclient/Manifest b/dev-python/python-novaclient/Manifest
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-DIST python-novaclient-17.5.0.tar.gz 332955 BLAKE2B 16b2bfbb43899af28db8de34936d54314fc0b7ec79b353bdf9fa7a32bf1fc1ce487c224ec53552ebe399eac43c019b44cbf354b55614a9e3bd7d1e07651e7692 SHA512 3ae483c0d6c6f3699f346d27dc0bb98dfb4b8298888ded999b605a1c4bd1eda67e9a0991a40223eed4a19398dff8eeb06878ec514058fac6aafde722bfaa881e
diff --git a/dev-python/python-novaclient/metadata.xml b/dev-python/python-novaclient/metadata.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="person">
-    <email>prometheanfire@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>Matthew Thode</name>
-  </maintainer>
-  <maintainer type="project">
-    <email>openstack@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>Openstack</name>
-  </maintainer>
-  <longdescription lang="en">
-    This is a client for the OpenStack Nova API.
-  There's a Python API (the novaclient module),
-  and a command-line script (nova).
-  Each implements 100% of the OpenStack Nova API.
-  </longdescription>
-  <stabilize-allarches/>
-  <upstream>
-    <remote-id type="pypi">python-novaclient</remote-id>
-    <remote-id type="github">openstack/python-novaclient</remote-id>
-  </upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/python-novaclient/python-novaclient-17.5.0.ebuild b/dev-python/python-novaclient/python-novaclient-17.5.0.ebuild
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-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{7..9} )
-DISTUTILS_USE_SETUPTOOLS=rdepend
-
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="A client for the OpenStack Nova API"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/openstack/python-novaclient"
-SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
-IUSE=""
-
-CDEPEND=">=dev-python/pbr-2.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	!~dev-python/pbr-2.1.0"
-DEPEND="${CDEPEND}"
-RDEPEND="
-	>=dev-python/keystoneauth-3.5.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/iso8601-0.1.11[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/oslo-i18n-3.15.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/oslo-serialization-1.18.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	!~dev-python/oslo-serialization-2.19.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/oslo-utils-3.33.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/prettytable-0.7.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/stevedore-2.0.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"