diff --git a/dev-python/oslo-middleware/Manifest b/dev-python/oslo-middleware/Manifest
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--- a/dev-python/oslo-middleware/Manifest
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@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST oslo.middleware-4.4.0.tar.gz 63935 BLAKE2B 36cd2f0c5e7ef17ae24eaa15fa64bbaf9e5d7e87475bea1d9170f7c29d1f6d946096638e5fc1d1af3a49137411654a73642a46ed47382bc77278ec24f59eb5c5 SHA512 6cbfb22ec4a513bed214de32924c370ac290ebc9c6dfd6e14b60035179695f49f623dffba9313d263f818c02eaed92596ba58912daf6289760570861307beaa5
diff --git a/dev-python/oslo-middleware/metadata.xml b/dev-python/oslo-middleware/metadata.xml
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@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-
-
-
-
- co-maintainers welcome
- lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com
- Alessandro Barbieri
-
-
- Oslo middleware library includes components that can be injected into wsgi pipelines to intercept request/response flows. The base class can be enhanced with functionality like add/delete/modification of http headers and support for limiting size/connection etc
-
-
-
- oslo.middleware
-
-
diff --git a/dev-python/oslo-middleware/oslo-middleware-4.4.0.ebuild b/dev-python/oslo-middleware/oslo-middleware-4.4.0.ebuild
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--- a/dev-python/oslo-middleware/oslo-middleware-4.4.0.ebuild
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-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_USE_SETUPTOOLS=bdepend
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{9..10} )
-
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="Components injected into wsgi pipelines to intercept request/response flows"
-HOMEPAGE="
- https://pypi.org/project/oslo.middleware/
- https://launchpad.net/oslo.middleware
- https://opendev.org/openstack/oslo.middleware
-"
-SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/oslo.middleware/oslo.middleware-${PV}.tar.gz"
-S="${WORKDIR}/oslo.middleware-${PV}"
-
-LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64"
-
-RDEPEND="
- >=dev-python/pbr-2.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
- >=dev-python/jinja-2.10[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
- >=dev-python/oslo-config-5.2.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
- >=dev-python/oslo-context-2.19.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
- >=dev-python/oslo-i18n-3.15.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
- >=dev-python/oslo-utils-3.33.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
- >=dev-python/stevedore-1.20.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
- >=dev-python/webob-1.8.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
- >=dev-python/debtcollector-1.2.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
- >=dev-python/statsd-3.2.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
- >=dev-python/bcrypt-3.1.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-"
-DEPEND="
- ${RDEPEND}
- test? (
- >=dev-python/fixtures-3.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
- >=dev-python/oslotest-3.2.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
- >=dev-python/testtools-2.2.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
- >=dev-python/oslo-serialization-2.18.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
- )
-"
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index 6a884fb8bd..04757e16c2 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ dev-python/ncclient
dev-python/os-testr
dev-python/oslo-cache
dev-python/oslo-metrics
-dev-python/oslo-middleware
# Julien Roy (2023-01-25)
# Requires