diff --git a/net-im/cawbird/Manifest b/net-im/cawbird/Manifest
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-DIST cawbird-1.4.2.tar.gz 653216 BLAKE2B c05008a310152c5d190233a7251cf0ca7104f5ca564a1c0f2ac06fb23ded9eb6429965624ae7b7a0b0b763db19ebcb159a138cbed8dac36c3fcaa56d2ead62ee SHA512 409d2b838b9c14c45fb6aa2b04dc1ccaaf76baab7394d630d254dc9a4001f7f53321b88f600e2c3f9c39e19da38dd717f46abb4a63b11696f41e61b9ab8e6452
diff --git a/net-im/cawbird/cawbird-1.4.2.ebuild b/net-im/cawbird/cawbird-1.4.2.ebuild
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-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-VALA_USE_DEPEND="vapigen"
-
-inherit vala meson xdg
-
-DESCRIPTION="Cawbird is a fork of the Corebird Twitter client from Baedert."
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/IBBoard/cawbird"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/IBBoard/cawbird/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-3"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~x86"
-IUSE="+X gstreamer spell"
-
-DEPEND="
-	dev-db/sqlite:3
-	dev-libs/glib:2
-	dev-libs/json-glib
-	net-libs/libsoup:2.4
-	net-libs/liboauth
-	media-plugins/gst-plugins-libav
-	sys-devel/gettext
-	x11-libs/gtk+:3
-	X? ( x11-libs/libX11 )
-	gstreamer? (
-		media-libs/gst-plugins-base
-		media-libs/gst-plugins-bad
-	)
-	spell? ( app-text/gspell )
-"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-BDEPEND="
-	$(vala_depend)
-	dev-libs/gobject-introspection
-"
-
-src_configure() {
-	local emesonargs=(
-		$(meson_use X x11)
-		$(meson_use gstreamer video)
-		$(meson_use spell spellcheck)
-		-Dconsumer_key_base64=VmY5dG9yRFcyWk93MzJEZmhVdEk5Y3NMOA==
-		-Dconsumer_secret_base64=MThCRXIxbWRESDQ2Y0podzVtVU13SGUyVGlCRXhPb3BFRHhGYlB6ZkpybG5GdXZaSjI=
-	)
-	meson_src_configure
-}
diff --git a/net-im/cawbird/metadata.xml b/net-im/cawbird/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>gjdijkman@gjdwebserver.nl</email>
-		<name>Gerben Jan Dijkman</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<longdescription lang="en">
-	Cawbird is a fork of the Corebird Twitter client from Baedert, which became unsupported after Twitter disabled the streaming API.
-
-	Cawbird works with the new APIs and includes a few fixes and modifications that have historically been patched in to IBBoard's custom Corebird build on his personal Open Build Service account.
-	</longdescription>
-	<upstream>
-		<doc>https://github.com/IBBoard/cawbird</doc>
-		<bugs-to>https://github.com/IBBoard/cawbird/issues</bugs-to>
-	</upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>