diff --git a/dev-util/codespell/Manifest b/dev-util/codespell/Manifest
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-DIST codespell-2.0.0.tar.gz 180131 BLAKE2B 9f7cf7b28f0c6981ec4c88909bee4d77dd4a35c9669a2f6aba368519ede85019b69bbbee2a83b17b5c8ca9cd197463ce13e5198a36c6e0f371b352453a82580f SHA512 ca9fc6661be77eddca1a5b3b15a72abc0506c61826487e8f50c546b923c065c6cbfb2b4c4bbace136d811e2e8cf2fe00106efcc3eb8805181ca6bd04fd4bf638
-DIST codespell-2.1.0.tar.gz 187490 BLAKE2B 6114aa3a7ad8cd37ab868a3f27f641501dd0cc5bfe80bef0aa5cad0a86f8e2bba6e1f1030d5ac6fb06f78f9e01e37359d0fc17d17eb54608060300f676d3d56c SHA512 16d9a4239ae18fad6a06825a2afae6adc903d50eb90b759cdc61b1e1d145458bbfb1385837c4465b0a9858da100be074c597343c4816ca0260bbf6710d9c84e8
diff --git a/dev-util/codespell/codespell-2.0.0.ebuild b/dev-util/codespell/codespell-2.0.0.ebuild
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-# Copyright 1999-2020 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="Check text files for common misspellings"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/${PN}-project/${PN}/archive/v${PVR}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-# Code licensed under GPL-2
-# Dictionary licensed under CC-BY-SA-3.0
-LICENSE="GPL-2 CC-BY-SA-3.0"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-
-python_prepare_all() {
-	# do not depend on pytest-cov
-	sed -i -e '/addopts/d' setup.cfg || die
-
-	# This will fail if the package itself
-	# is not yet installed
-	sed -i -e 's:test_command:_&:' \
-		codespell_lib/tests/test_basic.py
-
-	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
-}
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest
diff --git a/dev-util/codespell/codespell-2.1.0.ebuild b/dev-util/codespell/codespell-2.1.0.ebuild
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--- a/dev-util/codespell/codespell-2.1.0.ebuild
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-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{7..9} )
-DISTUTILS_USE_SETUPTOOLS=rdepend
-
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="Check text files for common misspellings"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/${PN}-project/${PN}/archive/v${PVR}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-# Code licensed under GPL-2
-# Dictionary licensed under CC-BY-SA-3.0
-LICENSE="GPL-2 CC-BY-SA-3.0"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-
-python_prepare_all() {
-	# do not depend on pytest-cov
-	sed -i -e '/addopts/d' setup.cfg || die
-
-	# This will fail if the package itself
-	# is not yet installed
-	sed -i -e 's:test_command:_&:' \
-		codespell_lib/tests/test_basic.py
-
-	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
-}
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest
diff --git a/dev-util/codespell/metadata.xml b/dev-util/codespell/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>waebbl-gentoo@posteo.net</email>
-	<name>Bernd Waibel</name>
-</maintainer>
-<longdescription lang="en">
-	A tool to fix common misspellings in text files. It's designed primarily
-	checking misspelled words in source code, but can be used with other
-	text files as well.
-</longdescription>
-<upstream>
-	<maintainer status="active">
-		<email>larson.eric.d@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Eric Larson</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<bugs-to>https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell/issues</bugs-to>
-	<remote-id type="github">codespell-project/codespell</remote-id>
-</upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>