diff --git a/x11-plugins/lurch/Manifest b/x11-plugins/lurch/Manifest
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-DIST lurch-0.7.0.tar.gz 66885 BLAKE2B 1a3cc1dbfd8f999b677b23d02952a3c28c922d438cfe81a3bfd3a03cc49723fcc4d52a549bfc7ecb45616a0c939b0f78a39f73a4439bc5337d4da656e9d42b11 SHA512 082f85d25fbcb184b7b6d827e1e6bac073ad46064a144ca24245164558ca9e0cdfcdc4187ac3da5f8738e0476e759e67801d0fd24598b31e2d86053f8af576b6
diff --git a/x11-plugins/lurch/lurch-0.7.0.ebuild b/x11-plugins/lurch/lurch-0.7.0.ebuild
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-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-
-inherit toolchain-funcs
-
-DESCRIPTION="OMEMO encryption for libpurple (XEP-0384)"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/gkdr/lurch"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/gkdr/lurch/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-3"  # likely not GPL-3+, https://github.com/gkdr/lurch/issues/165
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86 ~arm ~arm64"
-IUSE="test"
-
-# NOTE: Some of these dependencies seem like leftovers in the build system
-#       and can probably be dropped with lurch >=0.7.1
-#       (https://github.com/gkdr/lurch/issues/164)
-RDEPEND="
-	dev-db/sqlite
-	dev-libs/glib
-	dev-libs/libgcrypt:=
-	dev-libs/libxml2
-	dev-libs/mxml
-	net-im/pidgin:=
-	net-libs/libaxc
-	net-libs/libomemo
-	>=net-libs/libsignal-protocol-c-2.3.2
-	"
-DEPEND="
-	${RDEPEND}
-	virtual/pkgconfig
-	test? ( dev-util/cmocka )
-	"
-
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-src_prepare() {
-	rm -Rv lib/{axc,libomemo} || die  # unbundle
-	default
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	local makeargs=(
-		CC="$(tc-getCC)"
-		LIBGCRYPT_CONFIG="$(tc-getPROG LIBGCRYPT_CONFIG libgcrypt-config)"
-		PKG_CONFIG="$(tc-getPKG_CONFIG)"
-		XML2_CONFIG="$(tc-getPROG XML2_CONFIG xml2-config)"
-	)
-	emake "${makeargs[@]}"
-}