diff --git a/dev-libs/libphonenumber/Manifest b/dev-libs/libphonenumber/Manifest
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-DIST libphonenumber-8.12.38.tar.gz 11006968 BLAKE2B ff7802453124aa41a040f7d6d99f9025ac2444d5323bb342adb4c6123bfa4ebe65c29177d63dae224b892d382324f70096c7c01b86a023e9694cc15dbfecf47e SHA512 2c5d1fe9c92a44b7e7ad53a720d2ce2b59f6364059ebdd629b05759af033145ba11accf30ea1219a66610b4fc2eb585e2cb174a780e06d81db136353b8b8f9d0
diff --git a/dev-libs/libphonenumber/libphonenumber-8.12.38.ebuild b/dev-libs/libphonenumber/libphonenumber-8.12.38.ebuild
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-# Copyright 2021 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-
-CMAKE_MAKEFILE_GENERATOR=emake
-CMAKE_USE_DIR="${S}/cpp"
-inherit java-pkg-2 cmake
-
-DESCRIPTION="library for parsing, formatting, and validating international phone numbers"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/google/libphonenumber"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/google/${PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~x86"
-LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
-SLOT="0"
-
-DEPEND="
-	dev-libs/icu
-	dev-libs/protobuf
-	dev-libs/boost
-"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-
-BDEPEND="
-	dev-cpp/gtest
-	virtual/jdk
-"
-
-RESTRICT="test" # bug 668872
diff --git a/dev-libs/libphonenumber/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/libphonenumber/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>
-</pkgmetadata>