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+This is a straight copy of Gentoo package, with no modifications at
+all. The reason for keeping it in overlay is that upstream plans to
+drop the package on 28th March, 2024.
+
+The package is needed only by the app-emulation/google-compute-engine
+package, which is quite old (version string mentions 2019), so work
+needs to be done to update it in order to drop the dependency on the
+obsolete boto package (Gentoo has dev-python/boto3 package).