diff --git a/srcpkgs/turses/template b/srcpkgs/turses/template
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-# Template file for 'turses'
-pkgname=turses
-version=0.3.1
-revision=1
-build_style=python2-module
-short_desc="A Twitter client for the console"
-maintainer="Orphaned <orphan@voidlinux.org>"
-hostmakedepends="python-setuptools"
-depends="python-urwid python-future python-tweepy python-backports.configparser"
-license="GPL-3"
-homepage="https://pypi.org/project/turses/"
-distfiles="${PYPI_SITE}/t/turses/turses-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=46a61541d1acd1338561a198b3011081b91f118415c08b111444cdb24685b396
-archs=noarch
-
-pre_build() {
-	# The package isn't updated for a time and the dependencies have been updated
-	# the build will work but running the program will fail because dependency
-	# versions don't match
-	sed '/tweepy==/d' -i setup.py
-	sed '/urwid==/d' -i setup.py
-	sed '/future==/d' -i setup.py
-}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/turses/update b/srcpkgs/turses/update
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-ignore="v*"