diff --git a/dev-gap/sonata/Manifest b/dev-gap/sonata/Manifest
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+DIST sonata-2.9.6.tar.gz 1685036 BLAKE2B 3aeebfb1bca10b49e09220db0b33d1454b9536825030b027ecf8ba35645d764234b43adacd7e3ada8c4aaea25d6f19ca39672546e4e9347950ca0c310f23a7ed SHA512 fda8c4c2b9f22c971edc23fee8f47bc49973bf3864ce5ba29839566c1cd9e4c859323222e83303c86cb23c7139c931d8a087fab9fd6c6875519f1a087626cdcb
diff --git a/dev-gap/sonata/metadata.xml b/dev-gap/sonata/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+  <maintainer type="person">
+    <email>mjo@gentoo.org</email>
+  </maintainer>
+  <maintainer type="person">
+    <email>frp.bissey@gmail.com</email>
+    <name>François Bissey</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <maintainer type="project" proxied="proxy">
+    <email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <maintainer type="project">
+    <email>sci-mathematics@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Gentoo Mathematics Project</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <longdescription lang="en">
+    SONATA stands for "systems of nearrings and their applications." It
+    provides methods for the construction and the analysis of finite
+    nearrings:
+
+     * Methods for constructing all endomorphisms and all
+       fixed-point-free automorphisms of a given group.
+
+     * Methods for constructing the following nearrings of functions on
+       a group G: the nearring of polynomial functions of G (in the sense
+       of Lausch-Nöbauer); the nearring of compatible functions of G;
+       distributively generated nearrings such as I(G), A(G), E(G);
+       centralizer nearrings.
+
+       * A library of all small nearrings (up to order 15) and all small
+         nearrings with identity (up to order 31).
+
+       * Functions to obtain solvable fixed-point-free automorphism
+         groups on abelian groups, nearfields, planar nearrings, as well
+         as designs from those.
+
+       * Various functions to study the structure (size, ideals,
+         N-groups, ...) of nearrings, to determine properties of nearring
+         elements, and to decide whether two nearrings are isomorphic.
+
+       * If the package XGAP is installed, the lattices of one- and
+         two-sided ideals of a nearring can be studied interactively using
+         a graphical representation
+
+  </longdescription>
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="github">gap-packages/sonata</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-gap/sonata/sonata-2.9.6.ebuild b/dev-gap/sonata/sonata-2.9.6.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit gap-pkg
+
+DESCRIPTION="System of finite nearrings and their applications"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/gap-packages/${PN}/releases/download/v${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+GAP_PKG_EXTRA_INSTALL=( grp nr nri )
+gap-pkg_enable_tests