diff --git a/dev-python/imageio/Manifest b/dev-python/imageio/Manifest
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+DIST imageio-1.5.tar.gz 187004 SHA256 6240f5e8391b34bdeacf23bdb8f70c7b578dc11dec1644a6ba81b4153ad512f4 SHA512 2913353c02a26236f254c6cefce72cb8179cedeac4e1ebae435218dddfc35cbec9e806eefe99e174ca9c572c09725a697e1165f6be0bbdc657a9fcf2312c7460 WHIRLPOOL 0960f559cd47dcb0eeca2133a8118004b7fed7250da0c9a776d6745558345a59682f103bf2159e71c6f6571bed90a3879fb95d10c2af69ef83d80afe6b6c3a61
diff --git a/dev-python/imageio/imageio-1.5.ebuild b/dev-python/imageio/imageio-1.5.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=6
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_4,3_5} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Python library for reading and writing image data"
+HOMEPAGE="https://imageio.github.io/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/imageio/imageio/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~x86 ~amd64"
+IUSE=""
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-python/numpy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	media-libs/freeimage
+	"
+DEPEND="
+	${RDEPEND}
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	"
diff --git a/dev-python/imageio/metadata.xml b/dev-python/imageio/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>horea.christ@gmail.com</email>
+		<name>Horea Christian</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription lang="en">
+		Imageio is a Python library that provides an easy interface to read
+		and write a wide range of image data, including animated images, 
+		video, volumetric data, and scientific formats. It is cross-platform,
+		runs on Python 2.x and 3.x, and is easy to install.
+	</longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">imageio/imageio</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>