diff --git a/dev-python/googleapis-common-protos/Manifest b/dev-python/googleapis-common-protos/Manifest
index 3fd1e1e8e0109..f2f91267836ce 100644
--- a/dev-python/googleapis-common-protos/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/googleapis-common-protos/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST googleapis-common-protos-1.60.0.tar.gz 119801 BLAKE2B 68d5940f7d5d9c9f45b715b3cb4e716fda06a727c9da0569802a6ac509c3227ae2f13104abfa6763317a89ec2e5875051deb7eec28ba71dbbb13c0239e5decd8 SHA512 ad20a4cb74308f22835cbc5c9dfd82153dd8265424ee7dc604b610bc6db6f46f154e4f5d8c74c01d4c503d3e2c9095a090d9548a5ec13b4b3044274f6b9b5a4b
+DIST googleapis-common-protos-1.61.0.tar.gz 121129 BLAKE2B f7fa2bc1061bd7cba5db4327925ac221fff859a1077b177dd9606cb1d85ef42796a3c2fd6b9834d195a1d3d0638f07a735f64a9e4abd4b95b602f8f53a36d77d SHA512 2aac51d0ea414532f1b5991ad8d484a48d44682e1354deec4d1bb5a96d401a9f9983e613beea91d49c058d95a2d289be932229765c66c1fee18df5d8e9e873f2
diff --git a/dev-python/googleapis-common-protos/googleapis-common-protos-1.61.0.ebuild b/dev-python/googleapis-common-protos/googleapis-common-protos-1.61.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..173ea3bc49007
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/googleapis-common-protos/googleapis-common-protos-1.61.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+# Copyright 2020-2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYPI_NO_NORMALIZE=1
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..11} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1 pypi
+
+DESCRIPTION="Python classes generated from the common protos in the googleapis repository"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/googleapis/python-api-common-protos/
+	https://pypi.org/project/googleapis-common-protos/
+"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~x86"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	<dev-python/protobuf-python-5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/protobuf-python-3.15.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	!dev-python/namespace-google
+"
+
+python_compile() {
+	distutils-r1_python_compile
+	find "${BUILD_DIR}" -name '*.pth' -delete || die
+}
+
+# no tests as this is all generated code