diff --git a/dev-embedded/esptool/Manifest b/dev-embedded/esptool/Manifest
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+DIST esptool-1.3.tar.gz 34412 SHA256 f3fcf7f34d7c5467f29a43ddcd37e7c1d412f198bb8db928f50ed4cfc8da11f8 SHA512 7458dfb3818619b96ac1003349504feafe909f41bd5dfef1b482b45dd12cee55453b3cc60fbd05f342876dff97b17a487525d951283d69e355582c21d1acc14c WHIRLPOOL 06334c5dd2865d73cd74060a119cc44c0274ee51d5fc1460f1c5a4481f9869b1cf8f8e7f62577c893d3f27a6cf217019afaee521defb7185c2a4077df78d2892
diff --git a/dev-embedded/esptool/esptool-1.3.ebuild b/dev-embedded/esptool/esptool-1.3.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_4,3_5,3_6} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="A utility to communicate with the ROM bootloader in Espressif ESP8266"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/espressif/esptool"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE=""
+
+RDEPEND="dev-python/pyserial[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+
+RESTRICT="test" # Uses a device connected to the serial port
+
+python_test() {
+	${EPYTHON} test/test_esptool.py || die
+}
diff --git a/dev-embedded/esptool/metadata.xml b/dev-embedded/esptool/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>mrueg@gentoo.org</email>
+	  <name>Manuel Rüger</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="github">espressif/esptool</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>