diff --git a/dev-python/zope-testing/Manifest b/dev-python/zope-testing/Manifest
index 7c2261e45d8f3..ec8520b57b48b 100644
--- a/dev-python/zope-testing/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/zope-testing/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST zope.testing-5.0.1.tar.gz 41745 BLAKE2B c3ab3ba7a15a050a29e41c26df3426dc3dd48d98b60e55015680c6aa86fccbbf44718d17643189a1978c51605eb774c108e0056a1e21023b99ca633a2abd7788 SHA512 357d1c0eb761dba4e0e964a51dbc4368c00c9133a011467a2bb3629a2c5c28ccb3886caad215288b99cda1de25fd7ead674068f275649d94a32dc42d19d78caf
+DIST zope_testing-5.1.tar.gz 42344 BLAKE2B 5a4ca515dcdc80331ddfb731ea0152e4f1746aa6c097415bdc238d4d330523960aa211ffadf5eb76b85b483a21ee1d28da7b0068f05c9c202a3aeca4af61bc80 SHA512 e45053b2e3a8b3ecbe54bc18f1b6f4c274177aaaebd1385eac979bb245c8c25e8db28cb111d1d1a363bf9e2a153df97824074168a39b6c371ed6f68d902b40d2
diff --git a/dev-python/zope-testing/zope-testing-5.1.ebuild b/dev-python/zope-testing/zope-testing-5.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..19b0b2368176c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/zope-testing/zope-testing-5.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYPI_PN=${PN/-/.}
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..13} python3_13t pypy3 )
+
+inherit distutils-r1 pypi
+
+DESCRIPTION="Zope testing helpers"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://pypi.org/project/zope.testing/
+	https://github.com/zopefoundation/zope.testing/
+"
+
+LICENSE="ZPL"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	!dev-python/namespace-zope
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests unittest
+
+src_prepare() {
+	# strip rdep specific to namespaces
+	sed -i -e "/'setuptools'/d" setup.py || die
+	distutils-r1_src_prepare
+}
+
+python_compile() {
+	distutils-r1_python_compile
+	find "${BUILD_DIR}" -name '*.pth' -delete || die
+}
+
+python_test() {
+	cd "${BUILD_DIR}/install$(python_get_sitedir)" || die
+	distutils_write_namespace zope
+	"${EPYTHON}" - <<-EOF || die
+		import sys
+		import unittest
+
+		from zope.testing.tests import test_suite
+
+		runner = unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=2)
+		result = runner.run(test_suite())
+		sys.exit(0 if result.wasSuccessful() else 1)
+	EOF
+}