diff --git a/dev-python/pydotplus/Manifest b/dev-python/pydotplus/Manifest
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+DIST pydotplus-2.0.2.tar.gz 278677 SHA256 91e85e9ee9b85d2391ead7d635e3d9c7f5f44fd60a60e59b13e2403fa66505c4 SHA512 6f06a1f284401123a4514f9e9a4974dee8dc8d01e6b7c40a797fb70eed22b99fe774272f8b106b5632a33f524b356349fe1ff9633101ff61ef2fc3fe69d641ac WHIRLPOOL 5f0662c5f02a0e57ea7480ca3bbbc43d23b9690680bd37fcfe58645476656aee9d4336a5e77643ad2f34da0b5b97483ae012f24378e2642dc21887756110fa17
diff --git a/dev-python/pydotplus/metadata.xml b/dev-python/pydotplus/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">
+		PyDotPlus is an improved version of the old pydot project that provides a Python
+		Interface to Graphviz’s Dot language.
+	</longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="pypi">pydotplus</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/pydotplus/pydotplus-2.0.2.ebuild b/dev-python/pydotplus/pydotplus-2.0.2.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} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Improved version of the old pydot project"
+HOMEPAGE="http://pydotplus.readthedocs.org/"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/p/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE=""
+
+DEPEND="dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+#	test? (
+#		dev-python/flake8[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+#		dev-python/pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+#		dev-python/pytest-cov[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+#		dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+#		dev-python/sphinx_rtd_theme[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+#		dev-python/tox[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+#		)
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-python/pyparsing[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	"
+
+#test phase curently disabled, waiting on upstream to include
+#the required files:
+#https://github.com/carlos-jenkins/pydotplus/issues/12
+#python_test() {
+#	${EPYTHON} -m unittest discover || die
+#	tox
+#}