diff --git a/dev-python/ratelimit/Manifest b/dev-python/ratelimit/Manifest
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+++ b/dev-python/ratelimit/Manifest
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+DIST ratelimit-1.4.1.tar.gz 10700 SHA256 2376d02963fe5b37e18d2d2e8d5b950b692c8d6fcd142cd3491ec716db472af5 SHA512 ab8a2cc95b852f91c614ba5a5a677d2b4b99d5f810ec8a11e69d97af58cef1f67457e1cf686a286073c85b39c2ebbeca0a459382e410c9e8eda12cecdda57f02 WHIRLPOOL 33e4e0bcb81ab2e83bddf081e70cec47a44ad3b5dbd058e0348506b49d9209b18761e33bd9843b2dfe1420eff97f3efbdbd063fec1599a4ab047bbac10df0714
diff --git a/dev-python/ratelimit/metadata.xml b/dev-python/ratelimit/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<longdescription lang="en">
+		ratelimit introduces a method decorator preventing a method from being
+		called more than once within a given time period. It prevents API providers
+		from banning your applications by conforming to set rate limits.
+	</longdescription>
+	<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>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">tomasbasham/ratelimit"</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/ratelimit/ratelimit-1.4.1.ebuild b/dev-python/ratelimit/ratelimit-1.4.1.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} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="An API rate limit decorator for Python"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/tomasbasham/${PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/tomasbasham/ratelimit"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="test"
+
+DEPEND="
+	test? (
+		dev-python/pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pytest-cov[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)"
+
+python_test() {
+	py.test || die
+}