diff --git a/dev-python/u-msgpack/Manifest b/dev-python/u-msgpack/Manifest
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+DIST u-msgpack-2.1.tar.gz 6128 SHA256 66a39ddc6830be29b6d304dee9d4ab37104550ac4565eab1aa4c2bd3d34d759f SHA512 c1f52f57b30f69c9312ba10b9d3d15aab1cbb6259729fc470e31d5828dc0d74efdfa93990b8b85fe817e2831acb72b1f5b7a7c0555bb75ad53950336622ef8ed WHIRLPOOL a77a9ad4d978315cf9a047b892c264e44c3eff91feb98364cbf3b97f137cc142783e7d92d02b7f2fa9ba69d501a6187a4d6ba269c5c897a26748193d15e1f4b3
diff --git a/dev-python/u-msgpack/metadata.xml b/dev-python/u-msgpack/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>dol-sen@gentoo.org</email>
+		<description>Primary maintainer</description>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Python</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<maintainer>
+			<email>vsergeev@gmail.com</email>
+			<name>Vanya Sergeev</name>
+		</maintainer>
+		<remote-id type="pypi">u-msgpack-python</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+	<longdescription>
+		u-msgpack-python is a lightweight MessagePack serializer and
+		deserializer module written in pure Python, compatible with both Python
+		2 and Python 3, as well as CPython and PyPy implementations of Python.
+		u-msgpack-python is fully compliant with the latest MessagePack
+		specification. In particular, it supports the new binary, UTF-8 string,
+		and application-defined ext types
+	</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/u-msgpack/u-msgpack-2.1.ebuild b/dev-python/u-msgpack/u-msgpack-2.1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=6
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{4,5} pypy)
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+MY_PN="${PN}-python"
+MY_P="${MY_PN}-${PV}"
+
+DESCRIPTION="A portable, lightweight MessagePack serializer and deserializer"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/vsergeev/u-msgpack-python https://pypi.python.org/pypi/u-msgpack-python"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${MY_P:0:1}/${MY_PN}/${MY_P}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE=""
+
+DEPEND=""
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+S=${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}