diff --git a/app-emacs/wfnames/Manifest b/app-emacs/wfnames/Manifest
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+++ b/app-emacs/wfnames/Manifest
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+DIST wfnames-1.2.gh.tar.gz 16556 BLAKE2B 23f9066af22471a9a895e6a02f26c64655087c165996c731c98bfbed7c9ef17d8e9c8d080cebf59299ace96a075d9c404ce0569122d5d41288fe89842af2dbbc SHA512 3539818f35f7a59a4b3c0c80cce4a2f0788264074809abb82d299059631a2e7e3c0f54b3c7259210b9b7ed68a7a14c9d44e0a3d0bf33b017162c52f4ebf4fc1f
diff --git a/app-emacs/wfnames/metadata.xml b/app-emacs/wfnames/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+
+<pkgmetadata>
+  <maintainer type="project">
+    <email>gnu-emacs@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Gentoo GNU Emacs project</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <stabilize-allarches/>
+  <upstream>
+    <bugs-to>https://github.com/thierryvolpiatto/wfnames/issues/</bugs-to>
+    <remote-id type="github">thierryvolpiatto/wfnames</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/app-emacs/wfnames/wfnames-1.2.ebuild b/app-emacs/wfnames/wfnames-1.2.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2019-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit elisp
+
+DESCRIPTION="GNU Emacs mode to edit filenames, similar to wdired"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/thierryvolpiatto/wfnames/"
+
+if [[ "${PV}" == *9999* ]] ; then
+	inherit git-r3
+
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/thierryvolpiatto/${PN}.git"
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://github.com/thierryvolpiatto/${PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz
+		-> ${P}.gh.tar.gz"
+
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3+"
+SLOT="0"
+
+DOCS=( README.org )
+SITEFILE="50${PN}-gentoo.el"