diff --git a/dev-python/inotify_simple/Manifest b/dev-python/inotify_simple/Manifest
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+DIST inotify_simple-1.3.5.tar.gz 8534 BLAKE2B bda4abce55277d8502ed47b07d3ab0fc4202bf191c1c98d12614671196f4b43c818c23d0ffeed1637f154d39cf97477b92abdea686d9bf130947407938b3d550 SHA512 a2f837ef123ae149c3e203e2d7c7e567214792c7ee3d54b6e36292822e6b9c476c754554ee1109f9ada3dcf3f615024f191aa903b54a875fa6d89f68669999bf
diff --git a/dev-python/inotify_simple/inotify_simple-1.3.5.ebuild b/dev-python/inotify_simple/inotify_simple-1.3.5.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_9 )
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="simple Python wrapper around inotify"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/chrisjbillington/inotify_simple"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/chrisjbillington/inotify_simple/archive/refs/tags/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+DEPEND=""
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+BDEPEND=""
diff --git a/dev-python/inotify_simple/metadata.xml b/dev-python/inotify_simple/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>python@gentoo.org</email>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>zerochaos@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos)</name>
+	</maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>