diff --git a/dev-python/portend/Manifest b/dev-python/portend/Manifest
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+DIST portend-2.2.tar.gz 7974 BLAKE2B 77ffcf02b65f276a5ca1f1bdd76afd54e8f6afcb1c55b6948862017f973772dfe65c9b934ffbc98d2f36f799131d23d4a7128f46e46183010def8936f2dd0bad SHA512 1782132b0dec5b678892190b70ab795b1748dfa17e257b6655fc803f0cf19652725778cd329c3609353f969959501dd11fd2b9726cfcdf2c58689e2ce280c146
diff --git a/dev-python/portend/metadata.xml b/dev-python/portend/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>zmedico@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Zac Medico</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="pypi">portend</remote-id>
+		<remote-id type="github">jaraco/portend</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/portend/portend-2.2.ebuild b/dev-python/portend/portend-2.2.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{4,5,6} pypy pypy3 )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="TCP port monitoring utilities"
+HOMEPAGE="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/portend https://github.com/jaraco/portend"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/p/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="test"
+
+RDEPEND=">=dev-python/tempora-1.8[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/setuptools_scm-1.15.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? ( dev-python/pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )"
+
+python_test() {
+	py.test -v || die "tests failed under ${EPTYHON}"
+}