diff --git a/dev-perl/XML-Descent/Manifest b/dev-perl/XML-Descent/Manifest
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+++ b/dev-perl/XML-Descent/Manifest
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+DIST XML-Descent-1.04.tar.gz 15212 SHA256 a711b856f8cdf5e647a44c71f967d48c096035b9dbd3f1efbdbea40605afbd50 SHA512 779a476907ecfbe9c279fa1f476c3aa64de626c515719643be21fef8b945cdd5c1f654a189bf7ea9a6964a88818e101e1eddc019439a5dcb397f56b13bdfa415 WHIRLPOOL 460f3ec11d7e7b3fe67e6f47da5e0aa08751d9505a5d5482a242f1249cab50fd7e87d7c910fe4c83470d9272a3ad7af3b2b57d061a662d28d756e2ea16022b78
diff --git a/dev-perl/XML-Descent/XML-Descent-1.40.0.ebuild b/dev-perl/XML-Descent/XML-Descent-1.40.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+DIST_AUTHOR=ANDYA
+DIST_VERSION=1.04
+inherit perl-module
+
+DESCRIPTION="Recursive decent XML parsing"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="test"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-perl/XML-TokeParser
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-perl/Module-Build
+	test? (
+		dev-perl/Test-Differences
+		virtual/perl-Test-Simple
+	)
+"
+src_test() {
+	perl_rm_files t/pod{,-coverage}.t
+	perl-module_src_test
+}
diff --git a/dev-perl/XML-Descent/metadata.xml b/dev-perl/XML-Descent/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="project">
+    <email>perl@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Gentoo Perl Project</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="cpan">XML-Descent</remote-id>
+    <remote-id type="cpan-module">XML::Descent</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>