diff --git a/dev-python/smmap2/Manifest b/dev-python/smmap2/Manifest
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+++ b/dev-python/smmap2/Manifest
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+DIST smmap2-2.0.1.tar.gz 21948 SHA256 5c9fd3ac4a30b85d041a8bd3779e16aa704a161991e74b9a46692bc368e68752 SHA512 7c8d27c06befdabf65049e5e0bac5beb07c19ff398a343d953120b9cb1c9ed203232012f4b12180af20fa0dde8feb0d6e8af3e389932407688bcc345548f2501 WHIRLPOOL 973d82e6cd679a82189c617469cb4d749f12d56f8aa0d0cdac9177fb09ae71c3986200730a1b320479a4ee87e9796602f17aadf5b2e12f29d0e950ec9ebcbbbf
diff --git a/dev-python/smmap2/metadata.xml b/dev-python/smmap2/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>python@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Python</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="pypi">smmap2</remote-id>
+    <remote-id type="github">gitpython-developers/smmap</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/smmap2/smmap2-2.0.1.ebuild b/dev-python/smmap2/smmap2-2.0.1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{4,5,6} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="A pure python implementation of a sliding window memory map manager"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://pypi.python.org/pypi/smmap2
+	https://github.com/gitpython-developers/smmap"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE="test"
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? (
+		dev-python/nose[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)"
+RDEPEND=""
+
+python_test() {
+	nosetests -v || die "tests failed under ${EPYTHON}"
+}