diff --git a/dev-lua/luassert/Manifest b/dev-lua/luassert/Manifest
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+DIST v1.7.9.tar.gz 34803 SHA256 e632e3f4819badc4906370242b652d5c912317e735b0ccc8c4d5c851591ff161 SHA512 4e1257bf7adaa9002af7c6ac15f2d042c9094ceeae9ce065c51296c663a99fa239ac8d37f106151100478cde8c68d3290b42588553ac681d183e7edef288414b WHIRLPOOL 0e9d848c3d7ae29dd444504814f3c4ba7d00994d766a3aea560e5a4cd8ee479dd35a64fe3b43b7ad6eaf869e70357658f6208e3f3aa5a729becb0bab3bb19aeb
diff --git a/dev-lua/luassert/luassert-1.7.9.ebuild b/dev-lua/luassert/luassert-1.7.9.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=5
+
+inherit toolchain-funcs
+
+DESCRIPTION="Lua Assertions Extension"
+HOMEPAGE="http://olivinelabs.com/busted/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/Olivine-Labs/luassert/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE=""
+
+COMMON_DEPEND=">=dev-lang/lua-5.1:="
+DEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
+virtual/pkgconfig"
+RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
+	>=dev-lua/say-1.2_p1"
+
+src_install() {
+	insinto "$($(tc-getPKG_CONFIG) --variable INSTALL_LMOD lua)"/${PN}
+doins -r src/*
+dodoc *.md
+}
diff --git a/dev-lua/luassert/metadata.xml b/dev-lua/luassert/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>
+		<email>williamh@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>William Hubbs</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription lang="en">
+		Adds a framework that allows registering new assertions
+		without compromising builtin assertion functionality.
+	</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>