diff --git a/dev-perl/Text-WordDiff/Manifest b/dev-perl/Text-WordDiff/Manifest
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+DIST Text-WordDiff-0.09.tar.gz 26020 BLAKE2B ec8796fa571161799d0a6570915522f22ea05913e9c15a5cce4afd64414505ac529f6c96549b435ad56f4e15869e74f03058ed9b93dbb776b52ffeef8be29987 SHA512 4a3182a4b2ca8f904e88e59a6df3fb43607571af6c248b7c1063d1602e0ba93dd1baba0338ef1a1ba7aefcb9808e4c358880ac3f7fedd711e9001b6c9aa8341e
diff --git a/dev-perl/Text-WordDiff/Text-WordDiff-0.09.ebuild b/dev-perl/Text-WordDiff/Text-WordDiff-0.09.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DIST_AUTHOR=TIMK
+DIST_VERSION=0.09
+inherit perl-module
+
+DESCRIPTION="Track changes between documents"
+
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-perl/Algorithm-Diff
+	dev-perl/HTML-Parser
+	virtual/perl-Term-ANSIColor
+"
+BDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-perl/Module-Build
+	virtual/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker
+"
diff --git a/dev-perl/Text-WordDiff/metadata.xml b/dev-perl/Text-WordDiff/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>perl@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Gentoo Perl Project</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="cpan">Text-WordDiff</remote-id>
+    <remote-id type="cpan-module">Text::WordDiff</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>