diff --git a/dev-python/packaging/Manifest b/dev-python/packaging/Manifest
index fa92e01047413..e17cbd33ec893 100644
--- a/dev-python/packaging/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/packaging/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST packaging-24.2.tar.gz 163950 BLAKE2B 8610f22a05a71a38bafe5e7ae12c549a4395f751585ab2056eb5ca1c76db3d4bc9dc452eafac4209a87e8ef54577c35529873fa25b8a43b454164298c203aae7 SHA512 4d79d9c49c59255e9eb12cb1452ff9ee413a6a6f34a23c487d3d5712ddabe067f8c6dafe0c8111517682634deac2fd5db1346e3c0cc9f432eba94491aa459553
+DIST packaging-25.0.tar.gz 165727 BLAKE2B ad665526339ccc63bbca1e21649f773e626b13f984f0800c6362d5642e8de701d88f7793015bc406f3dc39fa6ce2784f099f925b08d7b5c1d3614d390470080c SHA512 0672602d2e18c3aee71b3e567b0de572bc8613ee3d24a79a655ded23ac08ec4582193225bc0c0ea390ed81cf5efbb46e8afbe0798d14f2235f811f263c25728c
diff --git a/dev-python/packaging/packaging-25.0.ebuild b/dev-python/packaging/packaging-25.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..1aab3809831df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/packaging/packaging-25.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+# please keep this ebuild at EAPI 8 -- sys-apps/portage dep
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=flit
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..13} python3_13t pypy3 pypy3_11 )
+
+inherit distutils-r1 pypi
+
+DESCRIPTION="Core utilities for Python packages"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/pypa/packaging/
+	https://pypi.org/project/packaging/
+"
+
+LICENSE="|| ( Apache-2.0 BSD-2 )"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~arm64-macos ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	!<dev-python/setuptools-67
+"
+DEPEND="
+	test? (
+		dev-python/pretend[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+python_test() {
+	epytest --capture=no
+}