diff --git a/dev-python/xarray/Manifest b/dev-python/xarray/Manifest
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+DIST xarray-0.8.2.tar.gz 222454 SHA256 4da06e38baea65c51347ba0770db416ebf003dbad5637215d2b25b191f2be1fb SHA512 11a7295973cde998b043d22675b1d142b50ad5518f9dc320d6e6c770f3febb3b5f0ecf59b3caed73ae886994be15d497c10680e2df69eea862cf6d7c6726a867 WHIRLPOOL 02c3d17c7b0bd659f8e0aa8670909e7381cf2caeed9ae8df446681ca517f04d5f96f71a62e9b9079f7531c5ae9a7e8fef4045f581424b71e67eaaac7b7a7ffa7
diff --git a/dev-python/xarray/metadata.xml b/dev-python/xarray/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">xarray</remote-id>
+    <maintainer status="unknown">
+      <email>xarray@googlegroups.com</email>
+      <name>xarray Developers</name>
+    </maintainer>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/xarray/xarray-0.8.2.ebuild b/dev-python/xarray/xarray-0.8.2.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=6
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_{4,5}} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/pydata/xarray http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xarray"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${P:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
+IUSE="test"
+
+RDEPEND=""
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? (
+		dev-python/pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)"
+
+python_test() {
+	py.test -v -v || die
+}