diff --git a/dev-python/python-monascaclient/Manifest b/dev-python/python-monascaclient/Manifest
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+++ b/dev-python/python-monascaclient/Manifest
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+DIST python-monascaclient-1.2.0.tar.gz 66491 SHA256 5a711c8c783da5d966ca87b6e980add38276b8c99bf55f968c3f1a6febea9369 SHA512 203d91ad6533ba6281cc211d2da0cccd1c012bb7ca76412675ea5816ce1a00c28a6f2520a1b7b545029e8dc8fff08a2dbde391461ffd302868ec2343ef6c033d WHIRLPOOL b6d9ce8ef07ff7158fd4c92f360ad6ca82330337948e3bf2d7b78fced3faadbbc20485037fdad849aac57723abc7b80422d2616f08fd0ca9df07f0320a10a87f
diff --git a/dev-python/python-monascaclient/metadata.xml b/dev-python/python-monascaclient/metadata.xml
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+++ b/dev-python/python-monascaclient/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="person">
+		<email>prometheanfire@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Matthew Thode</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>openstack@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Openstack</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription lang="en">
+    This is a client for the OpenStack Monasca API.
+  </longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="pypi">python-monascaclient</remote-id>
+		<remote-id type="github">openstack/python-monascaclient</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/python-monascaclient/python-monascaclient-1.2.0.ebuild b/dev-python/python-monascaclient/python-monascaclient-1.2.0.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=( python2_7 python3_4 python3_5 )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="A client for the OpenStack Monasca API"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/openstack/python-monascaclient"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
+
+CDEPEND=">=dev-python/pbr-1.6[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+DEPEND="dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	${CDEPEND}"
+RDEPEND="
+	${CDEPEND}
+	>=dev-python/oslo-config-3.9.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/oslo-concurrency-3.5.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/oslo-i18n-2.1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/oslo-log-1.14.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/oslo-middleware-3.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/oslo-serialization-1.10.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/oslo-service-1.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/oslo-utils-3.5.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/python-keystoneclient-2.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	!~dev-python/python-keystoneclient-2.1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/Babel-2.3.4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/iso8601-0.1.11[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/prettytable-0.7[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	<dev-python/prettytable-0.8[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/pyyaml-3.1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/requests-2.10.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/six-1.9.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+
+python_prepare_all() {
+	# built in...
+	sed -i '/^hacking/d' test-requirements.txt || die
+	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
+}