diff --git a/dev-python/pydevd/Manifest b/dev-python/pydevd/Manifest
index e354506cf14d6..1698c91646fb4 100644
--- a/dev-python/pydevd/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/pydevd/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST pydev_debugger_2_7_0.tar.gz 4154343 BLAKE2B 6504ffa5eee5548a6aa9e59712b6c0054b69c2e0f6ff48059ed8b2e3edb92ec92ea4e7f9ff084419b46310c4d08f11008571cbf70ccc4efddd0fae688e4110f5 SHA512 8f09b446eeaace1f9ecd3d331813e8bd7d8e09e1fe9dc9fa955ecc26a97ac6015f7becc4005a87405d1154280ec10eb7fa87914bcd41f27e51d90ad3eb99f643
+DIST pydev_debugger_2_8_0.tar.gz 4171117 BLAKE2B 4f0ea0eeb228cb66f71e2046438396ff5ce59b42e620a067bc515ff504fa2da151e05f8ea6cf2d1aaa0768122431ccb45708a88c0616fb2859e96671b172e822 SHA512 b0189f1824b52f8ad35d1d1cfba0bd734806541ae2ff4f410c110763201630d296d10c2b7eaac8c656dfb3ff0f3c31bfdf2de28323778000cc7821e123a877d3
diff --git a/dev-python/pydevd/pydevd-2.8.0.ebuild b/dev-python/pydevd/pydevd-2.8.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..3b8e00c75fbc0
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+++ b/dev-python/pydevd/pydevd-2.8.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} )
+inherit distutils-r1 toolchain-funcs
+
+MY_P="pydev_debugger_${PV//./_}"
+
+DESCRIPTION="PyDev.Debugger (used in PyDev, PyCharm and VSCode Python)"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/fabioz/PyDev.Debugger/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/fabioz/PyDev.Debugger/archive/${MY_P}.tar.gz"
+S="${WORKDIR}/PyDev.Debugger-${MY_P}"
+
+LICENSE="EPL-1.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86"
+
+# After removing and recompiling the prebuilt lib the tests fail?
+# For some reason the test suite is executing a slightly different gdb command
+# then before, which is lacking the file name of the lib that was pre built:
+# gdb: No symbol table is loaded. Use the "file" command
+# This also happens outside of portage so it is not related to any *FLAGS
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+BDEPEND="
+	test? (
+		dev-python/untangle[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/numpy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/psutil[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+# Block against the version of debugpy that still bundles pydevd
+RDEPEND="
+	!<dev-python/debugpy-1.4.2
+	sys-devel/gdb
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+python_prepare_all() {
+	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
+
+	# Drop -O3 and -flto compiler args
+	sed -i \
+		-e 's/extra_link_args = extra_compile_args\[\:\]/pass/g' \
+		-e '/extra_compile_args/d' \
+		setup.py || die
+
+	# Clean up some prebuilt files
+	rm -r third_party || die
+	cd pydevd_attach_to_process || die
+
+	# Remove these Windows files
+	rm attach_{amd64,x86}.dll || die
+	rm inject_dll_{amd64,x86}.exe || die
+	rm run_code_on_dllmain_{amd64,x86}.dll || die
+	rm -r windows winappdbg || die
+
+	# Remove these MacOS files
+	rm attach_x86_64.dylib || die
+
+	# Remove these prebuilt linux files
+	rm attach_linux_{amd64,x86}.so || die
+
+	cd linux_and_mac || die
+	rm compile_mac.sh || die
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	pushd pydevd_attach_to_process/linux_and_mac || die
+	# recompile removed file (extracted from compile_linux.sh)
+	$(tc-getBUILD_CXX) ${CXXFLAGS} ${CPPFLAGS} -o "attach_linux_${ARCH}.so" \
+		${LDFLAGS} -nostartfiles attach.cpp -ldl || die
+	mv "attach_linux_${ARCH}.so" ../ || die
+	popd || die
+	python_foreach_impl distutils-r1_python_compile
+}
+
+python_install_all() {
+	distutils-r1_python_install_all
+	# Remove this duplicate that is installed directly to /usr/
+	# These files are also correctly installed to the python site-packages dir
+	rm -r "${ED}/usr/pydevd_attach_to_process" || die
+}