diff --git a/sys-libs/libbacktrace/Manifest b/sys-libs/libbacktrace/Manifest
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+DIST libbacktrace-1.0_p20220226.tgz 665988 BLAKE2B 0d8aff7f6261446fabe713653896b0cf2fec2d3aec508423577182383a7deb359100579817eaf64d65848c49ce655d8f57cf67452f16e3c88559aeae28cafd95 SHA512 700cb1930c409e4f1fe99e46920e83ea2b359daaea9f96e2b73b81857dea895c0ade0fc2b4dbe6b7c94df7d494dcd80a9f6686d9acad8452ca59760aafa74c2f
diff --git a/sys-libs/libbacktrace/libbacktrace-1.0_p20220226.ebuild b/sys-libs/libbacktrace/libbacktrace-1.0_p20220226.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DESCRIPTION="C library that may be linked into a C/C++ program to produce symbolic backtraces"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/ianlancetaylor/libbacktrace"
+
+MY_COMMIT="2446c66076480ce07a6bd868badcbceb3eeecc2e"
+
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/ianlancetaylor/${PN}/archive/${MY_COMMIT}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tgz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+S=${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${MY_COMMIT}
+
+#RDEPEND=""
+#DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
diff --git a/sys-libs/libbacktrace/metadata.xml b/sys-libs/libbacktrace/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="person">
+  <email>dilfridge@gentoo.org</email>
+  <name>Andreas K. Huettel</name>
+</maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>