diff --git a/dev-python/readme_renderer/Manifest b/dev-python/readme_renderer/Manifest
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+DIST readme_renderer-17.2.tar.gz 14643 SHA256 9deab442963a63a71ab494bf581b1c844473995a2357f4b3228a1df1c8cba8da SHA512 2c25eb24b04b88fa8522ff0068e3a3a7b57b035641d0053ff93c295dde50cc6f21af9eeca1061eef794f52b0aff184f97c95b3c232f02b308e09682e50a6d40e WHIRLPOOL b9bcbdfc5778e83b7f4aadaf764895f4263af60f98febac89acafa928dc28e4fbd1022e7660abe2051807df2154dd04bea9d3533fa9fa5cb67a9897853a5caa4
diff --git a/dev-python/readme_renderer/metadata.xml b/dev-python/readme_renderer/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">readme_renderer</remote-id>
+    <remote-id type="github">pypa/readme_renderer</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/readme_renderer/readme_renderer-17.2.ebuild b/dev-python/readme_renderer/readme_renderer-17.2.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{4,5,6} pypy{,3} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="a library for rendering \"readme\" descriptions for Warehouse"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/pypa/readme_renderer https://pypi.python.org/pypi/readme_renderer"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~hppa"
+IUSE="test"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/bleach-2.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/docutils-0.13.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/pygments[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/six[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? ( dev-python/pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+"
+
+DOCS=( README.rst )
+
+python_test() {
+	py.test || die "Tests failed under ${EPYTHON}"
+}