diff --git a/dev-python/webencodings/metadata.xml b/dev-python/webencodings/metadata.xml
index e6e5198bd394e..4642c2dec1326 100644
--- a/dev-python/webencodings/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/webencodings/metadata.xml
@@ -9,10 +9,6 @@
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="pypi">webencodings</remote-id>
     <doc>https://pythonhosted.org/webencodings/</doc>
-    <maintainer status="unknown">
-      <email>simon.sapin@exyr.org</email>
-      <name>Simon Sapin</name>
-    </maintainer>
-    <remote-id type="github">SimonSapin/python-webencodings</remote-id>
+    <remote-id type="github">gsnedders/python-webencodings</remote-id>
   </upstream>
 </pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/webencodings/webencodings-0.5.1-r2.ebuild b/dev-python/webencodings/webencodings-0.5.1-r2.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..4880bd99460ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/webencodings/webencodings-0.5.1-r2.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# 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} pypy3 )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Character encoding aliases for legacy web content"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/gsnedders/python-webencodings/
+	https://pypi.org/project/webencodings/
+"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${P:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~loong ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~x64-macos"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+python_prepare_all() {
+	cat >> setup.cfg <<- EOF || die
+		[tool:pytest]
+		python_files=test*.py
+	EOF
+	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
+}