diff --git a/dev-python/diskcache/Manifest b/dev-python/diskcache/Manifest
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+++ b/dev-python/diskcache/Manifest
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+DIST diskcache-2.8.3.tar.gz 438587 SHA256 61ccc77a51a3e3b31abfb80de7163ba51ce09b1612e0d026f1c0457575c23002 SHA512 d96ac76dfb68cb817febd3f4ed8927a8409c02b13b4112a739528cade40f9a588c732dfc3148392dd12676380c3a2b006ee63b86f30ad70f5d205273003bf23d WHIRLPOOL 0ad78c98a64ae59661eb08c842cb363b42f076e856c1eca8c516bb6b14856c6391afc8a2d5e01bfe0e20fe88e20b8967dbd7cda51785e13e7c6b1dd9947930fd
diff --git a/dev-python/diskcache/diskcache-2.8.3.ebuild b/dev-python/diskcache/diskcache-2.8.3.ebuild
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index 0000000000000..8dba94ae6c0a7
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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} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.grantjenks.com/docs/diskcache/"
+DESCRIPTION="Disk and file backed cache"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${P:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
+IUSE="doc test"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-python/django[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+DEPEND="
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? (
+		${RDEPEND}
+		dev-python/mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/nose[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+	doc? ( dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+"
+
+python_compile_all() {
+	if use doc; then
+		emake -C docs html
+		HTML_DOCS=( docs/_build/html/. )
+	fi
+}
+
+python_test() {
+	nosetests -v || die "failed with ${PYTHON}"
+}
diff --git a/dev-python/diskcache/metadata.xml b/dev-python/diskcache/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">diskcache</remote-id>
+    <remote-id type="github">grantjenks/python-diskcache</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>