diff --git a/dev-python/contextvars/Manifest b/dev-python/contextvars/Manifest
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+DIST contextvars-2.4.tar.gz 9253 BLAKE2B b46466e44f836561024b69bd648613654336a41f964ced77ab29e2fa20b43b19f0c6b5b72d31ccf208c8b74ad54fa1898ac1c09b24b124ec53a5970019910553 SHA512 391c12f163854a21d6422afd9464e8896c02b5cb5e2c567550907a16b7970d4e2d02cd360851bba103efd64062669596eacadc7421432198c61054837b57b223
diff --git a/dev-python/contextvars/contextvars-2.4.ebuild b/dev-python/contextvars/contextvars-2.4.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2019-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_6 )
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Backport of Python 3.7 contextvars module (PEP 567) for Python 3.6"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/MagicStack"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/MagicStack/${PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~ppc64 ~x86"
+
+RDEPEND="dev-python/immutables[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
diff --git a/dev-python/contextvars/metadata.xml b/dev-python/contextvars/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>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="pypi">contextvars</remote-id>
+		<remote-id type="github">MagicStack/contextvars</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>