diff --git a/dev-python/requests/requests-2.8.0-r1.ebuild b/dev-python/requests/requests-2.8.0-r1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..07eb12ba8f9dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/requests/requests-2.8.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=5
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{3,4,5} pypy pypy3 )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="HTTP library for human beings"
+HOMEPAGE="http://python-requests.org/ https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${P:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86 ~x86-fbsd ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~x64-macos ~x86-macos"
+IUSE="test"
+
+# bundles dev-python/urllib3 snapshot
+RDEPEND="
+	app-misc/ca-certificates
+	>=dev-python/chardet-2.2.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/ndg-httpsclient[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/py-1.4.30[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/pyasn1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/pyopenssl[$(python_gen_usedep 'python*' pypy)]
+	"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? (
+		>=dev-python/pytest-2.8.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+	"
+
+# tests connect to various remote sites
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-2.2.0-system-chardet.patch
+	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-2.5.0-system-cacerts.patch
+)
+
+python_prepare_all() {
+	# use system chardet
+	rm -r requests/packages/chardet || die
+
+	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
+}
+
+python_test() {
+	"${PYTHON}" test_requests.py || die "Tests fail with ${EPYTHON}"
+}
diff --git a/dev-python/requests/requests-2.8.0.ebuild b/dev-python/requests/requests-2.8.0.ebuild
index b8ec01544cc93..e52bb48083295 100644
--- a/dev-python/requests/requests-2.8.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/requests/requests-2.8.0.ebuild
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 	dev-python/ndg-httpsclient[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=dev-python/py-1.4.30[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/pyasn1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/pyopenssl[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/pyopenssl[$(python_gen_usedep 'python*' pypy)]
 	"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]