diff --git a/dev-python/pyxDamerauLevenshtein/Manifest b/dev-python/pyxDamerauLevenshtein/Manifest
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+DIST pyxDamerauLevenshtein-1.6.1.tar.gz 60737 BLAKE2B b03e80dadd7d748b2788a85b84bc0fe088905ace412b71302176a2cf5a23b1f109af50f7e5393b4dce42bfa99bebb2793376bf40e24b5ac4d3cc5e9076c1e899 SHA512 941c621035719e42402c59d7baa602b3147caf7564a4771e4e301c70e04534f72c21f13eb0e15f4382f5eae1aa149ba09e3223c6292588facce43d6cf4af91c8
diff --git a/dev-python/pyxDamerauLevenshtein/metadata.xml b/dev-python/pyxDamerauLevenshtein/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="person">
+		<email>andrewammerlaan@riseup.net</email>
+		<name>Andrew Ammerlaan</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="pypi">pyxDamerauLevenshtein</remote-id>
+		<remote-id type="github">gfairchild/pyxDamerauLevenshtein</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/pyxDamerauLevenshtein/pyxDamerauLevenshtein-1.6.1.ebuild b/dev-python/pyxDamerauLevenshtein/pyxDamerauLevenshtein-1.6.1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{7,8,9} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Implements the Damerau-Levenshtein edit distance algorithm for Python in Cython"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/gfairchild/pyxDamerauLevenshtein"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/gfairchild/${PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-python/cython[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/numpy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest