diff --git a/dev-lua/lua-resty-memcached/Manifest b/dev-lua/lua-resty-memcached/Manifest
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+DIST lua-resty-memcached-0.17.tar.gz 21216 BLAKE2B 3b65a06d50fce5cc33d570e558e412446c649173e5e495bf1b8d00f63114fe451e9fb4f3284cd314cdfe9561f87291b45b32750c2a290e8d0f05b6996fa765fd SHA512 efc7164e01816133b24a60524078565fa4c5f4f1e22608e59d49bb825c8df459ecd315c434c390be2641d3fd55cdfd960f607ced63675cdcd11dd254196b1a63
diff --git a/dev-lua/lua-resty-memcached/lua-resty-memcached-0.17.ebuild b/dev-lua/lua-resty-memcached/lua-resty-memcached-0.17.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+# Openresty only ever supports luajit.
+LUA_COMPAT=( luajit )
+inherit lua-single
+
+DESCRIPTION="Lua memcached client driver based on cosocket API for ngx-lua-module"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-memcached"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-memcached/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz
+"
+
+LICENSE="BSD-2"
+SLOT="0"
+# Tests require replicating much of nginx-module_src_test() in each
+# dev-lua/lua-resty-* ebuild.
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+REQUIRED_USE="${LUA_REQUIRED_USE}"
+
+BDEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig"
+DEPEND="${LUA_DEPS}"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+src_configure() {
+	# The directory where to Lua files are to be installed, used by the build
+	# system.
+	export LUA_LIB_DIR="$(lua_get_lmod_dir)"
+	default
+}
diff --git a/dev-lua/lua-resty-memcached/metadata.xml b/dev-lua/lua-resty-memcached/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person" proxied="yes">
+		<email>zurabid2016@gmail.com</email>
+		<name>Zurab Kvachadze</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project" proxied="proxy">
+		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<bugs-to>https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-memcached/issues</bugs-to>
+		<remote-id type="github">openresty/lua-resty-memcached</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>