diff --git a/dev-perl/PDL-IO-HDF/Manifest b/dev-perl/PDL-IO-HDF/Manifest
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+DIST PDL-IO-HDF-2.003.tar.gz 25409 BLAKE2B 95dabf7354a722d6cafd696a29be40027bb91b67f839da596bcb4f6434cb5f272932293b4a9c5282d6432aeafe15556d150268e953845c4a8a4265d91390ada4 SHA512 a96bcd5bf2663c421af717de431cf36dedadd210f80f81465099eb04a8bf43cae37733094d5603f76477633c30f1aa85bb5f5bfd91b0cd9da4ac3ceb1c79b747
diff --git a/dev-perl/PDL-IO-HDF/PDL-IO-HDF-2.3.0.ebuild b/dev-perl/PDL-IO-HDF/PDL-IO-HDF-2.3.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DIST_AUTHOR=ETJ
+DIST_VERSION=2.003
+
+inherit perl-module
+
+DESCRIPTION="A PDL interface to the HDF4 library"
+
+SLOT="0"
+#KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-perl/PDL-2.94.0
+"
+BDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-perl/Alien-HDF4
+	dev-perl/ExtUtils-Depends
+	virtual/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker
+"
diff --git a/dev-perl/PDL-IO-HDF/metadata.xml b/dev-perl/PDL-IO-HDF/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="project">
+    <email>perl@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Gentoo Perl Project</name>
+  </maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>