diff --git a/dev-util/dialog/Manifest b/dev-util/dialog/Manifest
index 36f2657ef2332..e126f77719891 100644
--- a/dev-util/dialog/Manifest
+++ b/dev-util/dialog/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
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diff --git a/dev-util/dialog/dialog-1.3.20250817.ebuild b/dev-util/dialog/dialog-1.3.20250817.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..3b2d2ce1c173a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-util/dialog/dialog-1.3.20250817.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+MY_P=${PN}-$(ver_rs 2 -)
+VERIFY_SIG_OPENPGP_KEY_PATH=/usr/share/openpgp-keys/thomasdickey.asc
+inherit verify-sig
+
+DESCRIPTION="Tool to display dialog boxes from a shell"
+HOMEPAGE="https://invisible-island.net/dialog/"
+SRC_URI="https://invisible-island.net/archives/dialog/${MY_P}.tgz"
+SRC_URI+=" verify-sig? ( https://invisible-island.net/archives/dialog/${MY_P}.tgz.asc )"
+S="${WORKDIR}"/${MY_P}
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-2.1"
+SLOT="0/15"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86"
+IUSE="examples nls unicode"
+
+RDEPEND=">=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2-r5:=[unicode(+)?]"
+DEPEND="
+	${RDEPEND}
+	nls? ( sys-devel/gettext )
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-build/libtool
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+	verify-sig? ( sec-keys/openpgp-keys-thomasdickey )
+"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	sed -i -e '/LIB_CREATE=/s:${CC}:& ${LDFLAGS}:g' configure || die
+	sed -i '/$(LIBTOOL_COMPILE)/s:$: $(LIBTOOL_OPTS):' makefile.in || die
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	if [[ ${CHOST} == *-darwin* ]] ; then
+		export ac_cv_prog_LIBTOOL=glibtool
+	fi
+
+	econf \
+		--disable-rpath-hack \
+		--with-pkg-config \
+		--enable-pc-files \
+		$(use_enable nls) \
+		--with-libtool \
+		--with-libtool-opts='-shared' \
+		--with-ncurses$(usev unicode w)
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install-full
+
+	use examples && dodoc -r samples
+
+	dodoc CHANGES README
+
+	find "${ED}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
+}