diff --git a/dev-python/dulwich/Manifest b/dev-python/dulwich/Manifest
index d1d4cdbf7a5c3..7cacc42640d17 100644
--- a/dev-python/dulwich/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/dulwich/Manifest
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diff --git a/dev-python/dulwich/dulwich-1.2.12.ebuild b/dev-python/dulwich/dulwich-1.2.12.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..5492e7f09fd32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/dulwich/dulwich-1.2.12.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+CARGO_OPTIONAL=1
+DISTUTILS_EXT=1
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYPI_VERIFY_REPO=https://github.com/jelmer/dulwich
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{12..14} )
+
+RUST_MIN_VER="1.85.0"
+CRATES="
+	bstr@1.12.3
+	heck@0.5.0
+	libc@0.2.186
+	memchr@2.8.2
+	once_cell@1.21.4
+	portable-atomic@1.13.1
+	proc-macro2@1.0.106
+	pyo3-build-config@0.29.0
+	pyo3-ffi@0.29.0
+	pyo3-macros-backend@0.29.0
+	pyo3-macros@0.29.0
+	pyo3@0.29.0
+	quote@1.0.46
+	serde_core@1.0.228
+	serde_derive@1.0.228
+	similar@3.1.1
+	syn@2.0.118
+	target-lexicon@0.13.5
+	unicode-ident@1.0.24
+"
+
+inherit cargo distutils-r1 pypi
+
+DESCRIPTION="Pure-Python implementation of the Git file formats and protocols"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/jelmer/dulwich/
+	https://pypi.org/project/dulwich/
+"
+SRC_URI+="
+	native-extensions? (
+		${CARGO_CRATE_URIS}
+	)
+"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2+ Apache-2.0"
+LICENSE+=" native-extensions? ("
+# Dependent crate licenses
+LICENSE+="
+	Apache-2.0 Apache-2.0-with-LLVM-exceptions Unicode-3.0
+	|| ( MIT Unlicense )
+"
+LICENSE+=" )"
+
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~loong ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~x86 ~arm64-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
+IUSE="doc examples +native-extensions test"
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/urllib3-2.2.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
+		>=dev-python/typing-extensions-4.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	' 3.11)
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	native-extensions? (
+		${RUST_DEPEND}
+		dev-python/setuptools-rust[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+	test? (
+		${RDEPEND}
+		dev-python/fastimport[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/gpgmepy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/hypothesis-6[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/merge3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/paramiko[${PYTHON_USEDEP},server(+)]
+	)
+"
+
+distutils_enable_sphinx docs
+
+QA_FLAGS_IGNORED="usr/lib.*/py.*/site-packages/dulwich/_.*.so"
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	# avoid rust_pkg_setup which will die when there's no Rust found
+	if use native-extensions ; then
+		rust_pkg_setup  # implicitly inherited through cargo
+	fi
+}
+
+src_unpack() {
+	pypi_src_unpack
+	cargo_src_unpack
+}
+
+python_compile() {
+	# make extension build errors fatal
+	local -x CIBUILDWHEEL=1
+	unset PURE
+	if ! use native-extensions; then
+		local -x PURE=1
+	fi
+
+	distutils-r1_python_compile
+}
+
+python_test() {
+	# remove interference from the tests that do stuff like user.name
+	unset GIT_AUTHOR_NAME GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL GIT_AUTHOR_DATE
+	unset GIT_COMMITTER_NAME GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL GIT_COMMITTER_DATE
+	unset EMAIL
+	# Do not use make check which rebuilds the extension and uses -Werror,
+	# causing unexpected failures.
+	"${EPYTHON}" -m unittest -v tests.test_suite ||
+		die "tests failed with ${EPYTHON}"
+}
+
+python_install_all() {
+	if use examples; then
+		docompress -x "/usr/share/doc/${PF}/examples"
+		dodoc -r examples
+	fi
+	distutils-r1_python_install_all
+}