diff --git a/dev-python/exdown/Manifest b/dev-python/exdown/Manifest
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+DIST exdown-0.7.0.tar.gz 4592 BLAKE2B 00d53d19a44775a486b2f2133dfc7956e0dc724397e4c2729ab20123aea4841b4f450d28d89b5ee93a540b775099e70d1eb4a9917bec88be784d916518b06c0d SHA512 25c99e219d722ba1280119b7affd4bc83aa2e3b83ad60f74a7dca24c0f64a14acd3d4a0b116474cc4a3d3e4507c7b1300d9afecc14d2e3f400a5d4234334c5ee
diff --git a/dev-python/exdown/exdown-0.7.0.ebuild b/dev-python/exdown/exdown-0.7.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2019-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{7,8,9} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1 virtualx
+
+DESCRIPTION="Extract code blocks from markdown"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/nschloe/exdown"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/nschloe/${PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	$( python_gen_cond_dep \
+		'dev-python/importlib_metadata[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]' python3_7 )
+"
+
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-python/wheel[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+python_prepare_all() {
+	# setup.py was removed in commit ddb8a613bbc8ba7d079c1b7abbca5ce2d53ef9d0
+	# for some reason, DISTUTULS_USE_SETUPTOOLS="pyproject.toml" is not working
+	# it complains about file not found, setup.cfg does exist
+	cat > setup.py <<EOF || die
+from setuptools import setup
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+	setup()
+EOF
+
+	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
+}
diff --git a/dev-python/exdown/metadata.xml b/dev-python/exdown/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="github">nschloe/exdown</remote-id>
+		<remote-id type="pypi">exdown</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>