diff --git a/dev-libs/jose/Manifest b/dev-libs/jose/Manifest
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+DIST jose-14.tar.gz 843394 BLAKE2B 6cb31f2557e7799d213cc298c196324f755bee0ce74a4a2eb11a8350bc4a2159bdd7b80a653feb924e2d8a1e538a661d729dca916e650eba53f0918e8d5eaa1a SHA512 b27fb5a4afbe625e91ddd13e2d3832e7741d6be522aa882cfb83df9689e6fd9e7c824c531690a193bef441b9aa275fdb2912a8181b060d848064a1794277d786
diff --git a/dev-libs/jose/jose-14.ebuild b/dev-libs/jose/jose-14.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2022-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit meson
+
+DESCRIPTION="C-language implementation of Javascript Object Signing and Encryption"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/latchset/jose"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/latchset/jose/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-libs/jansson
+	dev-libs/openssl:=
+	sys-libs/zlib
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+	app-text/asciidoc
+"
diff --git a/dev-libs/jose/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/jose/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>salah.coronya@gmail.com</email>
+		<name>Christopher Byrne</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="person" proxied="yes">
+		<email>julien@jroy.ca</email>
+		<name>Julien Roy</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project" proxied="proxy">
+		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">latchset/jose</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>