diff --git a/dev-python/namespace-jaraco/metadata.xml b/dev-python/namespace-jaraco/metadata.xml
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index 0000000000000..f3390d9bc05c6
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+++ b/dev-python/namespace-jaraco/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>sautier.louis@gmail.com</email>
+		<name>Louis Sautier</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Python</name>
+	</maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/namespace-jaraco/namespace-jaraco-1.ebuild b/dev-python/namespace-jaraco/namespace-jaraco-1.ebuild
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index 0000000000000..438cd5a499b97
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+++ b/dev-python/namespace-jaraco/namespace-jaraco-1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( pypy{,3} python{2_7,3_{4,5,6}} )
+inherit python-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Namespace package declaration for jaraco"
+HOMEPAGE="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Python/Namespace_packages"
+SRC_URI=""
+
+LICENSE="public-domain"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~amd64-fbsd ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86"
+IUSE=""
+
+RDEPEND="
+	!<dev-python/jaraco-logging-1.5.2
+	!<dev-python/jaraco-packaging-5.1
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	${PYTHON_DEPS}
+"
+DEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}"
+
+REQUIRED_USE="${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}"
+
+src_unpack() {
+	mkdir -p "${S}"/jaraco || die
+	cat > "${S}"/jaraco/__init__.py <<-EOF || die
+		__import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)
+	EOF
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	python_foreach_impl python_domodule jaraco
+}