diff --git a/dev-python/matplotlib2tikz/Manifest b/dev-python/matplotlib2tikz/Manifest
index 27b875ae8b5cf..30cbb805d65e3 100644
--- a/dev-python/matplotlib2tikz/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/matplotlib2tikz/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST matplotlib2tikz-0.6.14.tar.gz 525576 BLAKE2B e8190eca79b1b8fd1ae2852984ff2e5740b945fe541a39449906fb9da7cfa3a8be0a5ad8e22a6a35ce9e687e0c9a091a776a1e2534836b35ef48aa980eb46ccb SHA512 d69b5bbb3e5aa298fe38ca0599436e12a8cf7628936fc24a641fff38b4429e1117f2f239fc41338e8459f8be1be55d7607808ad171bc256eff1f76a69079ac1a
+DIST matplotlib2tikz-0.6.15.tar.gz 526046 BLAKE2B 4cc3585fe1a83c563fd00928843a16b4ba1ab2fecf8b662beaf40cd9e0211fb4fdb09c4bc4c1f110452621cf5d92f86bb492d0838be20693b86c3b4e9bd73566 SHA512 1f5b05319090d74fbd7ec99ad0e3f236f44107de2381d69e423f5878ba4c7666caca46ab87ae187f52f3ffa907cc4d75018b2ce6c9bcef44062e369f9a26be11
diff --git a/dev-python/matplotlib2tikz/matplotlib2tikz-0.6.15.ebuild b/dev-python/matplotlib2tikz/matplotlib2tikz-0.6.15.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{4,5} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1 virtualx
+
+DESCRIPTION="Convert matplotlib figures into TikZ/PGFPlots"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/nschloe/matplotlib2tikz"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/nschloe/matplotlib2tikz/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE="test"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-python/matplotlib[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/numpy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/pillow[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/six[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+DEPEND="dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? (
+		${RDEPEND}
+		dev-python/ImageHash[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-tex/pgf
+	)"
+
+# we have not succeeded in getting the tests to work yet ;-)
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+python_test() {
+	local -x MPLBACKEND=Agg
+	virtx py.test -v || die "Tests failed with ${EPYTHON}"
+}