diff --git a/dev-ml/unidecode/Manifest b/dev-ml/unidecode/Manifest
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+++ b/dev-ml/unidecode/Manifest
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+DIST unidecode-0.4.0.tar.gz 20571 BLAKE2B 864888e1f3db1a784f847f49584fcb6da93ad30066b8ea5764395b25d3d86c47749a98d13771107dbd6c68dacb2ff4e6e2cb9370e8adb35d84e8149b93122ccd SHA512 a411685ddb1d52585251eff3e2cd56fc9b4e91dcfceff424d7cfd5f721be73561d7a8e9223ecaeeda6178b02e5f6df74d50a49d4ce61d72a7d3fa1e8aefe5cf3
diff --git a/dev-ml/unidecode/metadata.xml b/dev-ml/unidecode/metadata.xml
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+++ b/dev-ml/unidecode/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>tupone@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Alfredo Tupone</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">geneweb/unidecode</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-ml/unidecode/unidecode-0.4.0.ebuild b/dev-ml/unidecode/unidecode-0.4.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2019-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit dune
+
+DESCRIPTION="Unicode text normalization"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/geneweb/unidecode"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/geneweb/${PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz
+	-> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3"
+SLOT="0/${PV}"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="+ocamlopt"
+
+DEPEND=""
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+BDEPEND=""