diff --git a/dev-ros/hector_pose_estimation/files/hector_pose_estimation-0.3.0-pluginlib.patch b/dev-ros/hector_pose_estimation/files/hector_pose_estimation-0.3.0-pluginlib.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..a226c40e9fcea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-ros/hector_pose_estimation/files/hector_pose_estimation-0.3.0-pluginlib.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+From 6743fbe859981c2b52a2ab413175d7d2eaf33b47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Mikael Arguedas <mikael@osrfoundation.org>
+Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 15:08:45 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH] update to use non deprecated pluginlib macro
+
+---
+ hector_pose_estimation/src/pose_estimation_nodelet.cpp | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/hector_pose_estimation/src/pose_estimation_nodelet.cpp b/hector_pose_estimation/src/pose_estimation_nodelet.cpp
+index 7da3ca6..97ba5b0 100644
+--- a/hector_pose_estimation/src/pose_estimation_nodelet.cpp
++++ b/hector_pose_estimation/src/pose_estimation_nodelet.cpp
+@@ -55,4 +55,4 @@ class PoseEstimationNodelet : public PoseEstimationNode, public nodelet::Nodelet
+ } // namespace hector_pose_estimation
+ 
+ #include <pluginlib/class_list_macros.h>
+-PLUGINLIB_DECLARE_CLASS(hector_pose_estimation, PoseEstimation, hector_pose_estimation::PoseEstimationNodelet, nodelet::Nodelet)
++PLUGINLIB_EXPORT_CLASS(hector_pose_estimation::PoseEstimationNodelet, nodelet::Nodelet)
diff --git a/dev-ros/hector_pose_estimation/hector_pose_estimation-0.3.0-r1.ebuild b/dev-ros/hector_pose_estimation/hector_pose_estimation-0.3.0-r1.ebuild
index 7cc3dd4e6490a..284a8883bbab0 100644
--- a/dev-ros/hector_pose_estimation/hector_pose_estimation-0.3.0-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-ros/hector_pose_estimation/hector_pose_estimation-0.3.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=5
@@ -26,3 +26,5 @@ RDEPEND="
 "
 # dev-ros/hector_timing
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+
+PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-0.3.0-pluginlib.patch )