diff --git a/dev-libs/libserdes/Manifest b/dev-libs/libserdes/Manifest
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+DIST libserdes-5.4.0.tar.gz 62331 BLAKE2B 01f06004e1af2374a9d5d039b9d0a8d53bc1e61bfd4bcc6ae1a4794553903140b73373d7e9d8799069df7369219c579b30b06dab07cbb860b4d42d2cc7e9c0a1 SHA512 3ecddf59c069a4d9ff2b8e718f700e897cad762d0858e34bb4a6a63030226b7e6fe8956431149b59678240d590a2a04f026d49c2052a22f2694fe61037f2e1f4
diff --git a/dev-libs/libserdes/libserdes-5.4.0.ebuild b/dev-libs/libserdes/libserdes-5.4.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+DESCRIPTION="Avro SerializationDeserialization w/ Confluent schema-registry support"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/confluentinc/libserdes"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/confluentinc/libserdes/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-libs/jansson
+	net-misc/curl
+	dev-libs/avro-c"
+	RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
diff --git a/dev-libs/libserdes/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/libserdes/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>williamh@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>William Hubbs</name>
+	</maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>