diff --git a/dev-python/packaging/Manifest b/dev-python/packaging/Manifest
index d1684489de7eb..06dc17dc8a72d 100644
--- a/dev-python/packaging/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/packaging/Manifest
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@ DIST packaging-26.0.tar.gz 143416 BLAKE2B 0f64797c7dc0c1d452bef437f3c61959efe17d
 DIST packaging-26.0.tar.gz.provenance 9319 BLAKE2B 95a46bf39757ebc5daa5a847413936dbf9067c50129009cca898b3010d2cc7d7175b1091ba4b8b3f5c13106a9f9da0b6dc858ab65fd0dbe7164e2c99752c539b SHA512 b1280f2554b17244745ac2c566922c1bb2b68e45a18020633d52c12a0e6be784506f10c0dfcf9a528ff6dedb7a4bfac0f240367fe26707435ee7cc15fb4c45a8
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+DIST packaging-26.2.tar.gz 228134 BLAKE2B 5d19304c33c560fdc5e1784c2cc0ce8b7033957c2484ff00d7b07110e2d49c84c14c40066c93a9fada23dbc47a864ac4de16afec5588031c38b084a9198d40e8 SHA512 cefa0ac8cfade3e86d73c62e79aff75e7e24337495f6e675c20ddd3fa3f3431eb48764a34e5ab0bcdacc0d2204afdc0088686d1f3f6880e9a8ae055da4867f15
+DIST packaging-26.2.tar.gz.provenance 9601 BLAKE2B bfeddec8c935693875dae1b6a5f6c8309a3a9ccaf0a814012795c97df3f08ec2ec3dec9e69179363f507297b42ee18e404039e0573c9ca1287eca4ed5544ba32 SHA512 05f2c47a7cfbd175bac6731b87d59daf4d072592787e7feca26c203478678e90451cfce405e0fd2b82ca8db64f29cbd9f01a73bd3fdfc7eacdb4b3b1d9a7fd35
diff --git a/dev-python/packaging/packaging-26.2.ebuild b/dev-python/packaging/packaging-26.2.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..c9f68e88d9280
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/packaging/packaging-26.2.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+# please keep this ebuild at EAPI 8 -- sys-apps/portage dep
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=flit
+PYPI_VERIFY_REPO=https://github.com/pypa/packaging
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..14} python3_{13,14}t pypy3_11 )
+
+inherit distutils-r1 pypi
+
+DESCRIPTION="Core utilities for Python packages"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/pypa/packaging/
+	https://pypi.org/project/packaging/
+"
+
+LICENSE="|| ( Apache-2.0 BSD-2 )"
+SLOT="0"
+if [[ ${PV} != *_rc* ]]; then
+	KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~arm64-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
+fi
+
+RDEPEND="
+	!<dev-python/setuptools-67
+"
+DEPEND="
+	test? (
+		dev-python/pretend[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/tomli-w[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+EPYTEST_PLUGINS=()
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+python_test() {
+	epytest --capture=no
+}