diff --git a/dev-python/jarowinkler/Manifest b/dev-python/jarowinkler/Manifest
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+DIST jarowinkler-1.2.1.tar.gz 85696 BLAKE2B 4e9c4dd4160a80fa600ae57c7cc97abd794bb0a49881137ed3f69c03549268bbf71dc410b86f8bd782b92df4eac63738ebd32dd716d682a0ce8aaaf039a38f61 SHA512 1337a5f67e54a0c0990dde7fc631c263b63c64c7dbefae82579842a639a85ea7214185489d56b6e2be5a6362773fbaea29a958f62dbfa270beefba516c325654
diff --git a/dev-python/jarowinkler/jarowinkler-1.2.1.ebuild b/dev-python/jarowinkler/jarowinkler-1.2.1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+# custom wrapper over setuptools
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=standalone
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..11} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Fast fuzzy string matching using Jaro and Jaro-Winkler similarity"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/maxbachmann/JaroWinkler/
+	https://pypi.org/project/jarowinkler/
+"
+SRC_URI="
+	mirror://pypi/${PN::1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz
+"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-cpp/jarowinkler-cpp
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-python/rapidfuzz_capi[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/scikit-build-0.13.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? (
+		dev-python/hypothesis[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+export JAROWINKLER_BUILD_EXTENSION=1
diff --git a/dev-python/jarowinkler/metadata.xml b/dev-python/jarowinkler/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Python</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">maxbachmann/JaroWinkler</remote-id>
+		<remote-id type="pypi">jarowinkler</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>