diff --git a/dev-python/dirq/Manifest b/dev-python/dirq/Manifest
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+DIST dirq-1.7.1.tar.gz 32645 SHA256 258eac86de81fd013f11f309582bdff9f26c76e572214cf291c65c1bc667864c SHA512 8865f395e6ef81131c5e1df9f97cf1768557af06d446a79ece29e23b83c228cbb158099a7e85360423013cd8e5ead8970c5160865f065d16fcc288c2ce9d176f WHIRLPOOL dcd86acf6830f2e843a7691d816115aef7d1c9b9fa0a796bff4559a9d211779ce24ab03ced8ac7b917a35082aa34b1d2de90d480e94ae3db97c4a0e9dea28dd6
diff --git a/dev-python/dirq/dirq-1.7.1.ebuild b/dev-python/dirq/dirq-1.7.1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Python port of Perl module Directory::Queue"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/cern-mig/python-dirq"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+RDEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+
+# Note: as of 2017-03-22, dirq tests are known to fail in Docker containers
+python_test() {
+	esetup.py test
+}
diff --git a/dev-python/dirq/metadata.xml b/dev-python/dirq/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>marecki@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Marek Szuba</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription lang="en">
+		The goal of this module is to offer a queue system using the underlying
+		filesystem for storage, security and to prevent race conditions via
+		atomic operations. It focuses on simplicity, robustness and scalability.
+
+		This module allows multiple concurrent readers and writers to interact
+		with the same queue.
+	</longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">cern-mig/python-dirq</remote-id>
+		<remote-id type="pypi">dirq</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>