diff --git a/dev-python/wcmatch/metadata.xml b/dev-python/wcmatch/metadata.xml
index a6af55c38820e..5e9ad1b813323 100644
--- a/dev-python/wcmatch/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/wcmatch/metadata.xml
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@
 		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
 	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+	</maintainer>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">facelessuser/wcmatch</remote-id>
 		<remote-id type="pypi">wcmatch</remote-id>
diff --git a/dev-python/wcmatch/wcmatch-7.2.ebuild b/dev-python/wcmatch/wcmatch-7.2.ebuild
index 4ab18a52134a2..fdc416d524541 100644
--- a/dev-python/wcmatch/wcmatch-7.2.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/wcmatch/wcmatch-7.2.ebuild
@@ -39,10 +39,15 @@ BDEPEND="test? (
 distutils_enable_tests pytest
 
 python_prepare_all() {
-	# no such file or dir ~homedir
+	# this test makes a really wrong assumption that basename of $HOME
+	# will be a username
 	sed -i -e 's:test_tilde_user:_&:' \
 		tests/test_glob.py || die
 
+	# tests require some files in homedir
+	> "${HOME}"/test1.txt || die
+	> "${HOME}"/test2.txt || die
+
 	# mkdocs-git-revision-date-localized-plugin needs git repo
 	if use doc; then
 		git init || die