diff --git a/dev-libs/libtsm/Manifest b/dev-libs/libtsm/Manifest
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+DIST libtsm-3.tar.xz 293264 BLAKE2B 51044f5e7be2269e1b3f40b04aa486f30a3a496d57d3aa64f25b148edb04d8e039dafbe0df32d0557f4c3a21da52bb53be146fe57d84d4e8201289c3bd347d95 SHA512 119834fd6a84489cc7904bf01905c29004901ddf73d6dc4a1f47f6b402ad76f65cb4226eaa718a73dc06694b1524647eff6046894fd9526a8588eed97f6f68b6
diff --git a/dev-libs/libtsm/libtsm-3.ebuild b/dev-libs/libtsm/libtsm-3.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+DESCRIPTION="Terminal Emulator State Machine"
+HOMEPAGE="https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~dvdhrm/libtsm"
+SRC_URI="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/kmscon/releases/${P}.tar.xz"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-2.1 MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE=""
diff --git a/dev-libs/libtsm/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/libtsm/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>bkohler@gentoo.org</email>
+	<name>Ben Kohler</name>
+</maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>