diff --git a/dev-python/olefile/Manifest b/dev-python/olefile/Manifest
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+DIST olefile-0.44.tar.gz 57903 SHA256 021fbed5c539881d7f1360fb27e942fdfa7c78006bed39e6cd6f3dd9e7bd68da SHA512 92b6ad1bced5b2c8e5332a01e5a2e59527ec2303046d0babd665b0f02fe56966574eff56619de168c50f1ea40df2e61ce589ee61b634222146d049b129514c65 WHIRLPOOL 518a1a29fd3390f816db85a2de4918aa2f81b9d6402faf1c6b410c88a13402139e560d3564da60c75bfd6eba93f5351d8d69581b5e643d259fb421edae9a18e6
diff --git a/dev-python/olefile/metadata.xml b/dev-python/olefile/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="project">
+    <email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Python</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="pypi">olefile</remote-id>
+    <remote-id type="github">python-imaging/Pillow</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/olefile/olefile-0.44.ebuild b/dev-python/olefile/olefile-0.44.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=5
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_{3,4,5,6}} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Python package to parse, read and write Microsoft OLE2 files"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.decalage.info/olefile"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/decalage2/${PN}/releases/download/v${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
+IUSE="doc"
+
+RDEPEND=""
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	doc? ( dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )"
+
+python_compile_all() {
+	if use doc; then
+	   emake -C doc html
+	   HTML_DOCS=( doc/_build/html/. )
+	fi
+
+}