diff --git a/net-news/newsboat/Manifest b/net-news/newsboat/Manifest
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+++ b/net-news/newsboat/Manifest
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+DIST newsboat-2.10.tar.xz 326280 SHA256 11a4bbb95467a4dd5b10d737e4dff005a0d175f98afd0aed65c88314ae28a65b SHA512 1d7efacd4614572fed490f828c8e70f31dd7d4897ff882a6a79cfbf8295909e24aabcf39f927bec6842fac9d7beb3ea6f8db34cf54efd29ea8e9188f5a1afe8c WHIRLPOOL 53e709be32406535a07c2fe895813f1f592d6c28c277d7ddc375e616bb9c0bbc624968751bd69b8d11166246a2bee57d50035a0fb74e7eeec9c4321fc993e49b
diff --git a/net-news/newsboat/metadata.xml b/net-news/newsboat/metadata.xml
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+++ b/net-news/newsboat/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>radhermit@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Tim Harder</name>
+	</maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/net-news/newsboat/newsboat-2.10.ebuild b/net-news/newsboat/newsboat-2.10.ebuild
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index 0000000000000..f0be1cf088bd5
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+++ b/net-news/newsboat/newsboat-2.10.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+if [[ ${PV} == 9999 ]]; then
+	inherit git-r3
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat.git"
+else
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+	SRC_URI="https://newsboat.org/releases/${PV}/${P}.tar.xz"
+fi
+
+inherit toolchain-funcs
+
+DESCRIPTION="An RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals"
+HOMEPAGE="https://newsboat.org/ https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE="test"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-db/sqlite-3.5:3
+	>=dev-libs/stfl-0.21
+	>=net-misc/curl-7.18.0
+	>=dev-libs/json-c-0.11:=
+	dev-libs/libxml2
+	sys-libs/ncurses:0=[unicode]
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-lang/perl
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+	sys-devel/gettext
+	test? (
+		dev-libs/boost
+		sys-devel/bc
+	)
+"
+[[ ${PV} == 9999 ]] && DEPEND+=" app-text/asciidoc"
+
+# tests require network access
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	sed -e 's:-ggdb::' -e 's:-Werror::' -i Makefile || die
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	./config.sh || die
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	emake prefix="/usr" CXX="$(tc-getCXX)" AR="$(tc-getAR)" RANLIB="$(tc-getRANLIB)"
+	[[ ${PV} == 9999 ]] && emake doc
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	emake test
+	# Tests fail if in ${S} rather than in ${S}/test
+	cd "${S}"/test || die
+	./test || die
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	emake DESTDIR="${D}" prefix="/usr" docdir="/usr/share/doc/${PF}" install
+	dodoc CHANGELOG.md README.md TODO
+}
diff --git a/net-news/newsboat/newsboat-9999.ebuild b/net-news/newsboat/newsboat-9999.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..f0be1cf088bd5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-news/newsboat/newsboat-9999.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+if [[ ${PV} == 9999 ]]; then
+	inherit git-r3
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat.git"
+else
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+	SRC_URI="https://newsboat.org/releases/${PV}/${P}.tar.xz"
+fi
+
+inherit toolchain-funcs
+
+DESCRIPTION="An RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals"
+HOMEPAGE="https://newsboat.org/ https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE="test"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-db/sqlite-3.5:3
+	>=dev-libs/stfl-0.21
+	>=net-misc/curl-7.18.0
+	>=dev-libs/json-c-0.11:=
+	dev-libs/libxml2
+	sys-libs/ncurses:0=[unicode]
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-lang/perl
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+	sys-devel/gettext
+	test? (
+		dev-libs/boost
+		sys-devel/bc
+	)
+"
+[[ ${PV} == 9999 ]] && DEPEND+=" app-text/asciidoc"
+
+# tests require network access
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	sed -e 's:-ggdb::' -e 's:-Werror::' -i Makefile || die
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	./config.sh || die
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	emake prefix="/usr" CXX="$(tc-getCXX)" AR="$(tc-getAR)" RANLIB="$(tc-getRANLIB)"
+	[[ ${PV} == 9999 ]] && emake doc
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	emake test
+	# Tests fail if in ${S} rather than in ${S}/test
+	cd "${S}"/test || die
+	./test || die
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	emake DESTDIR="${D}" prefix="/usr" docdir="/usr/share/doc/${PF}" install
+	dodoc CHANGELOG.md README.md TODO
+}