diff --git a/dev-python/tuf/Manifest b/dev-python/tuf/Manifest
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+DIST tuf-5.0.0.tar.gz 266998 BLAKE2B 6fcf909955f7c2515ede1922c9534ca439cc68d07af81ba53d8811f74fd4510655cc17395f1e0e5df0e3ea752e74862e8d1397b9b3a272565e793c70af9de352 SHA512 c8ae86480320fb33e6d92292da0e687a3d7c90c2bcc234518d934671a954a0970e158cc48ab95be51e6eb21eb63a769c47be9a7880b446d5b0eba9f34570c07d
diff --git a/dev-python/tuf/metadata.xml b/dev-python/tuf/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+	</maintainer>
+	<stabilize-allarches/>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">theupdateframework/python-tuf</remote-id>
+		<remote-id type="pypi">tuf</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/tuf/tuf-5.0.0.ebuild b/dev-python/tuf/tuf-5.0.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=hatchling
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..13} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1 pypi
+
+DESCRIPTION="A secure updater framework for Python"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/theupdateframework/python-tuf/
+	https://pypi.org/project/tuf/
+"
+
+LICENSE="|| ( Apache-2.0 MIT )"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/requests-2.19.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	<dev-python/securesystemslib-2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests unittest
+
+python_test() {
+	cd tests || die
+	local -x PYTHONPATH="..:${PYTHONPATH}"
+	eunittest
+}