diff --git a/net-im/poezio/Manifest b/net-im/poezio/Manifest
index 31beb57cfb2c7..33c79ae63b32b 100644
--- a/net-im/poezio/Manifest
+++ b/net-im/poezio/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST poezio-0.15.1.tar.gz 3406541 BLAKE2B ecff8f168fe29814e30769cea8bda083d5b46571b72d4d8bf797a801f8b76ec02fe84336c56842e901b6b97e29885bfff3a4359f057587bbd83ce4a82e4b0ec4 SHA512 6baff764fe5775108f3a0657f044ff86ddac6c9f22b64382c8dbdd7a273baed5084fc4d76e236f0419deeba5d50198c860ce1830ceb8b61fe4b5e918f7180516
+DIST poezio-0.17.tar.gz 3390556 BLAKE2B a4107aecd9761e9b9a315124e85f3672af2889679e9698180370bc76c0bdf2a0e47a3da7ec1edf89593b2f97213461567aad38bc595c2562836036614f47fa11 SHA512 99167a038ecabb5f82169f8778dd1bf213462876a0613505c00f42efaf220b94ebd590d0a11b83b6c9f531958bcb703e47bbbd2e893dc4f01edb08e7938f3d28
diff --git a/net-im/poezio/files/poezio-0.17-Do-not-install-man-pages-and-files-in-usr-share.patch b/net-im/poezio/files/poezio-0.17-Do-not-install-man-pages-and-files-in-usr-share.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..faf10d69044f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-im/poezio/files/poezio-0.17-Do-not-install-man-pages-and-files-in-usr-share.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From 7b889591550f57485cabb6961571fd3c279bd1ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Florian Schmaus <flo@geekplace.eu>
+Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 15:08:30 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Do not install man pages and files in /usr/share/poezio
+
+Signed-off-by: Florian Schmaus <flo@geekplace.eu>
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -121,14 +121,9 @@ setup(
+     scripts=['scripts/poezio_logs'],
+     entry_points={'console_scripts': ['poezio = poezio.__main__:run']},
+     data_files=([
+-            ('share/man/man1/', ['data/poezio.1', 'data/poezio_logs.1']),
+-            ('share/poezio/', ['README.rst', 'COPYING', 'CHANGELOG']),
+             ('share/applications/', ['data/io.poez.Poezio.desktop']),
+             ('share/metainfo/', ['data/io.poez.Poezio.appdata.xml'])
+         ]
+-        + find_doc('share/doc/poezio/source', 'source')
+-        # Requires sphinx-build doc/source doc/build/html
+-        + find_doc('share/doc/poezio/html', 'build/html')
+         + sphinx_files_found
+     ),
+     cmdclass=cmdclass,
+-- 
+2.53.0
+
diff --git a/net-im/poezio/poezio-0.17.ebuild b/net-im/poezio/poezio-0.17.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..b2f44cc49e81a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-im/poezio/poezio-0.17.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_EXT=1
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..14} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1 optfeature xdg
+
+DESCRIPTION="Console XMPP client that looks like most famous IRC clients"
+HOMEPAGE="https://poez.io/ https://codeberg.org/poezio/poezio"
+LICENSE="GPL-3+"
+SLOT="0"
+
+if [[ "${PV}" == "9999" ]]; then
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://codeberg.org/poezio/poezio.git"
+	inherit git-r3
+
+	# We build the html documentation using sphinx.
+	BDEPEND="dev-python/sphinx"
+else
+	inherit pypi
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+fi
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/slixmpp-1.14.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}/poezio-0.17-Do-not-install-man-pages-and-files-in-usr-share.patch"
+)
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	# Delete unmaintained plugin which requires an excessive external dep
+	rm plugins/mpd_client.py || die
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	distutils-r1_src_compile
+
+	if [[ -n "${EGIT_REPO_URI}" ]]; then
+		emake -C doc html
+	fi
+}
+
+# Poezio provides its own Python C extension 'poopt', which needs to be
+# correctly discovered to run the tests. See
+# https://projects.gentoo.org/python/guide/test.html#importerrors-for-c-extensions
+python_test() {
+	cd "${T}" || die
+	epytest "${S}"/test
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	distutils-r1_src_install
+
+	doman data/poezio.1 data/poezio_logs.1
+
+	if [[ -n "${EGIT_REPO_URI}" ]]; then
+		docinto html
+		dodoc -r doc/build/html/*
+	fi
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	xdg_pkg_postinst
+
+	optfeature "screen autoaway support" dev-python/pyinotify
+}