diff --git a/dev-python/python-designateclient/Manifest b/dev-python/python-designateclient/Manifest
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+DIST python-designateclient-2.0.0.tar.gz 63215 SHA256 516e883b74726eae0b24755dff682857bb6b11b26dc06eb231ffee5a696e48a8 SHA512 e5c10915d6f5619949b385096e2bce02e1115c4842ae315ffbd4488b29703fb0a038628818c80364c32461b4f9eeb083e2877c38a15bd4f6ec323942957c75bc WHIRLPOOL 732e8d4378074fb8c78ab40659fae8eca7a81fe831714cd1d62588d784be66e43d80fceb5344adb679371fec47a309c2e3c984eae976a29b293ef0788d729c2d
diff --git a/dev-python/python-designateclient/metadata.xml b/dev-python/python-designateclient/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>prometheanfire@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Matthew Thode</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription lang="en">
+		This is a client library for Designate built on the Designate API. It provides a Python API (the designateclient module) and a command-line tool (designate).
+	</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/python-designateclient/python-designateclient-2.0.0.ebuild b/dev-python/python-designateclient/python-designateclient-2.0.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=6
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_3 python3_4 python3_5 )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Python bindings to the Designate API."
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/openstack/python-designateclient"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86"
+IUSE=""
+
+CDEPEND=">=dev-python/pbr-1.8[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+DEPEND="dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	${CDEPEND}"
+RDEPEND="${CDEPEND}
+	>=dev-python/cliff-1.15.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/jsonschema-2.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	!~dev-python/jsonschema-2.5.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	<dev-python/jsonschema-3.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/oslo-utils-3.5.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/python-keystoneclient-1.6.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	!~dev-python/python-keystoneclient-1.8.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	!~dev-python/python-keystoneclient-2.1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/requests-2.8.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	!~dev-python/requests-2.9.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/six-1.9.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/stevedore-1.5.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/debtcollector-0.3.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"