diff --git a/dev-python/mkdocs-material/Manifest b/dev-python/mkdocs-material/Manifest
index eea0072aba500..d265a03daaad9 100644
--- a/dev-python/mkdocs-material/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/mkdocs-material/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST mkdocs-material-9.6.14.gh.tar.gz 14819385 BLAKE2B ee111ca205746a0c115d2cf455a9a2ca39c1d74425c12ca5e16dee9f9afc2adcc33b67c8b2d51d4e5813b8ee60475718ab8eba747e13cb01c6a43a0fd170794e SHA512 f1e09a6301ed3bddc4ff041b8a96894d07df9169b25e8f65570f8d2457617196a532335be43cbaca6df6b4d46d45d6f1837521a41e17766f03118c01789d4343
+DIST mkdocs-material-9.6.15.gh.tar.gz 14818385 BLAKE2B 5d2d96489563ac750487766492601c7543c500b8dac8528d9b9109b3fa136016649bfe74c4301b3309972bb4c49c86390d3dfe39daef35c141701a912429ed0c SHA512 0dd1b067da1eef9e7a52a0620fe9c19745fa3bf8f8addeba456b934712401a5fb0a29bb7cee05b6b04a25a8377192e3245477d43ed38d2f1c31cdaaaf5d5c230
diff --git a/dev-python/mkdocs-material/mkdocs-material-9.6.15.ebuild b/dev-python/mkdocs-material/mkdocs-material-9.6.15.ebuild
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@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=hatchling
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( pypy3_11 python3_{11..13} )
+
+DOCS_BUILDER="mkdocs"
+DOCS_DEPEND="
+	dev-python/mkdocs-material-extensions
+	dev-python/mkdocs-minify-plugin
+	dev-python/mkdocs-redirects
+"
+
+inherit distutils-r1 docs
+
+DESCRIPTION="A Material Design theme for MkDocs"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material/
+	https://pypi.org/project/mkdocs-material/
+"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/squidfunk/${PN}/archive/${PV}.tar.gz
+		-> ${P}.gh.tar.gz
+"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+# bundled icons
+LICENSE+=" Apache-2.0 CC0-1.0 CC-BY-4.0 MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86"
+IUSE="social"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/babel-2.10.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/colorama-0.4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/jinja2-3.0.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/lxml-4.6[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/markdown-3.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/mkdocs-1.5.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/paginate-0.5.6[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/pygments-2.16[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/pymdown-extensions-10.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/readtime-2.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
+		>=dev-python/regex-2022.4.24[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	' 'python*')
+	>=dev-python/requests-2.26[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	social? (
+		>=dev-python/pillow-10.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=media-gfx/cairosvg-2.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/trove-classifiers-2023.10.18[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+# mkdocs-material-extensions depends on mkdocs-material creating a circular dep
+PDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/mkdocs-material-extensions-1.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+
+PATCHES=(
+	# simplify pyproject to remove extra deps for metadata
+	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-8.5.7-simplify-build.patch"
+	# import backrefs only when used (i.e. never)
+	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-9.6.7-backrefs.patch"
+)
+
+src_prepare() {
+	distutils-r1_src_prepare
+	echo "__version__ = '${PV}'" > gentoo_version.py || die
+}