diff --git a/dev-python/matrix-common/Manifest b/dev-python/matrix-common/Manifest
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+DIST matrix-common-1.2.1.gh.tar.gz 12598 BLAKE2B 94f25d90c9df948054739cee39033c1f261e61300aa74b7ce606cf8a3c82e716687aa57ddb0f72b8617ae56c21486b50a68f9e6c8611e2f8b19c33b0d2a557e7 SHA512 9ab05d6aeddf4915970916d34e625b7a059823e56ba8868f955cf8971a51ac31891304a7fb00170c60c6b107f7526565f67bd78416a466c50092954c5b422114
diff --git a/dev-python/matrix-common/matrix-common-1.2.1.ebuild b/dev-python/matrix-common/matrix-common-1.2.1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{9..11} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Common code for Synapse, Sydent and Sygnal"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-python-common
+	https://pypi.org/project/matrix-common/
+"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-python-common/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.gh.tar.gz"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/matrix-python-common-${PV}"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-python/attrs[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/importlib_metadata[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests unittest
diff --git a/dev-python/matrix-common/metadata.xml b/dev-python/matrix-common/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="person" proxied="yes">
+		<email>arkamar@atlas.cz</email>
+		<name>Petr Vaněk</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project" proxied="proxy">
+		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="pypi">matrix-common</remote-id>
+		<remote-id type="github">matrix-org/matrix-python-common</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>