diff --git a/dev-python/lxc-python2/Manifest b/dev-python/lxc-python2/Manifest
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+DIST lxc-python2-0.1.zip 15251 BLAKE2B e9a7ef693f2cab70a626a5fb7325d2bbdd8b56356d984eebccbdc26e61abf7e55cb87df3fbc717af38ba2278de2c6d2bc40ea950f88aff43c8859b2784e17a54 SHA512 e2374373dbf0567209f028df6c8dcf66b1f06be89934824c9663104e4fed9341f2b68d89011624f87de0e4e2702affaf1f7b17987bb179d1d945c2e04f8aa1bc
diff --git a/dev-python/lxc-python2/lxc-python2-0.1.ebuild b/dev-python/lxc-python2/lxc-python2-0.1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Python bindings for LXC"
+HOMEPAGE="https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.zip"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~x86"
+IUSE=""
+
+RDEPEND=">=app-emulation/lxc-3.0"
+
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
diff --git a/dev-python/lxc-python2/metadata.xml b/dev-python/lxc-python2/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="project">
+    <email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+  </maintainer>
+  <maintainer type="project">
+    <email>virtualization@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Gentoo Virtualization Project</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <maintainer type="person">
+    <email>prometheanfire@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Matthew Thode</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <longdescription lang="en">
+    Python 2.7 binding for liblxc
+  </longdescription>
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="github">lxc/python2-lxc</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>