diff --git a/dev-python/docker-py/Manifest b/dev-python/docker-py/Manifest
index 9e28eb28e58b1..bba31aec6f146 100644
--- a/dev-python/docker-py/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/docker-py/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST docker-py-5.0.3.gh.tar.gz 247093 BLAKE2B 607aca3f6a58b289feed018f40fa5e76e9d6cbae9eefd15a3347e393ae68d963e897e5f288ebf3a13cfbbfafd37882152da1398f61a808338424f353384f1b43 SHA512 50890e8d75eb9e4d3d98bbea5f86b86ad199a56ab0761bf2d0c0f3b7902810b2c17c2a677b0063963742a43a4660d400705bb8eb4e217c89302ae849a4ef3e08
+DIST docker-py-6.1.2.gh.tar.gz 253183 BLAKE2B 28435f5db00cbcd189cb06af77a4eac95a27944d324718c02b1d8f28c9954242c3a36ae376b0e0118ce1e03cb49f44925250b33b34b3ba5b459ef0df9ae9a6a4 SHA512 13c2711c44ae7b781187abaa7518ed86dd37192a44b6fff2c0090bfd8edb82555d15fb9d1681de9db47839f8dbcf17cc03fb88ed4e0e0052032dbcc9ed4c0078
diff --git a/dev-python/docker-py/docker-py-6.1.2.ebuild b/dev-python/docker-py/docker-py-6.1.2.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..3c5d6b7bfcd0b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/docker-py/docker-py-6.1.2.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2023 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
+
+MY_P=docker-py-${PV}
+DESCRIPTION="Python client for Docker"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/docker/docker-py/
+	https://pypi.org/project/docker/
+"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/docker/docker-py/archive/${PV}.tar.gz
+		-> ${MY_P}.gh.tar.gz
+"
+S=${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/packaging-14.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/requests-2.26.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/urllib3-1.26.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/websocket-client-0.32.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-python/setuptools-scm[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? (
+		>=dev-python/paramiko-2.4.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+distutils_enable_sphinx docs \
+	'dev-python/myst-parser'
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+src_prepare() {
+	# localhost has a better chance of being in /etc/hosts
+	sed -e 's:socket[.]gethostname():"localhost":' \
+		-i tests/unit/api_test.py || die
+
+	distutils-r1_src_prepare
+
+	export SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION=${PV}
+}
+
+python_test() {
+	epytest tests/unit
+}
diff --git a/dev-python/docker-py/metadata.xml b/dev-python/docker-py/metadata.xml
index 8ec98dea87922..f7c364e174f0e 100644
--- a/dev-python/docker-py/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/docker-py/metadata.xml
@@ -8,6 +8,6 @@
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">docker/docker-py</remote-id>
 		<bugs-to>https://github.com/docker/docker-py/issues</bugs-to>
-		<remote-id type="pypi">docker-py</remote-id>
+		<remote-id type="pypi">docker</remote-id>
 	</upstream>
 </pkgmetadata>