diff --git a/dev-python/line_profiler/Manifest b/dev-python/line_profiler/Manifest
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+DIST line_profiler-1.0.tar.gz 65862 SHA256 a9e0c9ffa814f1215107c86c890afa8e63bec5a37d951f6f9d3668c1df2b1900 SHA512 15dd7ee10951287a5030eaff28e729e82094ec41d8e8dec803d5e44c6b9036ecbf1198365ef43c1fdd28451dec260c6491d118f1762d99fe037bb85eb7908dda WHIRLPOOL 1fd56ea4777a3c569807a124c708018fc77e68521d1f1ecdb13c343ddad3fcd881353cd71a0af36d06a12f1dd17be0f2731040fca5e827a4936298057dabf917
diff --git a/dev-python/line_profiler/line_profiler-1.0.ebuild b/dev-python/line_profiler/line_profiler-1.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=5
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{3,4,5} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Line-by-line profiler"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/rkern/line_profiler"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+SLOT="0"
+LICENSE="BSD"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="test"
+
+DEPEND="
+	test? ( dev-python/pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	"
+
+python_test() {
+	"${PYTHON}" -m unittest discover -v "${S}"/tests/ \
+		|| die "Tests failed with ${EPYTHON}"
+}
diff --git a/dev-python/line_profiler/line_profiler-9999.ebuild b/dev-python/line_profiler/line_profiler-9999.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=5
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{3,4,5} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1 git-r3
+
+DESCRIPTION="Line-by-line profiler"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/rkern/line_profiler"
+EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/rkern/${PN}.git"
+
+SLOT="0"
+LICENSE="BSD"
+KEYWORDS=""
+IUSE="test"
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-python/cython[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? ( dev-python/pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	"
+
+python_test() {
+	"${PYTHON}" -m unittest discover -v "${S}"/tests/ \
+		|| die "Tests failed with ${EPYTHON}"
+}
diff --git a/dev-python/line_profiler/metadata.xml b/dev-python/line_profiler/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+  <herd>sci</herd>
+  <maintainer>
+    <email>marbre@linux.sungazer.de</email>
+    <name>Marius Brehler</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <longdescription>
+    line_profiler is a module for doing line-by-line profiling of
+    functions. kernprof is a convenient script for running either
+    line_profiler or the Python standard library's cProfile or profile
+    modules, depending on what is available.
+  </longdescription>
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="pypi">line_profiler</remote-id>
+    <remote-id type="github">rkern/line_profiler</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>