diff --git a/dev-python/awkward/Manifest b/dev-python/awkward/Manifest
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+++ b/dev-python/awkward/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
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diff --git a/dev-python/awkward/awkward-2.13.0.ebuild b/dev-python/awkward/awkward-2.13.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2025-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=hatchling
+PYPI_VERIFY_REPO=https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{12..14} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1 pypi
+
+DESCRIPTION="Manipulate JSON-like data with NumPy-like idioms"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/
+	https://pypi.org/project/awkward/
+	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4341376
+"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	~dev-python/awkward-cpp-56[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/numpy-1.21.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/packaging[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/fsspec-2022.11.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-python/hatch-vcs[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/hatch-fancy-pypi-readme[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/packaging[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? (
+		dev-libs/apache-arrow[zstd]
+		>=dev-python/pyarrow-17.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/numexpr[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pandas[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+		#dev-python/numba[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] # needs numba from sci
+
+EPYTEST_IGNORE=(
+	# fails if just caffe2 but not pytorch is installed
+	tests/test_3259_to_torch_from_torch.py
+)
+
+EPYTEST_PLUGINS=()
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+python_test() {
+	# CUDA tests require cupy
+	epytest tests
+}