diff --git a/dev-libs/libgpg-error/Manifest b/dev-libs/libgpg-error/Manifest
index c712ea7197114..1d6680930c4e3 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libgpg-error/Manifest
+++ b/dev-libs/libgpg-error/Manifest
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@ DIST libgpg-error-1.59.tar.bz2 1123184 BLAKE2B 04dcdf411fbeecbfcb84c69949b429407
 DIST libgpg-error-1.59.tar.bz2.sig 147 BLAKE2B f95040c1bbd4e5807a351e77c73a6901b706478ffcaa19c3fa58a6d561e17ea1764b88ae24ea7f0651a633fafc465bb0457a3279e3db4d899bf30e094e652728 SHA512 6d89fdbd0f1151861d19832d12ebc92ed3d4263d6a44223d0f5ff8d1026898cd99cced1b864217c0d7501255db2c5586a7ddfd0a7fd2b8f36fbb98e768cb3c83
 DIST libgpg-error-1.60.tar.bz2 1125272 BLAKE2B 880cae5f57a679ee099fab48856d537dd35479795c2bb4ac20eb0a3612b0c2091487b64bcc94ea6520837f395ac5e2689c35a399499539bb319e1949a2a4e30b SHA512 e8beaa63ce56a34070b2e6b0978a9b91c5e8fa094a957c8dd6fec42cc02cbd47670b94fc19fdcec474358cc2ebb28f6fc21b3465e992fbd9c04eec576717b8ca
 DIST libgpg-error-1.60.tar.bz2.sig 294 BLAKE2B cae601d770c52094f3cd38a278bf5941a127605e3e76039fafcc14444963143232377bdb50db55da756403a13608597f631c5788ae5d9e5a875567859f3b4a05 SHA512 108fa3238e2824eb69fdbeabffe95c0042d64dd1c98adf752ff0480b07c966cb96d750f62c511dd8b3f16d5c8153a03ad2021bfcc7eea1098d20d7c397634694
+DIST libgpg-error-1.61.tar.bz2 1124751 BLAKE2B 84c48e864dfd00522c4f83c92ab9a31bd842d8786753b718cab31239c80403a1a64ed2577d91504dd0aa9caa7f5627e931b288325e5a44d636fe9f46601525f4 SHA512 3e59eb52d061709fd8dfe56a4b36d2d5b49dd5e0c90c283899669d6a355286cb3a3f851631f8456c78c48b652bb31a4c1f8b081ccdf87e5db64b313d141a7670
+DIST libgpg-error-1.61.tar.bz2.sig 294 BLAKE2B e63ba85212387b03533303b0c53a4c545996c54fe5f83858da88b135a1e43477b309bcb9b6bbc9514ff78bd4abcfa8c0549ef99bae142f2bf4af725dfbe90230 SHA512 439cf80dede9e2485a8afe1c44200aae37702ad0a324a718e9cfd17dbd77f372a4452bda1db8a363bd181510db01e97029f81b74e76f6925b651c192181dfef8
diff --git a/dev-libs/libgpg-error/libgpg-error-1.61.ebuild b/dev-libs/libgpg-error/libgpg-error-1.61.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..7d0c653a6635b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/libgpg-error/libgpg-error-1.61.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+# Maintainers should:
+# 1. Join the "Gentoo" project at https://dev.gnupg.org/project/view/27/
+# 2. Subscribe to release tasks like https://dev.gnupg.org/T6159
+# (find the one for the current release then subscribe to it +
+# any subsequent ones linked within so you're covered for a while.)
+
+VERIFY_SIG_OPENPGP_KEY_PATH=/usr/share/openpgp-keys/gnupg.asc
+inherit libtool multilib-minimal toolchain-funcs verify-sig
+
+DESCRIPTION="Contains error handling functions used by GnuPG software"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/libgpg-error/"
+SRC_URI="mirror://gnupg/${PN}/${P}.tar.bz2"
+SRC_URI+=" verify-sig? ( mirror://gnupg/${PN}/${P}.tar.bz2.sig )"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2 LGPL-2.1"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~arm64-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
+IUSE="common-lisp nls static-libs test"
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+
+RDEPEND="nls? ( >=virtual/libintl-0-r1[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="
+	nls? ( sys-devel/gettext )
+	verify-sig? ( sec-keys/openpgp-keys-gnupg )
+"
+
+MULTILIB_WRAPPED_HEADERS=(
+	/usr/include/gpg-error.h
+	/usr/include/gpgrt.h
+)
+
+MULTILIB_CHOST_TOOLS=(
+	/usr/bin/gpg-error-config
+	/usr/bin/gpgrt-config
+)
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	elibtoolize
+
+	if use prefix ; then
+		# don't hardcode /usr/xpg4/bin/sh as shell on Solaris
+		sed -i -e 's:INSTALLSHELLPATH=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh:INSTALLSHELLPATH=/bin/sh:g' configure.ac configure || die
+	fi
+
+	# This check breaks multilib
+	cat <<-EOF > src/gpg-error-config-test.sh.in || die
+	#!@INSTALLSHELLPATH@
+	exit 0
+	EOF
+
+	# only necessary for as long as we run eautoreconf, configure.ac
+	# uses ./autogen.sh to generate PACKAGE_VERSION, but autogen.sh is
+	# not a pure /bin/sh script, so it fails on some hosts
+	#sed -i -e "1s:.*:#\!${BASH}:" autogen.sh || die
+	#eautoreconf
+}
+
+multilib_src_configure() {
+	local myeconfargs=(
+		$(multilib_is_native_abi || echo --disable-languages)
+		$(use_enable common-lisp languages)
+		$(use_enable nls)
+		# required for sys-power/suspend[crypt], bug 751568
+		$(use_enable static-libs static)
+		$(use_enable test tests)
+
+		# See bug #699206 and its duplicates wrt gpgme-config
+		# Upstream no longer install this by default and we should
+		# seek to disable it at some point.
+		--enable-install-gpg-error-config
+
+		--enable-threads
+		CC_FOR_BUILD="$(tc-getBUILD_CC)"
+		$("${S}/configure" --help | grep -o -- '--without-.*-prefix')
+	)
+	ECONF_SOURCE="${S}" econf "${myeconfargs[@]}"
+}
+
+multilib_src_install_all() {
+	einstalldocs
+	find "${ED}" -type f -name '*.la' -delete || die
+}