diff --git a/dev-perl/Web-Machine/Manifest b/dev-perl/Web-Machine/Manifest
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+DIST Web-Machine-0.17.tar.gz 73528 BLAKE2B 63b74a0399d94ab6ed80cb6a70ab6d01c0679a4ef346a246f7af42bbb07d6dcdb45a5fd47201b8acc42a466642d8d84310d74a3b9f934ef3921bf2bcbcb0d070 SHA512 be05338cba3a46b16d508518c9c4b67f88b1cd979a4354668b53898f6e03e40e1fd59ab46850668f2bb75d3927f07790d68cf57a1d7aabaa0ed9181c2db56410
diff --git a/dev-perl/Web-Machine/Web-Machine-0.17.ebuild b/dev-perl/Web-Machine/Web-Machine-0.17.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DIST_AUTHOR=DROLSKY
+DIST_VERSION=0.17
+inherit perl-module
+
+DESCRIPTION="A Perl port of Webmachine"
+
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	virtual/perl-Carp
+	virtual/perl-Data-Dumper
+	virtual/perl-Encode
+	dev-perl/HTTP-Headers-ActionPack
+	dev-perl/Hash-MultiValue
+	dev-perl/IO-Handle-Util
+	virtual/perl-Scalar-List-Utils
+	virtual/perl-Locale-Maketext
+	dev-perl/Module-Runtime
+	dev-perl/Sub-Exporter
+	dev-perl/Try-Tiny
+"
+BDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-perl/Module-Build
+	virtual/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker
+"
diff --git a/dev-perl/Web-Machine/metadata.xml b/dev-perl/Web-Machine/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+  <maintainer type="project">
+    <email>perl@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Gentoo Perl Project</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="cpan">Web-Machine</remote-id>
+    <remote-id type="cpan-module">Web::Machine</remote-id>
+    <remote-id type="cpan-module">Web::Machine::Manual</remote-id>
+    <remote-id type="cpan-module">Web::Machine::FSM</remote-id>
+    <remote-id type="cpan-module">Web::Machine::FSM::States</remote-id>
+    <remote-id type="cpan-module">Web::Machine::I18N</remote-id>
+    <remote-id type="cpan-module">Web::Machine::I18N::en</remote-id>
+    <remote-id type="cpan-module">Web::Machine::Util</remote-id>
+    <remote-id type="cpan-module">Web::Machine::Util::BodyEncoding</remote-id>
+    <remote-id type="cpan-module">Web::Machine::Util::ContentNegotiation</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>