diff --git a/dev-ruby/excon/Manifest b/dev-ruby/excon/Manifest
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+DIST excon-0.73.0.tar.gz 216100 BLAKE2B 7830ac608c25ac42dd5fac85d2e4fa7a06713ba49340693f23886aa2e7bb5f29cde956eac99a13f17c1f7ef987f00d0cfb3bd306c5bffd16c1bdb469be4baa60 SHA512 a58556510d8c53c7d4f71dd4846497ee8ab17bd087d5ac9248784fcd1f1dc2e46bf4dbccd22ad8e467614428fdeacc7af6768380922749f92c7d78b849e08eff
diff --git a/dev-ruby/excon/excon-0.73.0.ebuild b/dev-ruby/excon/excon-0.73.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+USE_RUBY="ruby25 ruby26 ruby27"
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTRADOC="changelog.txt README.md"
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_GEMSPEC="excon.gemspec"
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_RECIPE_TEST="rspec3"
+
+inherit ruby-fakegem
+
+DESCRIPTION="EXtended http(s) CONnections"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/excon/excon"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/excon/excon/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE="test"
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+
+ruby_add_bdepend "
+	dev-ruby/rake
+	test? (
+		dev-ruby/activesupport
+		>=dev-ruby/eventmachine-1.0.4
+		>=dev-ruby/json-1.8.5
+		dev-ruby/open4
+		dev-ruby/rdoc
+		dev-ruby/sinatra
+	)
+"
+all_ruby_prepare() {
+	sed -i -e 's/git ls-files -z/find . -print0/' ${RUBY_FAKEGEM_GEMSPEC} || die
+
+	# test that need network
+	rm -f spec/excon/test/server_spec.rb || die
+}
diff --git a/dev-ruby/excon/metadata.xml b/dev-ruby/excon/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>guillaumeseren@gmail.com</email>
+		<name>Guillaume Seren</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">excon/excon</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>