diff --git a/dev-python/plette/Manifest b/dev-python/plette/Manifest
index 1f6c9dbd5706f..10d00efa515c2 100644
--- a/dev-python/plette/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/plette/Manifest
@@ -1 +1 @@
-DIST plette-0.4.4.tar.gz 10684 BLAKE2B e0ff780fdd3d2bcaefadce528310389e7a796e9d3b13f458aa4313365ef8b15a3188bf50a602eac0cebd857d9dc747c7c637d958d61964ada42ab1873676263b SHA512 a7eb51546523c1b0159286cb6a2f1c248a383c33a41f19e2d62af9371bcf5d8042a953b28f2b9aea1ed568d93464b3dabd3e4fb6f4b37c3c0e73b84f26a01f6d
+DIST plette-0.4.4.gh.tar.gz 36359 BLAKE2B dc630b9e98db9a8f6047fe0bb31c2ab29d695745b59d457c9cac218922c0d578a474f80ddc419364fb8ef92c5952c5cea33ee571cce2d698015466edb738885a SHA512 c4342ce040966730d2eba638c718c1db9340051baa89238b99e64cf8ef734fe448f0aaeae224e9f6b51c9e38458e9caeb2c8d6abbd5db76249529aaee90ed5c0
diff --git a/dev-python/plette/plette-0.4.4.ebuild b/dev-python/plette/plette-0.4.4-r1.ebuild
similarity index 79%
rename from dev-python/plette/plette-0.4.4.ebuild
rename to dev-python/plette/plette-0.4.4-r1.ebuild
index 2592ab986b58e..ec5058000ee1f 100644
--- a/dev-python/plette/plette-0.4.4.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/plette/plette-0.4.4-r1.ebuild
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ HOMEPAGE="
 	https://github.com/sarugaku/plette
 	https://pypi.org/project/plette/
 "
+# pypi tarballs are missing test data
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/sarugaku/${PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.gh.tar.gz"
 
 LICENSE="ISC"
 SLOT="0"