diff --git a/dev-python/build/Manifest b/dev-python/build/Manifest
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+DIST build-0.7.0.tar.gz 37127 BLAKE2B b06ba16c154087046bd5efddb5fd6f60dad9ee79a204a0c1124fb4885d3692bcf4bd88b75c9665ade3f8457e12742d32e3cef40a0ffb5a894b049a6e942c09e3 SHA512 fd8410dc91333ba94c5141dd78f8052b66f947839752a5d0f401630f6bceed5be2e1f45eceaa2a98908c0e3ddb88a00e3ccca341a3890fa99202bc560ab6ff42
diff --git a/dev-python/build/build-0.7.0.ebuild b/dev-python/build/build-0.7.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} pypy3 )
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="A simple, correct PEP517 build frontend"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/pypa/build https://pypi.org/project/build/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/pypa/${PN}/archive/refs/tags/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-python/packaging[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/pep517[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/tomli[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+BDEPEND="test? (
+	dev-python/filelock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/flaky[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/pytest-mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/toml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/wheel[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+)"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+# distutils_enable_sphinx docs \
+# 	dev-python/furo \
+# 	dev-python/sphinx-argparse-cli \
+# 	dev-python/sphinx-autodoc-typehints
+
+EPYTEST_DESELECT=(
+	tests/test_env.py::test_isolated_env_log
+	tests/test_main.py::test_build_package
+	tests/test_main.py::test_build_package_via_sdist
+	tests/test_main.py::test_output
+	tests/test_main.py::test_output_env_subprocess_error
+	"tests/test_util.py::test_wheel_metadata[True]"
+	tests/test_util.py::test_wheel_metadata_isolation
+	tests/test_util.py::test_with_get_requires
+)
diff --git a/dev-python/build/metadata.xml b/dev-python/build/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="pypi">build</remote-id>
+		<doc>https://pypa-build.readthedocs.io/en/latest/</doc>
+	</upstream>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>cyber+gentoo@sysrq.in</email>
+		<name>Anna</name>
+	</maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>