diff --git a/dev-python/curio/Manifest b/dev-python/curio/Manifest
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+DIST curio-0.9.tar.gz 482459 BLAKE2B 7ef65d22806eb10ee3e757dc0d63a202c13036cdb1995962e193332c50dd73585ab27449614de5995f874c03d8623ea27f967101aa99b15166d19a48f4cdaaea SHA512 a6ae4db76358536e6e299ecfa923fd63746cba4bc5374fbfdeb4127032552c960d1e199fdf17d95b039ca2bd000325c637f663007cd6850313bc00bc9a2a3d68
diff --git a/dev-python/curio/curio-0.9.ebuild b/dev-python/curio/curio-0.9.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{6,7,8} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Concurrent I/O"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/dabeaz/curio"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+IUSE="examples"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+SLOT="0"
+
+DEPEND="test? ( dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )"
+
+distutils_enable_sphinx docs --no-autodoc
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+python_prepare_all() {
+	# Contains hard coded path, fails in emerge
+	rm -r tests/__pycache__ || die
+
+	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
+}
+
+python_install_all() {
+	use examples && dodoc -r examples
+
+	distutils-r1_python_install_all
+}
diff --git a/dev-python/curio/metadata.xml b/dev-python/curio/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>andrewammerlaan@riseup.net</email>
+        <name>Andrew Ammerlaan</name>
+    </maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>