diff --git a/dev-python/yara-python/Manifest b/dev-python/yara-python/Manifest
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+DIST yara-python-4.1.0.tar.gz 33717 BLAKE2B f3ec4a90e6d00fa9bc6fe649ce0eb373ae2e3f5fb0c9290020abcb111be10608958ae45733e8200b7199cb43b14a52b2e3ebebf794ac1ab33006467014134b62 SHA512 8b9ce780b6639ab2ee5222adec888c7e0fb6be81c7c64a8b33b033de3f261f9707aa208b7a3a86749f6e86a83fe6d73941c816857faf6eb714399d1f50239b51
diff --git a/dev-python/yara-python/metadata.xml b/dev-python/yara-python/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">
+      <description>co-maintainers welcome</description>
+      <email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
+      <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
+    </maintainer>
+    <upstream>
+        <bugs-to>https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara-python/issues</bugs-to>
+        <remote-id type="github">VirusTotal/yara-python</remote-id>
+        <remote-id type="pypi">yara-python</remote-id>
+    </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/yara-python/yara-python-4.1.0.ebuild b/dev-python/yara-python/yara-python-4.1.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} pypy3 )
+
+inherit distutils-r1 eutils
+
+DESCRIPTION="Python interface for a malware identification and classification tool"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara-python"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/virustotal/yara-python/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	${PYTHON_DEPS}
+	=app-forensics/yara-$(ver_cut 1-2)*
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+
+distutils_enable_tests setup.py
+
+compile_python() {
+	distutils-r1_python_compile --dynamic-linking
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	python_foreach_impl compile_python
+}