diff --git a/dev-python/tornado/Manifest b/dev-python/tornado/Manifest
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+DIST tornado-6.1.tar.gz 497359 BLAKE2B ed5981dec5cca962f907f97b7f906c1eef40d2b2b6d6cc16a21bd0a0a91ee58a60bea84b7ceeeff30b3462d707c56a5062c71d4ac8f25ca6a306ded6c6f072c5 SHA512 0ec1db1fad911182bda547c177a18b107b906cf66576443069e2b986cf041b3d4ebe08e5a168aa5cd3b56547f32f8b384bacaf74db89f582951d7b610b7494e8
diff --git a/dev-python/tornado/metadata.xml b/dev-python/tornado/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>marco@scardovi.com</email>
+		<name>Marco Scardovi</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Python</name>
+	</maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/tornado/tornado-6.1.ebuild b/dev-python/tornado/tornado-6.1.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_{7..9} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Spotify Web API client"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/ https://pypi.org/project/tornado/"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0 CC-BY-SA-3.0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+SLOT="0"
+RESTRICT="test" # only works on py2.7