diff --git a/dev-ml/uri/Manifest b/dev-ml/uri/Manifest
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+++ b/dev-ml/uri/Manifest
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+DIST ocaml-uri-4.2.0.tar.gz 231300 BLAKE2B d73ca1dc1bb372cf160dfb2a1730132fa5139a68b97bf59554f75754dc57b5d83eaf5bc14c6e1962a9f01dcf98b3f10e9eec10d4cd4701073ebfd2b3d443098f SHA512 25510db4d6a5491ab02e7c62360f91b95e6cd3b5892311c7d3ef159be15906eab849728f96687082852e1ab8ff6e3d9f51831229780abc4ed8cb6acff50aa1b9
diff --git a/dev-ml/uri/metadata.xml b/dev-ml/uri/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>
+		<remote-id type="github">mirage/ocaml-uri</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-ml/uri/uri-4.2.0.ebuild b/dev-ml/uri/uri-4.2.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit dune
+
+DESCRIPTION="RFC3986 URI parsing library for OCaml"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/mirage/ocaml-uri"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/mirage/ocaml-uri/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ocaml-${P}.tar.gz"
+S="${WORKDIR}/ocaml-${P}"
+
+LICENSE="ISC"
+SLOT="0/${PV}"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE="ocamlopt"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-ml/angstrom
+	dev-ml/ppx_sexp_conv
+	dev-ml/re
+	dev-ml/sexplib0
+	dev-ml/stringext
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+
+src_install() {
+	dune_src_install uri
+	dune_src_install uri-re
+	dune_src_install uri-sexp
+}