diff --git a/dev-octave/quaternion/Manifest b/dev-octave/quaternion/Manifest
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+DIST quaternion-2.4.0.tar.gz 236821 BLAKE2B b80d4853c50961dca92cc2d07cd76202c6b58615f729beeeb68d38b689af08936a2d1506e4145416e3c883e34ae3b17e567776932088f78ffefbcb45ba0d84f3 SHA512 cfdeaee08b8c17adb4f5e3ef4bdf8e55d3dad80cc4223dcdcf6b73555109589830ae74c9d0c44b67b91d7774996a1064d8f97a8658de6f22f0acffbb17497b6b
diff --git a/dev-octave/quaternion/metadata.xml b/dev-octave/quaternion/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>
+    <changelog>https://octave.sourceforge.io/quaternion/NEWS.html</changelog>
+    <doc lang="en">https://octave.sourceforge.io/quaternion/overview.html</doc>
+    <remote-id type="sourceforge">octave/quaternion</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-octave/quaternion/quaternion-2.4.0.ebuild b/dev-octave/quaternion/quaternion-2.4.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit octaveforge
+
+DESCRIPTION="Quaternion package for GNU Octave, includes a quaternion class"
+HOMEPAGE="https://octave.sourceforge.io/quaternion/index.html"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+DEPEND=">=sci-mathematics/octave-3.8.0"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"