diff --git a/sys-boot/bmap-tools/Manifest b/sys-boot/bmap-tools/Manifest
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+DIST bmap-tools-3.6.tar.gz 97815 BLAKE2B 3c6728386d66283a4df0376c90d2eafc670bba835ca97ebe25ab12f5eb1f745dea9a55d8c287c815306b9d603b6d804f9711a19b2df23870355983ebce4c0a07 SHA512 a55fe88d8f136b39f2bb92690322ae65d66ae1ae0454050d74bd37a39d69dca6428ba05ff42d2faf8e83f8f8342d882caaf8bb45aa00c74bbd5e4b12289a406a
diff --git a/sys-boot/bmap-tools/bmap-tools-3.6-r1.ebuild b/sys-boot/bmap-tools/bmap-tools-3.6-r1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2020-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} )
+DISTUTILS_USE_SETUPTOOLS=rdepend
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Bmaptool is a tool for creating and copyng files using block maps"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/intel/bmap-tools"
+
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/intel/bmap-tools/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+RESTRICT="test" # missing python slot fot backports-* packages
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
+
+RDEPEND="dev-python/six"
+
+# leave it here until backports-* are ported into python3.9 and 10
+
+#DEPEND="
+#	${RDEPEND}
+#	test? (
+#		dev-python/backports-tempfile[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+#		dev-python/mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+#		dev-python/nose[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+#	)
+#"
+
+python_install_all() {
+	distutils-r1_python_install_all
+}
+
+#distutils_enable_tests nose
diff --git a/sys-boot/bmap-tools/bmap-tools-3.6-r2.ebuild b/sys-boot/bmap-tools/bmap-tools-3.6-r2.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Bmaptool is a tool for creating and copyng files using block maps"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/intel/bmap-tools"
+
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/intel/bmap-tools/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+RESTRICT="test" # missing python slot fot backports-* packages
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
+
+RDEPEND="dev-python/six"
+
+# leave it here until backports-* are ported into python3.9 and 10
+
+#DEPEND="
+#	${RDEPEND}
+#	test? (
+#		dev-python/backports-tempfile[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+#		dev-python/mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+#		dev-python/nose[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+#	)
+#"
+
+python_install_all() {
+	distutils-r1_python_install_all
+}
+
+#distutils_enable_tests nose
diff --git a/sys-boot/bmap-tools/bmap-tools-3.6-r3.ebuild b/sys-boot/bmap-tools/bmap-tools-3.6-r3.ebuild
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+++ b/sys-boot/bmap-tools/bmap-tools-3.6-r3.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+MY_P="bmap-tools-${PV}"
+
+DESCRIPTION="Bmaptool is a tool for creating and copyng files using block maps"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/intel/bmap-tools"
+
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/intel/bmap-tools/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+RESTRICT="test" # missing python slot fot backports-* packages
+
+RDEPEND="dev-python/six"
+
+# leave it here until backports-* are ported into python3.9 and 10
+
+#DEPEND="
+#	${RDEPEND}
+#	test? (
+#		dev-python/backports-tempfile[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+#		dev-python/mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+#		dev-python/nose[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+#	)
+#"
+
+python_install_all() {
+	distutils-r1_python_install_all
+}
+
+#distutils_enable_tests nose
diff --git a/sys-boot/bmap-tools/metadata.xml b/sys-boot/bmap-tools/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>
+</pkgmetadata>