diff --git a/dev-nim/jester/Manifest b/dev-nim/jester/Manifest
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+DIST jester-0.5.0.tar.gz 27750 BLAKE2B 488d2076ecb84e75b50582084a69a8810fea4953421d2fd7aafc282629c2c636511ede82cf05ebaed8b84295d9c7b76fa244b59a35a8349f4e78ec25dd8142ad SHA512 e000635e89560aa267056f1753eec1718e8ccbf9ee966745a5bfe5db7337f102f43a76a0e8d89961f607c517ecab40919027e3a8a12e86355c76db01897a21b8
diff --git a/dev-nim/jester/jester-0.5.0.ebuild b/dev-nim/jester/jester-0.5.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit nimble
+
+DESCRIPTION="A sinatra-like web framework for Nim"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/dom96/jester
+	https://nimble.directory/pkg/jester
+"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/dom96/${PN}/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="${PV}"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE="test"
+
+# can't deselect broken tests
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+RDEPEND="dev-nim/httpbeast"
+DEPEND="
+	test? (
+		${RDEPEND}
+		dev-nim/asynctools
+	)
+"
+
+DOCS=( {changelog,readme,todo}.markdown )
+
+set_package_url "https://github.com/dom96/jester"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	sed "s|https://github.com/timotheecour/\(asynctools\)|\1|g" \
+		-i *.nimble || die
+	use test || nimble_comment_requires asynctools
+
+	sed "s/nimble \(c --hints:off\) -y/nim \1/g" -i tests/tester.nim || die
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	enim r tests/tester
+}
diff --git a/dev-nim/jester/metadata.xml b/dev-nim/jester/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>cyber+gentoo@sysrq.in</email>
+		<name>Anna</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">dom96/jester</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>