diff --git a/sci-electronics/liblxi/Manifest b/sci-electronics/liblxi/Manifest
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+DIST liblxi-1.16.tar.gz 24667 BLAKE2B b05e196ba9b2f902d351d6b4609838c8441b8a835885ea1087659dedb5f41dc95ab65dad2744604fc2226c1dd8b3b1def0bf1ebd27e96214a0f63580361334d1 SHA512 371b68a183f8f3674ad6efbc6d29f0db5c1e0ce3846a832d3db2bded01e54aee2ed5e1849d2570d7f1cde72a360c4af1cb67fd3817f5b925ce90f44a1d5820c0
diff --git a/sci-electronics/liblxi/liblxi-1.16.ebuild b/sci-electronics/liblxi/liblxi-1.16.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit meson-multilib
+
+DESCRIPTION="Implementation of the LAN eXtensions for Instrumentation (LXI)"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/lxi-tools/liblxi"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/lxi-tools/${PN}/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE=""
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=net-libs/libtirpc-1.3.2
+	>=dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.14-r1
+	>=net-dns/avahi-0.8-r5
+"
+
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+
+BDEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig"
diff --git a/sci-electronics/liblxi/metadata.xml b/sci-electronics/liblxi/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>gentoo@taujhe.de</email>
+    <description>Jan Henke</description>
+  </maintainer>
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="github">lxi-tools/liblxi</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+  <longdescription>
+    liblxi is an open source software library which offers a simple API 
+    for communicating with LXI compatible instruments. The API allows 
+    applications to discover instruments on your network, send SCPI 
+    commands, and receive responses.
+  </longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>