diff --git a/dev-lua/lua-wcwidth/Manifest b/dev-lua/lua-wcwidth/Manifest
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+DIST lua-wcwidth-0.5.tar.gz 9954 BLAKE2B 0a10f786825b15336a3089283c2fce7e60004f2ed6d4c2065c793644d1ba3101696eb65b435b2b270a08611255d5801d26c6fc41b41a37509227064cd504f565 SHA512 730df41b5ba504fb0199983064ecd8c98aefb6c4eaa260c08bd59187ab9af0002a654af6787ed57257c2b16053ff0c4cf9a25b5fd58f4afe5a935a02961bf283
diff --git a/dev-lua/lua-wcwidth/lua-wcwidth-0.5.ebuild b/dev-lua/lua-wcwidth/lua-wcwidth-0.5.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+LUA_COMPAT=( lua5-{1..3} luajit )
+
+inherit lua
+
+DESCRIPTION="Pure Lua implementation of the wcwidth() function"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/aperezdc/lua-wcwidth/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/aperezdc/lua-wcwidth/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+LICENSE="MIT"
+
+SLOT="0"
+
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+IUSE="test"
+
+REQUIRED_USE="${LUA_REQUIRED_USE}"
+
+DEPEND="${LUA_DEPS}"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="test? ( dev-lua/dromozoa-utf8[${LUA_USEDEP}] )"
+
+lua_enable_tests busted
+
+lua_src_install() {
+	insinto "$(lua_get_lmod_dir)"
+	doins wcwidth.lua
+	insinto "$(lua_get_lmod_dir)/${PN}"
+	doins wcwidth/*.lua
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	lua_foreach_impl lua_src_install
+	dodoc README.md CHANGELOG.md
+}
diff --git a/dev-lua/lua-wcwidth/metadata.xml b/dev-lua/lua-wcwidth/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>suleyman@farajli.net</email>
+		<name>Suleyman Farajli</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">aperezdc/lua-wcwidth</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>