diff --git a/dev-octave/optiminterp/Manifest b/dev-octave/optiminterp/Manifest
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+DIST octaveforge_configure 75 BLAKE2B a6d08088e51628113f7ee2d125fad93a20978cdec60d30cd6628a6056b127968ccf0bc58d2a01166ecc68e8e1ff25518ecf0a2fff69f1ccf63ba2e95eb327db2 SHA512 f293f8ac550953d7c758dadd1bfbf57754a725e6480e8f11b85b883370989b323324492a16118a9b4bfa897a6720f7f20776754cbf763c61bfa10c90191d9a8f
+DIST optiminterp-0.3.7.tar.gz 60514 BLAKE2B f69040359ffd433bc88885a8c95af3b34503e04184b407e635bdc19ec0f46b6fc96882af83c5e56631b3d62893d62e5105b746f04d849938c1ce5acc99e1faa9 SHA512 d32d4d407f060be472e50267bf487f403caac3d72021a6d28b17d347e765a4b4e4d79b9e2c80d9e776db35bfc67d03f175127f7d759d979a11c4ffd7fd255cc8
diff --git a/dev-octave/optiminterp/metadata.xml b/dev-octave/optiminterp/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/optiminterp/NEWS.html</changelog>
+    <doc lang="en">https://octave.sourceforge.io/optiminterp/overview.html</doc>
+    <remote-id type="sourceforge">octave/optiminterp</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-octave/optiminterp/optiminterp-0.3.7.ebuild b/dev-octave/optiminterp/optiminterp-0.3.7.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="An optimal interpolation toolbox for octave"
+HOMEPAGE="https://octave.sourceforge.io/optiminterp/index.html"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+DEPEND=">=sci-mathematics/octave-4.0.0"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"