diff --git a/dev-python/text-unidecode/Manifest b/dev-python/text-unidecode/Manifest
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+DIST text-unidecode-1.3.tar.gz 76885 BLAKE2B b783963b4fce6588d45d48a498de566c08df83ae62c72caf599648df195eb94b7c02090503590ab8c747af0d210847ddfbf0772289e170361914db20c049828e SHA512 aeaf0e79bd0545ca7a4fe700d5a7dac1d5900841fcfe8a5a568c84ba7d3bee5f75eaac0531f4a01d689a550ac5bc7e1acaeb8132293f220db8387fae2eb6a150
diff --git a/dev-python/text-unidecode/metadata.xml b/dev-python/text-unidecode/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
+    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="pypi">text-unidecode</remote-id>
+    <maintainer status="unknown">
+      <email>kmike84@gmail.com</email>
+      <name>Mikhail Korobov</name>
+    </maintainer>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/text-unidecode/text-unidecode-1.3.ebuild b/dev-python/text-unidecode/text-unidecode-1.3.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI="7"
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( pypy3 python3_{6,7,8} )
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="The most basic Text::Unidecode port"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/kmike/text-unidecode"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${P:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="|| ( Artistic GPL-1 GPL-2+ )"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="test"
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+
+DEPEND="test? ( dev-python/pytest )"
+RDEPEND=""
+
+python_prepare_all() {
+	sed -i '/pytest-runner/d' setup.py
+	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
+}
+
+python_test() {
+	distutils_install_for_testing
+	cd "${TEST_DIR}" || die
+	cp "${S}/test_unidecode.py" . || die
+	cp "${S}/setup.cfg" . || die
+	pytest || die "Tests fail with ${EPYTHON}"
+}