diff --git a/dev-crystal/kemal/Manifest b/dev-crystal/kemal/Manifest
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+DIST kemal-1.3.0.tar.gz 49862 BLAKE2B b99ce90c2dcc3d3634689c47e91955e9fbbadfe05f2114e8eee582a61921dd82b8caa6e4dd0d4b58ec00482237b08b216d6a3849d7382ff4d7823de62409dbfe SHA512 00b12d7bf74679dde96c929a515e7db62c455be348a33d06c0aaf182e17655be3214d523f301318315ab28400eb626f4a5b7693fd9e8bf7e99d6ded7181dbbea
diff --git a/dev-crystal/kemal/kemal-1.3.0.ebuild b/dev-crystal/kemal/kemal-1.3.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit shards
+
+DESCRIPTION="Lightning Fast, Super Simple web framework"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://kemalcr.com/
+	https://github.com/kemalcr/kemal
+"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/kemalcr/${PN}/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-crystal/exception_page
+	dev-crystal/radix
+"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	# 'crystal eval' fails
+	rm spec/run_spec.cr || die
+}
diff --git a/dev-crystal/kemal/metadata.xml b/dev-crystal/kemal/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>
+</pkgmetadata>