diff --git a/dev-octave/splines/Manifest b/dev-octave/splines/Manifest
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+DIST splines-1.3.4.tar.gz 36971 BLAKE2B 8748a6bd6021bf577e445b61f02b269240fad69d358b3266578ec0f0d25f09a04a3465e3e8bc71b970f2a180d61d81a2a562697207aa1c58ea43a5b72580dbfb SHA512 ca506df2b00acc94d291cc70a8601a950d73c3fe03308e4d6c1e9ababdd4f73312680e1e59a8769616300338b8623e687475d37815cf176d4eb9f32c4dedc6a0
diff --git a/dev-octave/splines/metadata.xml b/dev-octave/splines/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/splines/NEWS.html</changelog>
+    <doc lang="en">https://octave.sourceforge.io/splines/overview.html</doc>
+    <remote-id type="sourceforge">octave/splines</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-octave/splines/splines-1.3.4.ebuild b/dev-octave/splines/splines-1.3.4.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="Additional spline functions"
+HOMEPAGE="https://octave.sourceforge.io/ga/index.html"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3+ public-domain"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+DEPEND=">=sci-mathematics/octave-3.6.0"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"