diff --git a/dev-python/thriftrw/Manifest b/dev-python/thriftrw/Manifest
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+DIST thriftrw-1.8.1.tar.gz 1444094 BLAKE2B e573a07e8c9bbc227cc77edbf4a5f325168fbc722f1813c986d069c28d2e10e3152d079dd9632290520a98b67e1a167f8120b62fedf05fec968a64db815028cf SHA512 44e9da43f4bbcc5188e2b59352dabbec161d0f764b469ca084ad1f63dae6d64e2f6ac2744afb0adfa1a878e6fe6c9d0b576a6f08110928543353a6dd24d602bc
diff --git a/dev-python/thriftrw/metadata.xml b/dev-python/thriftrw/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>
+    <bugs-to>https://github.com/thriftrw/thriftrw-python/issues</bugs-to>
+    <remote-id type="pypi">thriftrw</remote-id>
+    <remote-id type="github">thriftrw/thriftrw-python</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/thriftrw/thriftrw-1.8.1.ebuild b/dev-python/thriftrw/thriftrw-1.8.1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI="8"
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="OpenTracing API for Python"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/thriftrw/thriftrw-python"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+SLOT="0"
+LICENSE="MIT"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-python/ply[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+DEPEND="
+	${RDEPEND}
+	>=dev-python/cython-0.17[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? (
+		>=dev-python/pytest-benchmark-3.0.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest