diff --git a/dev-nim/packedjson/Manifest b/dev-nim/packedjson/Manifest
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-nim/packedjson/Manifest
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+DIST packedjson-0.2.2.tar.gz 13748 BLAKE2B 44d8d7b4d9e8e10ea5ba1893185d8bcf0d05d735fb24d9d82618f23c9b6f03a4653ddab32e5059609cd619f358d73972504d7231bc6143d60dd84a875b382bbf SHA512 0e0493e55b8bf05624d0e995afad455e7fcf5018985f397feb9b1cf99830836e760fb91b68ec718c9488bb592ad59556d7f737a415fa75f248455858ed304123
diff --git a/dev-nim/packedjson/metadata.xml b/dev-nim/packedjson/metadata.xml
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+++ b/dev-nim/packedjson/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>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">Araq/packedjson</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-nim/packedjson/packedjson-0.2.2.ebuild b/dev-nim/packedjson/packedjson-0.2.2.ebuild
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index 0000000000..cb4494757b
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+# Copyright 2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit nimble
+
+DESCRIPTION="an alternative Nim implementation for JSON"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/Araq/packedjson
+	https://nimble.directory/pkg/packedjson
+"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/Araq/${PN}/archive/refs/tags/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="${PV}"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+set_package_url "https://github.com/Araq/packedjson"
+
+src_test() {
+	enim r ${PN}.nim | tee "${T}"/tests.out
+	grep -q "test failed" "${T}"/tests.out && die "tests failed"
+}