diff --git a/dev-R/boot/Manifest b/dev-R/boot/Manifest
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+DIST boot_1.3-28.tar.gz 236842 BLAKE2B 38d0d7191779f280d47910fe5d6bcb39954d4115e7c0b9481f918c537046c550eaf139592552e5ac9192e5965aba379fb1954323cc000b88d32f34afb959142b SHA512 e274f3de208cf4f9f74102a82ff34a32e92928328353d77ac9a99e1e34d66a65e941a66656367668bd7fe5633484eff8dcfa42a9e5957db72368c604e2a16007
diff --git a/dev-R/boot/boot-1.3.28.ebuild b/dev-R/boot/boot-1.3.28.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+MYPV="$(ver_rs 2 -)"
+
+inherit R-packages
+
+DESCRIPTION="Bootstrap Functions (Originally by Angelo Canty for S)"
+SRC_URI="mirror://cran/src/contrib/${PN}_${MYPV}.tar.gz"
+
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='public-domain'
+
+DEPEND="
+	>=dev-lang/R-3.0.0
+	!dev-lang/R[-minimal]
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+SUGGESTED_PACKAGES="
+	virtual/MASS
+	virtual/survival
+"
diff --git a/dev-R/boot/metadata.xml b/dev-R/boot/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>me@r0bert.dev</email>
+		<name>Robert Greener</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription lang="en">Functions and datasets for bootstrapping from the book "Bootstrap Methods and Their Application" by A. C. Davison and D. V. Hinkley (1997, CUP), originally written by Angelo Canty for S.</longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<maintainer>
+			<name>Brian Ripley</name>
+			<email>ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk</email>
+		</maintainer>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>