diff --git a/dev-python/whitenoise/Manifest b/dev-python/whitenoise/Manifest
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+DIST whitenoise-6.12.0.tar.gz 107611 BLAKE2B 539d0adf21f4377d7654603dc9563f1369ccb59c19245cd09aea3f9766714d175b385b5b9fbb59697fd2477d82add8950fa149a946a07397177a54475d8d9a1a SHA512 40d8731f3419489208e3bbd9f89ed379b5795cd5f25b18c9cca38ab45aa91d852d486247a48a6212d779755448ad1e4c76e92ef7ee8505e4c2a1369bf375e968
diff --git a/dev-python/whitenoise/metadata.xml b/dev-python/whitenoise/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">
+    <name>Pavel Sobolev</name>
+    <email>contact@paveloom.dev</email>
+  </maintainer>
+  <upstream>
+    <bugs-to>https://github.com/evansd/whitenoise/issues</bugs-to>
+    <remote-id type="github">evansd/whitenoise</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/whitenoise/whitenoise-6.12.0.ebuild b/dev-python/whitenoise/whitenoise-6.12.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{13..15} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1 optfeature
+
+DESCRIPTION="Radically simplified static file serving for Python web apps"
+HOMEPAGE="https://whitenoise.readthedocs.io/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/evansd/whitenoise/archive/refs/tags/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-python/django[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	test? (
+		app-arch/brotli[${PYTHON_USEDEP},python]
+	)
+"
+
+EPYTEST_PLUGINS=()
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	optfeature "Brotli compression" "app-arch/brotli[python]"
+}