diff --git a/dev-lua/croissant/Manifest b/dev-lua/croissant/Manifest
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+DIST croissant-0.0.1.tar.gz 374425 BLAKE2B 54f6bd31d703b6a8383afcfe2d22b84c42b0543149df73c7e8e25d0fd97a59988867f0bd38d38aeed65fb222c31ac6a5a757fbb51041b3f288c6b0e193181ce1 SHA512 98fee3c1df77795c166f96661a7f9547fa7012665a134a131c8445f83606fa2c84d93e0eacb7c887d439ddd825734001a8218f2c9bbd0dd327f46ffd1596291e
diff --git a/dev-lua/croissant/croissant-0.0.1.ebuild b/dev-lua/croissant/croissant-0.0.1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+# sirocco dependency does not yet support newer Lua implementations
+LUA_COMPAT=( lua5-1 luajit )
+
+inherit lua
+
+DESCRIPTION="A Lua REPL and debugger "
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/giann/croissant"
+EGIT_COMMIT="dc633a0ac3b5bcab9b72b660e926af80944125b3"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/giann/croissant/archive/${EGIT_COMMIT}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${EGIT_COMMIT}"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+IUSE="examples"
+REQUIRED_USE="${LUA_REQUIRED_USE}"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-lua/lua-term[${LUA_USEDEP}]
+	dev-lua/sirocco[${LUA_USEDEP}]
+	dev-lua/hump[${LUA_USEDEP}]
+	dev-lua/lpeg[${LUA_USEDEP}]
+	dev-lua/lua-argparse[${LUA_USEDEP}]
+	dev-lua/compat53[${LUA_USEDEP}]
+	${LUA_DEPS}
+"
+
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+
+lua_src_install() {
+	insinto "$(lua_get_lmod_dir)/${PN}"
+	doins croissant/*.lua
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	lua_foreach_impl lua_src_install
+	dobin bin/croissant
+	dodoc README.md
+	if use examples; then
+		docinto examples
+		dodoc debugtest.lua
+	fi
+}
diff --git a/dev-lua/croissant/metadata.xml b/dev-lua/croissant/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>suleyman@farajli.net</email>
+		<name>Suleyman Farajli</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">giann/croissant</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>