diff --git a/dev-octave/miscellaneous/Manifest b/dev-octave/miscellaneous/Manifest
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index 0000000000..029570490c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-octave/miscellaneous/Manifest
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+DIST miscellaneous-1.3.0.tar.gz 109759 BLAKE2B 76f3bb37173dbc693ac0a050915e81963a51feb1c69242db1525fe9a461f7e4a8b5f3d55f9c1cd8380cc7f225b7adba5288e3a23d05c8a7f483e1c77be6fa9ec SHA512 d5d00dfb6a6a50374bec7942b1004a13eda5fae9da425f3038a8b49554bfc3e1f7e1dc7d111329831266b207c883e335edadb69d147dc8d0029015fd46cfc21a
+DIST octaveforge_configure 75 BLAKE2B a6d08088e51628113f7ee2d125fad93a20978cdec60d30cd6628a6056b127968ccf0bc58d2a01166ecc68e8e1ff25518ecf0a2fff69f1ccf63ba2e95eb327db2 SHA512 f293f8ac550953d7c758dadd1bfbf57754a725e6480e8f11b85b883370989b323324492a16118a9b4bfa897a6720f7f20776754cbf763c61bfa10c90191d9a8f
diff --git a/dev-octave/miscellaneous/metadata.xml b/dev-octave/miscellaneous/metadata.xml
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+++ b/dev-octave/miscellaneous/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">
+    <description>co-maintainers welcome</description>
+    <email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
+    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <upstream>
+    <changelog>https://octave.sourceforge.io/miscellaneous/NEWS.html</changelog>
+    <doc lang="en">https://octave.sourceforge.io/miscellaneous/overview.html</doc>
+    <remote-id type="sourceforge">octave/miscellaneous</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-octave/miscellaneous/miscellaneous-1.3.0.ebuild b/dev-octave/miscellaneous/miscellaneous-1.3.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit octaveforge
+
+DESCRIPTION="Miscellaneous tools that don't fit somewhere else"
+HOMEPAGE="https://octave.sourceforge.io/miscellaneous/index.html"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+DEPEND="
+	sci-calculators/units
+	>=sci-mathematics/octave-3.8.0
+	sys-libs/libtermcap-compat
+	sys-libs/ncurses-compat
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"