diff --git a/app-doc/ford/Manifest b/app-doc/ford/Manifest
index e4cfe9731f..700dc94469 100644
--- a/app-doc/ford/Manifest
+++ b/app-doc/ford/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
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+DIST FORD-6.1.7.tar.gz 5841796 BLAKE2B 7a81cc46521cf9d293c1da70457124be91879ee8a6a2be9152d3c3f5b68ae5621fceeba62ed82a13dadaa7d508ae0ed14ff5b583fb134b0341ff777121300d15 SHA512 fad397e439facbbca50879972633ac5a85aa57b4fc4cbcf5deeb17e8e4964aa2d5182ef3ad72fd0d3bf1f113bb61ba0bb439cc9b2890bda185842770ad3edb2c
diff --git a/app-doc/ford/ford-6.1.7.ebuild b/app-doc/ford/ford-6.1.7.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2293d62f54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-doc/ford/ford-6.1.7.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+MY_PN="FORD"
+DESCRIPTION="FORD, automatic documentation generator for modern Fortran programs"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/Fortran-FOSS-Programmers/ford"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${MY_PN:0:1}/${MY_PN}/${MY_PN}-${PV}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="test"
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_PN}-${PV}"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-python/beautifulsoup4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/graphviz[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/jinja[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/markdown[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/markdown-include[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/md-environ[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/pygments[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/tqdm[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/toposort[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+
+DOCS=( CHANGELOG.md README.md README.rst )
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+python_test(){
+	# The 'test/test_projects' tests use subprocess, i.e. require FORD to be installed.
+	distutils_install_for_testing
+	distutils-r1_python_test
+}