diff --git a/dev-ml/base-bytes/base-bytes-0.ebuild b/dev-ml/base-bytes/base-bytes-0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DESCRIPTION="Bytes library distributed with the OCaml compiler"
+HOMEPAGE="https://opam.ocaml.org/packages/base-bytes/"
+
+LICENSE="QPL-1.0 LGPL-2"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+SLOT="0"
+
+RDEPEND="dev-lang/ocaml"
diff --git a/dev-ml/base-bytes/metadata.xml b/dev-ml/base-bytes/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>
+</pkgmetadata>