diff --git a/dev-python/b2sdk/Manifest b/dev-python/b2sdk/Manifest
index 38390b803f..f74d62d009 100644
--- a/dev-python/b2sdk/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/b2sdk/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST b2sdk-1.12.0.tar.gz 273412 BLAKE2B e67cf20a6d7277c3d2990e6f6c46cf9df253b3a46a8c8672cbdc810ca851e8c0cd6b6033b9034ce00283a577e2838cdb0c15410b12546f87c480581b5920074b SHA512 4d5eff1f9efed551c474a472a4c531b67b3356e959dde1d1058aad797abd5fd160781700753019d62ac2f05bd711bf1e6a0b15c0f5f86fd93bab17347a83cb13
+DIST b2sdk-1.17.2.tar.gz 308753 BLAKE2B 07b6f71f604475d861257a1a7c567fc561a90c1c8c5768d21d63a82ff1c57240a81f8ebf96f1b3113cbea181140a128ebad9ed524e410a9c163a04a1de1ee2a0 SHA512 e618e18de16b021dc86a4b5ee9d315294eba5c3421318a4ea668681dc0420d6c3798f17c17be6475dddad7cfada8bf615916a5dc41ef905b8ecd7623b2a0c7bb
 DIST b2sdk-1.8.0.tar.gz 250511 BLAKE2B dad792589148fc3cad91fed1aeb43e02afca6f67f35e2f8239510606d601067abbdd36a3f0b2b2b8264697004d548d8077c999437f027c058072d7383d13c48c SHA512 ee1e1987f127835b2016bba9485c7a9d9503b4a675662a7364310fec7c963214805ed6bc15b3a1f07477f202bbe06325f480997eb202bcdfa1cb24f006d0a900
diff --git a/dev-python/b2sdk/b2sdk-1.17.2.ebuild b/dev-python/b2sdk/b2sdk-1.17.2.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..215e1a1425
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/b2sdk/b2sdk-1.17.2.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+# Copyright 2021-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} )
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="The client library for BackBlaze's B2 product"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/Backblaze/b2-sdk-python"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/Backblaze/b2-sdk-python/releases/download/v${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-1.17.2-disable-requirement-installation.patch"
+)
+
+RDEPEND="
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
+		>=dev-python/arrow-1.0.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/logfury-1.0.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/requests-2.9.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/tqdm-4.5.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	')
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+BDEPEND+=" test? (
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
+		>=dev-python/pytest-mock-3.6.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-python/pytest-lazy-fixture-0.6.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	')
+)"
+
+# These tests seem to require some b2 authentication (they're integration tests
+# so this is not unreasonable)
+python_test() {
+	epytest \
+		--deselect test/integration/test_large_files.py::TestLargeFile::test_large_file \
+		--deselect test/integration/test_raw_api.py::test_raw_api \
+		--deselect test/integration/test_download.py::TestDownload::test_large_file \
+		--deselect test/integration/test_download.py::TestDownload::test_small \
+		--deselect test/integration/test_download.py::TestDownload::test_small_unverified \
+		--deselect test/integration/test_download.py::TestDownload::test_gzip \
+		--deselect test/unit/account_info/test_sqlite_account_info.py::TestSqliteAccountProfileFileLocation::test_invalid_profile_name \
+		--deselect test/unit/account_info/test_sqlite_account_info.py::TestSqliteAccountProfileFileLocation::test_profile_and_file_name_conflict \
+		--deselect test/unit/account_info/test_sqlite_account_info.py::TestSqliteAccountProfileFileLocation::test_profile_and_env_var_conflict \
+		--deselect test/unit/account_info/test_sqlite_account_info.py::TestSqliteAccountProfileFileLocation::test_profile_and_xdg_config_env_var \
+		--deselect test/unit/account_info/test_sqlite_account_info.py::TestSqliteAccountProfileFileLocation::test_profile \
+		--deselect test/unit/account_info/test_sqlite_account_info.py::TestSqliteAccountProfileFileLocation::test_file_name \
+		--deselect test/unit/account_info/test_sqlite_account_info.py::TestSqliteAccountProfileFileLocation::test_env_var \
+		--deselect test/unit/account_info/test_sqlite_account_info.py::TestSqliteAccountProfileFileLocation::test_default_file_if_exists \
+		--deselect test/unit/account_info/test_sqlite_account_info.py::TestSqliteAccountProfileFileLocation::test_xdg_config_env_var \
+		--deselect test/unit/account_info/test_sqlite_account_info.py::TestSqliteAccountProfileFileLocation::test_default_file
+}
diff --git a/dev-python/b2sdk/files/b2sdk-1.17.2-disable-requirement-installation.patch b/dev-python/b2sdk/files/b2sdk-1.17.2-disable-requirement-installation.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d6d1952b07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/b2sdk/files/b2sdk-1.17.2-disable-requirement-installation.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# This will disable the setup.py features that attempt to install missing
+# requirements using pip
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ setup(
+     # your project is installed. For an analysis of "install_requires" vs pip's
+     # requirements files see:
+     # https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/requirements.html
+-    install_requires=read_requirements(),
++    # install_requires=read_requirements(),
+ 
+     # List additional groups of dependencies here (e.g. development
+     # dependencies). You can install these using the following syntax,
+@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ setup(
+     # for example:
+     # $ pip install -e .[dev,test]
+     extras_require={'doc': read_requirements('doc')},
+-    setup_requires=['setuptools_scm<6.0'],
++    # setup_requires=['setuptools_scm<6.0'],
+     use_scm_version=True,
+ 
+     # If there are data files included in your packages that need to be