diff --git a/dev-python/dotmap/Manifest b/dev-python/dotmap/Manifest
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+DIST dotmap-1.3.8.tar.gz 9973 BLAKE2B cbf90f7c32b6e64217c9d6ccb13a3d89cf4d5a15704abda76c0ee9914b30882c1bf6993a4b74b7dbb269604f1149102f24da27de4136b7adfefd277861826d2e SHA512 c164b8c6d61d9d0bc66c665df8fe8d376dabc0f994824bd44cade504839a053b9a95973be1d8611f961faeac109d8dfeca93e27b28a12b35c557d22e669772a7
diff --git a/dev-python/dotmap/dotmap-1.3.8.ebuild b/dev-python/dotmap/dotmap-1.3.8.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+#don't bump to python 3.10 until https://github.com/drgrib/dotmap/issues/76 is resolved
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..9} pypy3 )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Dot access dictionary with dynamic hierarchy creation and ordered iteration"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/drgrib/dotmap"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/drgrib/dotmap/archive/refs/tags/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+SLOT="0"
+
+distutils_enable_tests unittest
diff --git a/dev-python/dotmap/metadata.xml b/dev-python/dotmap/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">
+      <email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
+      <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
+    </maintainer>
+    <upstream>
+        <bugs-to>https://github.com/drgrib/dotmap/issues</bugs-to>
+        <remote-id type="github">drgrib/dotmap</remote-id>
+        <remote-id type="pypi">dotmap</remote-id>
+    </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>