diff --git a/dev-lang/janet/Manifest b/dev-lang/janet/Manifest
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+DIST janet-1.16.1.tar.gz 493490 BLAKE2B 7542644a647d9d2ddd73d8e284f749cdad1900b8df2797c99a2f176c93eca412427b7f571493cfe62f64dd9c90bd12d8506b0f4b6b485ab2d3633e989e735cd9 SHA512 f4be0703676acad8896e41b46d79c4f6d99990c487028f1fd1abd681f756db119a06a5d6a0653b9301afcd62f45d6f1bb7876b9613c0ea28d7199e310a52895d
diff --git a/dev-lang/janet/janet-1.16.1.ebuild b/dev-lang/janet/janet-1.16.1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit meson
+
+DESCRIPTION="Janet is a functional and imperative programming language"
+HOMEPAGE="https://janet-lang.org/"
+
+if [[ "${PV}" == *9999* ]]; then
+	inherit git-r3
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/janet-lang/${PN}.git"
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://github.com/janet-lang/${PN}/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
diff --git a/dev-lang/janet/janet-9999.ebuild b/dev-lang/janet/janet-9999.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit meson
+
+DESCRIPTION="Janet is a functional and imperative programming language"
+HOMEPAGE="https://janet-lang.org/"
+
+if [[ "${PV}" == *9999* ]]; then
+	inherit git-r3
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/janet-lang/${PN}.git"
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://github.com/janet-lang/${PN}/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
diff --git a/dev-lang/janet/metadata.xml b/dev-lang/janet/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>xgqt@riseup.net</email>
+        <name>Maciej Barć</name>
+    </maintainer>
+    <longdescription lang="en">
+        Janet is a functional and imperative programming language
+        and bytecode interpreter. It is a lisp-like language,
+        but lists are replaced by other data structures (arrays,
+        tables (hash table), struct (immutable hash table), tuples).
+        The language also supports bridging to native code written in C,
+        meta-programming with macros, and bytecode assembly.
+    </longdescription>
+    <upstream>
+        <bugs-to>https://github.com/janet-lang/janet</bugs-to>
+        <doc>https://janet-lang.org/docs</doc>
+        <remote-id type="github">janet-lang/janet</remote-id>
+    </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>