diff --git a/dev-python/ujson/Manifest b/dev-python/ujson/Manifest
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+++ b/dev-python/ujson/Manifest
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+DIST ujson-4.0.2.tar.gz 7129106 BLAKE2B 8ebf68c6bac65100baeee4f95f175ada09ba48b9efe1876b7b1ff2c3cf87d1a50d8300a981fd97eac73e4c5a70af1b7fddcd468aa6067aac8a2e44133f397057 SHA512 ece12d4407cb7cdb647597ff7fc32e4390fc4c790c59e764da5c5644e5dec470c48cb6a6aaa18429cb713643e5205c5d26b2d2d2195bc90f3a171615d3dbd80d
diff --git a/dev-python/ujson/metadata.xml b/dev-python/ujson/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>
+    <upstream>
+        <bugs-to>https://github.com/ultrajson/ultrajson/issues</bugs-to>
+        <remote-id type="github">ultrajson/ultrajson</remote-id>
+        <remote-id type="pypi">ujson</remote-id>
+    </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/ujson/ujson-4.0.2.ebuild b/dev-python/ujson/ujson-4.0.2.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} pypy3 )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Ultra fast JSON encoder and decoder for Python"
+HOMEPAGE="https://pypi.org/project/ujson"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+IUSE="test"
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/setuptools_scm[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+
+python_test() {
+	"${EPYTHON}" tests/test_ujson.py || die
+}