diff --git a/dev-tex/tectonic/metadata.xml b/dev-tex/tectonic/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
+	<upstream>
+		<bugs-to>
+			https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/
+		</bugs-to>
+		<changelog>
+			https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/blob/release/CHANGELOG.md
+		</changelog>
+		<remote-id type="github">tectonic-typesetting/tectonic</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>