diff --git a/dev-python/check-manifest/Manifest b/dev-python/check-manifest/Manifest
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+DIST check-manifest-0.41.tar.gz 31080 BLAKE2B 470b5d56d04c6877df6ca1b76c5fa3db8505beae023298ad879c992a2727528d3de87bf4b8f35fde5141025d53535684d2213fd4a28c4584f8a5d5d1ddc61e35 SHA512 ee876c3d6b6c6b44f0701b34e64890e9edbb59a94ab9ea2c944ca02bbd65a6e659c4f2084d72851267636af041aeda006e992c44b30566b65978ec986f42ae84
diff --git a/dev-python/check-manifest/check-manifest-0.41.ebuild b/dev-python/check-manifest/check-manifest-0.41.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI="7"
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{6,7} )
+#DISTUTILS_USE_SETUPTOOLS=rdepend
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Tool to check the completeness of MANIFEST.in for Python packages"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/mgedmin/check-manifest
+	https://pypi.org/project/check-manifest
+"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/mgedmin/${PN}/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+#install requires, is right?
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-python/pep517[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/toml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+DEPEND="
+	${RDEPEND}
+	test? (
+		dev-python/mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests nose
diff --git a/dev-python/check-manifest/metadata.xml b/dev-python/check-manifest/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+
+<pkgmetadata>
+  <longdescription lang="en">
+Are you a Python developer? Have you uploaded packages to the Python Package Index? Have you accidentally uploaded broken packages with some files missing? If so, check-manifest is for you.
+  </longdescription>
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="github">mgedmin/check-manifest</remote-id>
+    <remote-id type="pypi">check-manifest</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>