diff --git a/app-editors/featherpad/Manifest b/app-editors/featherpad/Manifest
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+DIST featherpad-0.17.2.tar.gz 921192 BLAKE2B 38d0520c918dbae0b46f2a6d1a3f553f28ef0351b017600d4cc21cce61eb69bf08a80c118dfb794af3489cbb10c93d59c2b8effc049eccbd57aaefc403bddb29 SHA512 39721faa4c0b5c0920c9fdcbfaafe864b6e649145ec8b51ea1f3ca3ec038119caaf0a812362e226fd4e699d0f385508f1fb12992b2219f995b8486779d06b872
diff --git a/app-editors/featherpad/featherpad-0.17.2.ebuild b/app-editors/featherpad/featherpad-0.17.2.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit xdg qmake-utils
+
+MY_P="${P/featherpad/FeatherPad}"
+
+DESCRIPTION="Lightweight Qt5 Plain-Text Editor for Linux"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/tsujan/FeatherPad"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/tsujan/FeatherPad/archive/V${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+RDEPEND="app-text/hunspell
+	dev-qt/qtcore:5
+	dev-qt/qtgui:5
+	dev-qt/qtnetwork:5
+	dev-qt/qtprintsupport:5
+	dev-qt/qtsvg:5
+	dev-qt/qtwidgets:5
+	dev-qt/qtx11extras:5"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-qt/linguist-tools:5"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
+
+src_configure() {
+	eqmake5
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	emake INSTALL_ROOT="${ED}" install
+}
diff --git a/app-editors/featherpad/metadata.xml b/app-editors/featherpad/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>hansfn@gmail.com</email>
+        <name>Hans Fredrik Nordhaug</name>
+    </maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>