diff --git a/dev-python/kazoo/Manifest b/dev-python/kazoo/Manifest
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+++ b/dev-python/kazoo/Manifest
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+DIST kazoo-2.8.0.tar.gz 170037 BLAKE2B feded24671d6f4f5f7973b76048e5b8416e4b56aabdd9d32a8ff27283b5e8578545cee62a385f764202ffb4e58cf083bd2c182dff9bf255e69dd1de83e88db43 SHA512 ae244a70356274d6259d255e60a5dff00eb22bcf16d5b25f9d9a03178619dacb57414905b473801347b4ec1a19e5600be6c7040a5e53b67b81b440c304c95cc0
diff --git a/dev-python/kazoo/kazoo-2.8.0.ebuild b/dev-python/kazoo/kazoo-2.8.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} pypy3 )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="kazoo implements a higher level API to Apache Zookeeper for Python clients."
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://pypi.org/project/kazoo/
+	https://github.com/python-zk/kazoo
+"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${P:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+RDEPEND=""
+DEPEND="
+	${REDEPEND}
+	dev-python/six[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	test? (
+		dev-python/mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/objgraph[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pytest-xdist[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
diff --git a/dev-python/kazoo/metadata.xml b/dev-python/kazoo/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>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
+    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="github">python-zk/kazoo</remote-id>
+    <remote-id type="pypi">kazoo</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>