diff --git a/dev-lua/basexx/Manifest b/dev-lua/basexx/Manifest
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+DIST basexx-0.4.1.tar.gz 8100 BLAKE2B 9a3e09eb4ddc7c9158096f50d52735711ee63618ada0175af8aac4ba906e95cbf3fe2750f3d0fff821e34b71b4a414f39a13313e9aac0960fc4f06d24c5e0422 SHA512 b52ac9573196129e5af3f6d4fdc69b26d77ed3c114cf95c3dc46aa58e5f288a3212a91e8ee48257609607a71088c24205ca79c5512f077a6e9cef6ad7f136ba0
diff --git a/dev-lua/basexx/basexx-0.4.1.ebuild b/dev-lua/basexx/basexx-0.4.1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+LUA_COMPAT=( lua5-{1..4} luajit )
+
+inherit lua
+
+DESCRIPTION="A base2, base16, base32, base64 and base85 library for Lua"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/aiq/basexx/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/aiq/${PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+REQUIRED_USE="${LUA_REQUIRED_USE}"
+
+DEPEND="${LUA_DEPS}"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+lua_enable_tests busted test
+
+lua_src_install() {
+	insinto $(lua_get_lmod_dir)
+	doins lib/${PN}.lua
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	lua_foreach_impl lua_src_install
+	einstalldocs
+}
diff --git a/dev-lua/basexx/metadata.xml b/dev-lua/basexx/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 type="person">
+		<email>nicolas.parlant@parhuet.fr</email>
+		<name>Nicolas PARLANT</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">aiq/basexx</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>