diff --git a/dev-python/ropemode/Manifest b/dev-python/ropemode/Manifest
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+DIST ropemode-0.4.tar.gz 12846 BLAKE2B 1cf2f2fd9528e078dc47e429631a3ebc7e1de82bb474435c6fe0c640d2d5bc706ed8d3c665b77836f07d715af991cd1cd202af9675429f70b0f7d47f05757d9e SHA512 b8d592b42a6cdeb73b123b94d24bbb0eedc38414b60c931c9d1a7bf3c6fc4958d2db0431f57f281987c89d3b27dd2e45701d386274024a2a79bf8183547c8489
diff --git a/dev-python/ropemode/metadata.xml b/dev-python/ropemode/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="project">
+		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Python</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="pypi">ropemode</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/ropemode/ropemode-0.4.ebuild b/dev-python/ropemode/ropemode-0.4.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_6 )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="A helper for using rope refactoring library in IDEs"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/python-rope/ropemode https://pypi.org/project/ropemode/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/python-rope/ropemode/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+# pypi releases don't include tests
+#SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE=""
+
+RDEPEND=">=dev-python/rope-0.9.4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+DEPEND="${DEPEND}
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+
+python_test() {
+	"${PYTHON}" ropemodetest.py || die "tests failed with ${EPYTHON}"
+}