diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index 56c70192a..32aceee9b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
   * unpin click-log from bellows-18.1-r1
   * unpin some versions in openwrt-luci-rpc-1.1.3-r2
   * python-synology-0.8.2-r1, remove urllib3 version limit
+  * restore (still needed) importlib_metadata-1.6.0-r1
 
 2020-08-26
   * fix https://git.edevau.net/onkelbeh/HomeAssistantRepository/issues/18#issuecomment-124
diff --git a/dev-python/importlib_metadata/Manifest b/dev-python/importlib_metadata/Manifest
index 94b428b2a..bc04dde22 100644
--- a/dev-python/importlib_metadata/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/importlib_metadata/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 DIST importlib_metadata-1.3.0.tar.gz 26323 BLAKE2B a460a78856966fcbb20559c12f5da9ccfe82c9faa3745850e156a6b07db5d597138c1eaac583838ea24835e6c45c4cf8aab8474e5e15ba7de981eb1ad6b5de14 SHA512 45d09cbbbceee80a4769f2d374a3c4b511fda56a100ad1a6fc7cedf9a0cd251600c960430c608c7bcd60bdd9a0117f83025ed7b05f9f6a53edc791d128e8b0d7
+DIST importlib_metadata-1.6.0.tar.gz 27136 BLAKE2B 55a987a75c78ff39fc5ac5d586cc7b7f9e7340edce505387be22cb291b53dec87e4f362bdb3f9a13f2797b6806f783b3cf0858c9db298266379f706402a43331 SHA512 4108d84a39da3c892a3b448027cca2835f6a68ac790b51b7cc4eb4ec925f5e8322847d86d8e89fbcec474258f592220f283116c82c536130aab70b96cea0435c
 EBUILD importlib_metadata-1.3.0.ebuild 1073 BLAKE2B f0be263465f6b9e271536e813dcf5b600e7e2f1f39a74f902e097bfa18d512e65e8b4ba2990377a23f61e4ba4dc5f84176f504d9ead0182a317ff4fe8ac17ae3 SHA512 afc41aead2f3d992a1ab4907d61ab329421297ee6e931aac7a3e641fe43d0281cfc449eef92cb4c797325180102260261eed5811f11f9597fb352a4c7011f470
+EBUILD importlib_metadata-1.6.0-r1.ebuild 1229 BLAKE2B 3672433212a43e40b6d7021586e6f6a09954a6a38b785463ab39fb56612faf05952100afd7b9c79e991f303c505b6deee6bf0013a9e2861e53c7bae36e575df1 SHA512 55abc3d9561efcbce67f47cca55458b268faa147c468ff788a84d263bd5e3f20eef3ea607577418b382c3dc0ac596d16871283617d327d5bc67f9b0a2126506d
 MISC metadata.xml 575 BLAKE2B fd32bd69ffa26679f44ae19012bf57e77219abea01918062e2290e48121209353d5a50eb2aa028ca8359b3c8f40a35c1cc4c48e2f05cb855a3016f2f01da41f2 SHA512 fdb2a87b50b50fd23d97c7dd9875958ad9ae6474f6e0a0e5fb8df12ed381c30e21a71ae2eaf3baf03ae1ab973c0c7827c8a84fa09c8ca52eb938439e4f66e17d
diff --git a/dev-python/importlib_metadata/importlib_metadata-1.6.0-r1.ebuild b/dev-python/importlib_metadata/importlib_metadata-1.6.0-r1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..02bf0a0c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/importlib_metadata/importlib_metadata-1.6.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( pypy3 python{2_7,3_{6,7,8}} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Read metadata from Python packages"
+HOMEPAGE="https://importlib-metadata.readthedocs.io/"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-python/zipp[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep '>=dev-python/configparser-3.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]' -2)
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep 'dev-python/contextlib2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]' -2)
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep 'dev-python/pathlib2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]' -2)
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	test? (
+		${RDEPEND}
+		$(python_gen_cond_dep 'dev-python/importlib_resources[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]' pypy3 python{2_7,3_6})
+		dev-python/packaging[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pyfakefs[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+distutils_enable_sphinx "${PN}/docs" \
+	'>=dev-python/rst-linker-1.9'
+distutils_enable_tests unittest
+
+python_prepare_all() {
+	# remove dep on setuptools_scm
+	sed -i -r "s:use_scm_version=.+,:version='${PV}',:" \
+		setup.py || die
+	sed -i -e 's:setuptools-scm::' setup.cfg || die
+
+	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
+}