diff --git a/dev-python/pycups/Manifest b/dev-python/pycups/Manifest
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+DIST pycups-1.9.73.tar.bz2 52732 BLAKE2B a6c9750970548ba85cdef4041f716491e9b0cf4273cb5381bca8e57deab457affaa62eccf74d36eb3f8b047e5142c952e56e7e624f85ed7959a769f568824f26 SHA512 ee893d64f1645b71805ac358c4a3cc594f6285f04272ff0558aa60cbc90fafdbac30b623ffcc3a6b739218d9fd7a6a6e1d8cb186a5582f2cc30a518ed4dde810
+EBUILD pycups-1.9.73-r3.ebuild 1188 BLAKE2B a26c79891d3b34516f99fe3e8dd223b5a9176e49427833ee2d3e80ee1d6d078e68450327c8a71db84982ac46aa248092e39528fd9c7c8fb52d6e5da2b7e63cd1 SHA512 8d954d8999e898c6825089ed249dfeb4ae13b357676d3ebdd5a3fc279d043ade9f03612640fc2542daaf08bc740f0169f0ec5aad76db81fbd3abf6054f099d64
+MISC metadata.xml 567 BLAKE2B e0f8590318ffd3bf0963973f947ade6be086cf99f5f09b49cbc6ecef7ce397aecffd3cb534339a3a86ae98b88da8c60619a610bb8eac9ec1ccebfdcbc329408b SHA512 63e388902a77c052d0944b84805ec0905598e7f0126eb67813e4c75f3a11a51c2ba8ae46e0f8c3bd64f5c96806e0784c23b2b3e35d3261aba65b267fd28f6c71
diff --git a/dev-python/pycups/metadata.xml b/dev-python/pycups/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>reavertm@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Maciej Mrozowski</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>printing@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Gentoo Printing Project</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="pypi">pycups</remote-id>
+		<remote-id type="github">OpenPrinting/pycups</remote-id>
+		<bugs-to>https://github.com/OpenPrinting/pycups/issues</bugs-to>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/pycups/pycups-1.9.73-r3.ebuild b/dev-python/pycups/pycups-1.9.73-r3.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..9} )
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Python bindings for the CUPS API"
+HOMEPAGE="http://cyberelk.net/tim/data/pycups/"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.bz2"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 ~sh sparc x86"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE="doc examples"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	net-print/cups
+"
+DEPEND="
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	${RDEPEND}
+"
+
+# epydoc kinda sucks and supports python2 only (it's dead too),
+# and since we're dealing with a binary module we need exact version
+# match. therefore, docbuilding *requires* any python2 being enabled.
+
+python_compile() {
+	python_is_python3 || local -x CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fno-strict-aliasing"
+	distutils-r1_python_compile
+}
+
+python_compile_all() {
+	if use doc; then
+		# we can't use Makefile since it relies on hardcoded paths
+		epydoc -o html --html cups || die "doc build failed"
+		HTML_DOCS=( html/. )
+	fi
+}
+
+python_install_all() {
+	if use examples; then
+		dodoc -r examples
+		docompress -x /usr/share/doc/${PF}/examples
+	fi
+	distutils-r1_python_install_all
+}