diff --git a/dev-python/poetry-core/Manifest b/dev-python/poetry-core/Manifest
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+DIST poetry-core-1.0.0_alpha9.tar.gz 326507 BLAKE2B dcc6f8b0e336600b3402f2757e62a9735b8fa7663bd79249c881c91f4a8dd2c37cbaf88fd0d5977173c2bbabf143bfd6cbb01322065241825df905385236542b SHA512 8990b7f59c005cba11e38854110538e5c574f4418b712c46b2a24c4843a308ba8518cb7df9acd12723924d8869b4f68bff7233349feb93e5f78a4e1ac4ecef3f
+EBUILD poetry-core-1.0.0_alpha9.ebuild 866 BLAKE2B 9d5540cec30c6afe1eadea25d7bc0428a7f2a7437aa7ce39ec94d838466b0740e5b6663eedfd929b9a9295379da4100f0b98d87cf38952d94d7453098432418a SHA512 e90785b76471628afa13b83167088e8fa96f6664ba13673b0866d79f29a66167f722243326d421eb5f6a75ad0d199260a67e6ebc92b9b7827a7971f44d00299f
+MISC metadata.xml 462 BLAKE2B 40a71c58182da6aa0a566cbbc33508a369d2850aa6ca3109ed230dea440d6665c32533d24236fc5f49c8553a5bea07f185e07b32a3153c3077fdb7780cf15fc1 SHA512 e8c290e83c38c8c417eb15884a37513dcf7ea1df12013af599c230a9375748c03dbd9bd3fdda3418c24db07bbdae4c34304b2c6854a1066ab3faa7011cf475ff
diff --git a/dev-python/poetry-core/metadata.xml b/dev-python/poetry-core/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>b@edevau.net</email>
+    <name>Andreas Billmeier</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="pypi">poetry-core</remote-id>
+    <maintainer status="unknown">
+      <email>sebastien@eustace.io</email>
+      <name>Sébastien Eustace</name>
+    </maintainer>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/poetry-core/poetry-core-1.0.0_alpha9.ebuild b/dev-python/poetry-core/poetry-core-1.0.0_alpha9.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI="7"
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{6..8} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Core utilities for Poetry"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/python-poetry/core https://pypi.org/project/poetry-core/"
+MY_PV=${PV/_alpha/a}
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${P:0:1}/${PN}/${PN}-${MY_PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${MY_PV}"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
+IUSE="test"
+
+RDEPEND=">=dev-python/attrs-18.1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/click-6.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/regex[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+
+DEPEND="${REDEPEND}
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? (
+		dev-python/nose[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)"
+
+python_test() {
+	nosetests --verbose || die
+	py.test -v -v || die
+}