diff --git a/sci-physics/hepstats/Manifest b/sci-physics/hepstats/Manifest
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+DIST hepstats-0.8.1.tar.gz 16653688 BLAKE2B ae7eef481b0e0c2caf6b928b2bdd2c71ec78c6075c13d784ef0cb018ebaefea8f9b3fe42f38aad1453c237d479a5a1184981982d7216550c104a80ac3fd95f68 SHA512 70f922ad0d5bd7f9ef7fc8dff66714ef89c323c2b3176bd979a93ad84c1f9861272a1744467e10b6ed3e32307f732e50dadb13f221ffbc3c63cfc01436a6b159
diff --git a/sci-physics/hepstats/hepstats-0.8.1.ebuild b/sci-physics/hepstats/hepstats-0.8.1.ebuild
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+EAPI=8
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..13} )
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+inherit distutils-r1 pypi
+
+DESCRIPTION="Statistics tools and utilities."
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://scikit-hep.org/hepstats/
+	https://github.com/scikit-hep/hepstats
+"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+RESTRICT="test" # needs zfit
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-python/asdf[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/numpy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/pandas[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/scipy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/tqdm[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/uhi[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
diff --git a/sci-physics/hepstats/metadata.xml b/sci-physics/hepstats/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>sci@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Gentoo Science Project</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>alexander@neuwirth-informatik.de</email>
+		<name>Alexander Puck Neuwirth</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription lang="en">
+		hepstats is a library for statistical inference aiming to cover the needs High Energy Physics. It is part of the Scikit-HEP project.
+	</longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="pypi">hepstats</remote-id>
+		<remote-id type="github">scikit-hep/hepstats</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>