diff --git a/dev-crystal/crystal-db/Manifest b/dev-crystal/crystal-db/Manifest
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+DIST crystal-db-0.11.0.tar.gz 37260 BLAKE2B 8fee7dd05af9585643a7fd2513ffeed8e8fd8c50cab0f467eebcbf7bbf48b94ed64ca4c524475bfc475da25e6ecf66ff3a88be1f417fdc302013fe78028c547a SHA512 a8df8d55402836d30d918a2717c145671f67ef5381895f56914aa3623135a9de3ce2d125085b16ff59460487116bc45f2e09b7001a937b3208430618049543d1
diff --git a/dev-crystal/crystal-db/crystal-db-0.11.0.ebuild b/dev-crystal/crystal-db/crystal-db-0.11.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit shards
+
+DESCRIPTION="Common DB API for Crystal"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal-db"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/crystal-lang/${PN}/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+DOCS=( {CHANGELOG,README}.md )
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	# one test fails on v0.11.0
+	rm spec/serializable_spec.cr || die
+}
diff --git a/dev-crystal/crystal-db/metadata.xml b/dev-crystal/crystal-db/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>cyber+gentoo@sysrq.in</email>
+		<name>Anna</name>
+	</maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>