diff --git a/sys-fs/ddrescue/Manifest b/sys-fs/ddrescue/Manifest
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+++ b/sys-fs/ddrescue/Manifest
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+DIST ddrescue-1.28.tar.lz 93823 BLAKE2B 8c212f0d495e0df8e0398b97730c812ea9ccb77bd42e730198222e9918e3652fc52d932449b1e0dc9bdd453a123e2450c962e33e98d9845ce81b9a934a5bbdaa SHA512 ad3df2361b3b0228e2875792e0f6b301dc4d9cefd3f4fcdbce180a53c32924ee026bd27397b8efc94f40ee10f5f9d453fa72bd19203b6cb90208881e287e2c46
diff --git a/sys-fs/ddrescue/ddrescue-1.28.ebuild b/sys-fs/ddrescue/ddrescue-1.28.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit toolchain-funcs flag-o-matic unpacker
+
+DESCRIPTION="Copy data from one file or block device to another with read-error recovery"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html"
+SRC_URI="mirror://gnu/${PN}/${P}.tar.lz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux"
+IUSE="static"
+
+BDEPEND="$(unpacker_src_uri_depends)"
+
+src_configure() {
+	use static && append-ldflags -static
+
+	# not a normal configure script
+	econf \
+		--prefix="${EPREFIX}"/usr \
+		CXX="$(tc-getCXX)" \
+		CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS}" \
+		CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS}" \
+		LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}"
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	./testsuite/check.sh "${S}"/testsuite || die
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install install-man
+	einstalldocs
+}