diff --git a/net-im/corebird/Manifest b/net-im/corebird/Manifest
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+++ b/net-im/corebird/Manifest
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+DIST corebird-1.7.4.tar.gz 555650 BLAKE2B 1c9ef4d81084a291726876a76b700fe556c0c8c803921c2df215db7e0c268029fcefa95ea6aabd8f4934ecbf70e70ee57988b6c7aefebfd0851d3cb73d16b3fc SHA512 7e88f73ef1fc36379172d30251065e7ee3df54eabfaf954015ed4e739c5ad2b1821b43a07e66bb9363b7daa59b5e981d459a4aef87be8a3dd80a7ed41e37e582
+EBUILD corebird-1.7.4.ebuild 1250 BLAKE2B 8763c0c2538ec70971582c123ac68550b05ee3a30304ffe8b226eb468ea3321bdf90be58c51011a1f5eea891a9dd0fec08e1a36c83a1dd9a1b409ce899912b5c SHA512 3e3fe8ca7d33bbd6b9ad03d96e4b8b99e1b3ffc2a980bed61f7f3749f2ec574554443b00000ca13a79a24fe58062b93a97b67252493e9006480af6e069a7c079
+MISC metadata.xml 706 BLAKE2B b5dd009717a793cb13049225e00d2a2066eae0336fda4df54ec8095abaa147189bcacb8f4f81824f160a4a4bf836bd8758159e8a41808f38957c0c9211166625 SHA512 ec24b71619f5610115704e8ecf590f69f9364ed8842db9628ee089c8c0867356aa5830a24428117370b658badf1cc2b0adf7468f6183fbff8a5f8d91323b95a2
diff --git a/net-im/corebird/corebird-1.7.4.ebuild b/net-im/corebird/corebird-1.7.4.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+VALA_MIN_API_VERSION=0.34
+
+inherit autotools gnome2 vala virtualx
+
+DESCRIPTION="Native GTK+3 Twitter client"
+HOMEPAGE="https://corebird.baedert.org/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/baedert/corebird/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="debug gstreamer spellcheck"
+
+RDEPEND="dev-db/sqlite:3
+	>=dev-libs/glib-2.44:2
+	dev-libs/json-glib
+	gstreamer? ( >=media-libs/gst-plugins-bad-1.6:1.0[X,gtk]
+		media-libs/gst-plugins-base:1.0[X]
+		media-libs/gst-plugins-good:1.0
+		media-plugins/gst-plugins-hls:1.0
+		media-plugins/gst-plugins-libav:1.0
+		media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta:1.0[X]
+		media-plugins/gst-plugins-soup:1.0 )
+	spellcheck? ( >=app-text/gspell-1.0[vala] )
+	>=net-libs/libsoup-2.42.3.1
+	>=x11-libs/gtk+-3.20:3"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	$(vala_depend)
+	>=dev-util/intltool-0.40
+	sys-apps/sed
+	virtual/pkgconfig"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	eautoreconf
+	gnome2_src_prepare
+	vala_src_prepare
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	local myeconfargs=(
+		$(use_enable gstreamer video)
+		--disable-gst-check
+		$(use_enable spellcheck)
+	)
+	gnome2_src_configure "${myeconfargs[@]}"
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	virtx emake check
+}
diff --git a/net-im/corebird/metadata.xml b/net-im/corebird/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="person">
+		<email>markpariente@gmail.com</email>
+		<name>Mark R. Pariente</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>moschlar@metalabs.de</email>
+		<name>Moritz Schlarb</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Proxy Maintainers Project</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<use>
+		<flag name="glade">Install glade catalogs for corebird</flag>
+		<flag name="spellcheck">Support spell checking</flag>
+	</use>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">baedert/corebird</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>