diff --git a/dev-lang/vala/Manifest b/dev-lang/vala/Manifest
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+DIST vala-0.52.0.tar.xz 3570516 BLAKE2B fe412a4d2fa9adb86629820cccef2c75d77489f9a5d3f7c62e51cd273282954a9adb9f7402331220b38bfcd4bb47f69fdafe6248c7ea1d131a3e2d3859ed5b11 SHA512 46d862ba657e5367be7e78751dbedbd7ad65e7d2de7322985d25c60af3fe18ff9e3046fee32c167bd699e5c62b1bf308d2a0a7202d9db82ded9fefd6b25f39a9
diff --git a/dev-lang/vala/vala-0.52.0.ebuild b/dev-lang/vala/vala-0.52.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+inherit gnome2
+
+DESCRIPTION="Compiler for the GObject type system"
+HOMEPAGE="https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-2.1+"
+SLOT="0.50"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~x86-linux"
+IUSE="test valadoc"
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-libs/glib-2.48.0:2
+	>=dev-libs/vala-common-${PV}
+	valadoc? ( >=media-gfx/graphviz-2.16 )
+	!<net-libs/libsoup-2.66.2[vala]
+" # Older libsoup generates a libsoup-2.4.vapi that isn't fine for vala:0.46 anymore
+# We block here, so libsoup[vala] consumers wouldn't have to >= it, which would be bad
+# as the newer is not required with older vala when those are picked instead of 0.46.
+# vala-0.45.91 ships a broken libsoup-2.4.vapi copy too, but that'll be fixed by 0.45.92
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-libs/libxslt
+	sys-devel/flex
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+	virtual/yacc
+	test? (
+		dev-libs/dbus-glib
+		>=dev-libs/glib-2.26:2
+		dev-libs/gobject-introspection )
+"
+
+src_configure() {
+	# weasyprint enables generation of PDF from HTML
+	gnome2_src_configure \
+		--disable-unversioned \
+		$(use_enable valadoc) \
+		VALAC=: \
+		WEASYPRINT=:
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	default
+	find "${D}" -name "*.la" -delete || die
+}
diff --git a/dev-libs/vala-common/Manifest b/dev-libs/vala-common/Manifest
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+DIST vala-0.52.0.tar.xz 3570516 BLAKE2B fe412a4d2fa9adb86629820cccef2c75d77489f9a5d3f7c62e51cd273282954a9adb9f7402331220b38bfcd4bb47f69fdafe6248c7ea1d131a3e2d3859ed5b11 SHA512 46d862ba657e5367be7e78751dbedbd7ad65e7d2de7322985d25c60af3fe18ff9e3046fee32c167bd699e5c62b1bf308d2a0a7202d9db82ded9fefd6b25f39a9
diff --git a/dev-libs/vala-common/vala-common-0.52.0.ebuild b/dev-libs/vala-common/vala-common-0.52.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+GNOME_ORG_MODULE="vala"
+
+inherit gnome.org
+
+DESCRIPTION="Build infrastructure for packages that use Vala"
+HOMEPAGE="https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-2.1+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
+IUSE=""
+
+RDEPEND=""
+DEPEND=""
+BDEPEND=""
+
+src_configure() { :; }
+
+src_compile() { :; }
+
+src_install() {
+	insinto /usr/share/aclocal
+	doins vala.m4 vapigen/vapigen.m4
+	insinto /usr/share/vala
+	doins vapigen/Makefile.vapigen
+}