diff --git a/dev-java/sun-jai-imageio/ChangeLog b/dev-java/sun-jai-imageio/ChangeLog
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+# ChangeLog for dev-java/sun-jai-imageio
+# Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
+# $Header: $
+
+  20 Apr 2009; Mario Fetka <mario.fetka@gmail.com> +metadata.xml:
+  initial checkin based on bug 252249
+
diff --git a/dev-java/sun-jai-imageio/Manifest b/dev-java/sun-jai-imageio/Manifest
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 EBUILD sun-jai-imageio-1.1.ebuild 1524 RMD160 18e1324690bfdb4f4e287b8bb05bcf1dee432d20 SHA1 2b6f75a397e2faec8aee0b4b9f2719de5326d8ae SHA256 5150083bf7b0856675b469377ee67ba1ecde0c1de165b9e45149c0329430f59f
+MISC ChangeLog 230 RMD160 17959f35df83ecbe4fdfb705708d32fb1ec0cd33 SHA1 a122c6bfd589b5fd6e9609185e4233b15e5fab8a SHA256 384a613c616c8443c509fd66eee0fa7221f47fc984b4f9036aed224e2fbb4152
+MISC metadata.xml 1238 RMD160 c82938e77f387291d6a1c3bf9b0d802f2878dd12 SHA1 b5738f14922c69e78cfb867acdc65eeea25977bf SHA256 2c13f98be5fa8bdaf21ac86bcd00bbeb8944df5615de0cfce35ae4c00ef4b4d5
diff --git a/dev-java/sun-jai-imageio/metadata.xml b/dev-java/sun-jai-imageio/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<!-- 
+$Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/skel.metadata.xml,v 1.18 2008/07/28 19:27:05 cardoe Exp $
+
+This is the example metadata file.
+The root element of this file is <pkgmetadata>. Within this element a 
+number of subelements are allowed: herd, maintainer, and 
+longdescription. herd is a required subelement.
+
+For a full description look at:
+http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=4
+
+
+Before committing, please remove the comments from this file. They are 
+not relevant for general metadata.xml files.
+-->
+<pkgmetadata>
+<herd>no-herd</herd>
+<maintainer>
+  <email>@gentoo.org</email>
+<!--  <description>Description of the maintainership</description> -->
+</maintainer>
+<!-- <longdescription>Long description of the package</longdescription> -->
+<!--
+<use>
+  <flag name='flag'>Description of how USE='flag' affects this package</flag>
+  <flag name='userland_GNU'>Description of how USERLAND='GNU' affects this
+	  package</flag>
+  <flag name='aspell'>Uses <pkg>app-text/aspell</pkg> for spell checking.
+	  Requires an installed dictionary from <cat>app-dicts</cat></flag>
+</use>
+-->
+</pkgmetadata>