diff --git a/dev-java/protobuf-java/protobuf-java-9999.ebuild b/dev-java/protobuf-java/protobuf-java-9999.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2008-2019 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis and others
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI="6"
+JAVA_PKG_IUSE="doc source"
+
+inherit java-pkg-2 java-pkg-simple
+
+if [[ "${PV}" == "9999" ]]; then
+	inherit git-r3
+
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf"
+	EGIT_SUBMODULES=()
+fi
+
+DESCRIPTION="Google's Protocol Buffers - Java bindings"
+HOMEPAGE="https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/ https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf"
+if [[ "${PV}" == "9999" ]]; then
+	SRC_URI=""
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> protobuf-${PV}.tar.gz"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0/18"
+KEYWORDS=""
+IUSE=""
+
+DEPEND="~dev-libs/protobuf-${PV}
+	>=virtual/jdk-1.7"
+RDEPEND=">=virtual/jre-1.7
+	!<dev-libs/protobuf-3[java(-)]"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/protobuf-${PV}/java"
+
+if [[ "${PV}" == "9999" ]]; then
+	EGIT_CHECKOUT_DIR="${WORKDIR}/protobuf-${PV}"
+fi
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	java-pkg-2_src_prepare
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	"${EPREFIX}/usr/bin/protoc" --java_out=core/src/main/java -I../src ../src/google/protobuf/descriptor.proto || die
+	JAVA_SRC_DIR="core/src/main/java" JAVA_JAR_FILENAME="protobuf.jar" java-pkg-simple_src_compile
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	JAVA_SRC_DIR="core/src/main/java" JAVA_JAR_FILENAME="protobuf.jar" java-pkg-simple_src_install
+}