diff --git a/dev-util/gdbus-codegen/Manifest b/dev-util/gdbus-codegen/Manifest
index a887f1f61da54..d5dfeed2f7e97 100644
--- a/dev-util/gdbus-codegen/Manifest
+++ b/dev-util/gdbus-codegen/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST glib-2.44.1.tar.xz 7132940 SHA256 8811deacaf8a503d0a9b701777ea079ca6a4277be10e3d730d2112735d5eca07 SHA512 c24d307408e061b2657f7e7d1b8245c55605ebda26ee2dcc3497ee9d90bfc137d8e5f42f0cd5acf4b49ea28c424fa901e81f75ecf81833f6d0fe51d5e36e5888 WHIRLPOOL 6a1eef94b3ffed4d5cb551f4def6859ddff8ea0aac50048e706863f2bd4957c40b7034946852fa4604a109eb121c55b94ec51b3708a325ace5692f61fd1babb7
 DIST glib-2.46.2.tar.xz 7344636 SHA256 5031722e37036719c1a09163cc6cf7c326e4c4f1f1e074b433c156862bd733db SHA512 8b5298712710d77b4a47367071f782d2bb3042b149ec8fde8c065f80bf3c5375c94318d19665c0092572e4895e590231a47324d25f371310f02b43feb3009588 WHIRLPOOL 700b69360110351544780ace4dcb14f29505f63d8840882532a4b7c017860b6da86e09cbabca691b7b24cb08b8722e772555de044b8b21e4b0952c8a8e4e6ecb
+DIST glib-2.48.0.tar.xz 7487800 SHA256 744be6931ca914c68af98dc38ff6b0cf8381d65e335060faddfbf04c17147c34 SHA512 684544bc594d9f6c905495d895daed40b074bcf5fa835aefb9a1034afc9564b2bd464e68d4c378c210e96918ef5d5202350da53a7104794420e990049ddbebf5 WHIRLPOOL 39ddd7fd17ecc2100f2156165210d2cf68ae13724b252e42705bc89d0c4145cddca3a30f9e3bf9b6a2971cbffe0e108d2acae1200c8fe6d9db91b4b3953c4950
diff --git a/dev-util/gdbus-codegen/gdbus-codegen-2.48.0.ebuild b/dev-util/gdbus-codegen/gdbus-codegen-2.48.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..1eb55336256ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-util/gdbus-codegen/gdbus-codegen-2.48.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI="5"
+GNOME_ORG_MODULE="glib"
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_4,3_5} )
+PYTHON_REQ_USE="xml"
+
+inherit eutils gnome.org distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="GDBus code and documentation generator"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.gtk.org/"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-2+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-fbsd ~sparc-fbsd ~x86-fbsd ~amd64-linux ~arm-linux ~x86-linux ~x64-macos ~x86-macos"
+IUSE=""
+
+RDEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+
+# To prevent circular dependencies with glib[test]
+PDEPEND=">=dev-libs/glib-${PV}:2"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/glib-${PV}/gio/gdbus-2.0/codegen"
+
+python_prepare_all() {
+	PATCHES=(
+		"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-2.40.0-sitedir.patch"
+	)
+	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
+
+	sed -e 's:#!@PYTHON@:#!/usr/bin/env python:' gdbus-codegen.in > gdbus-codegen || die
+	cp "${FILESDIR}/setup.py-2.32.4" setup.py || die "cp failed"
+	sed -e "s/@PV@/${PV}/" -i setup.py || die "sed setup.py failed"
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	einfo "Skipping tests. This package is tested by dev-libs/glib"
+	einfo "when merged with FEATURES=test"
+}
+
+python_install_all() {
+	distutils-r1_python_install_all # no-op, but prevents QA warning
+	doman "${WORKDIR}/glib-${PV}/docs/reference/gio/gdbus-codegen.1"
+}