diff --git a/dev-util/debhelper/Manifest b/dev-util/debhelper/Manifest
index 9654381dcf705..6f656668811c6 100644
--- a/dev-util/debhelper/Manifest
+++ b/dev-util/debhelper/Manifest
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
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 DIST debhelper_9.20160814.tar.xz 344328 SHA256 2834a7c1dbeafd9402ea68948c815dab19d903503c45fd70e676269fccd359c0 SHA512 63072ba35ec8c62ee4c4d44833712925264c808a91f1522ef6a73377f2da3d11b285a21ad39158fd44693c801916189261186c8c7b28096719328a81a0a65f62 WHIRLPOOL 334f0aa8075896ec13a061b9841adb5f2b7c5fa6996b507785f50389c86c48e3c89a84ff1049ae7d7cbe4876b649010f892f54f1074ecafd76061bf0588e65d6
diff --git a/dev-util/debhelper/debhelper-10.5.ebuild b/dev-util/debhelper/debhelper-10.5.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..29abd1f16f1ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-util/debhelper/debhelper-10.5.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+inherit eutils toolchain-funcs
+
+DESCRIPTION="Collection of programs that can be used to automate common tasks in debian/rules"
+HOMEPAGE="http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/debhelper.html"
+SRC_URI="mirror://debian/pool/main/d/${PN}/${P/-/_}.tar.xz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux"
+IUSE="test"
+DH_LINGUAS=( de es fr )
+IUSE+=" ${DH_LINGUAS[@]/#/linguas_}"
+
+NLS_DEPEND=$(
+	printf "linguas_%s? ( >=app-text/po4a-0.24 )\n" ${DH_LINGUAS[@]}
+)
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-lang/perl-5.10:=
+	>=app-arch/dpkg-1.17
+	dev-perl/TimeDate
+	virtual/perl-Getopt-Long
+"
+DEPEND="
+	${RDEPEND}
+	${NLS_DEPEND}
+	test? (
+		dev-perl/Test-Pod
+		sys-apps/fakeroot
+	)
+"
+
+S=${WORKDIR}/${PN}
+
+src_compile() {
+	tc-export CC
+
+	local LANGS="" USE_NLS=no lingua
+	for lingua in ${DH_LINGUAS[@]}; do
+		if use linguas_${lingua}; then
+			LANGS+=" ${lingua}"
+			USE_NLS=yes
+		fi
+	done
+
+	emake USE_NLS="${USE_NLS}" LANGS="${LANGS}" build
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	emake DESTDIR="${D}" PREFIX="${EPREFIX}/usr" install
+	dodoc doc/* debian/changelog
+	docinto examples
+	dodoc examples/*
+	local lingua
+	for manfile in *.1 *.7 ; do
+		for lingua in ${DH_LINGUAS[@]}; do
+			case ${manfile} in
+				*.${lingua}.?)
+					use linguas_${lingua} \
+						&& cp ${manfile} "${T}"/${manfile/.${lingua}/} \
+						&& doman -i18n=${lingua} "${T}"/${manfile/.${lingua}/}
+					;;
+				*)
+					doman ${manfile}
+					;;
+			esac
+		done
+	done
+}