diff --git a/app-laptop/i8kutils/Manifest b/app-laptop/i8kutils/Manifest
index cdd104cd9451c..cda3ca0ce3cb3 100644
--- a/app-laptop/i8kutils/Manifest
+++ b/app-laptop/i8kutils/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST i8kutils_1.33.tar.gz 50378 SHA256 ebdd39a2be8b5742bd7b24a5dbcbef36ab3b9980330ad07eea471e68b800ecd7 SHA512 a7b9277b8c9bc2642a65122dda31cfa7cc0c4fa780ba980364c0a4e0e4599502c6557871464ff256c5911370d98944826d0e29d4d3621605d5e8c1c8a23e5578 WHIRLPOOL 162cec2b48c1573a8b49d7966db312357754bc4445a9247d6fd0ca43bfabf1ccbe155bdc19c66fcc654f1dd6ff7499e82829e62a726f602a846b01b4a0189eb2
+DIST i8kutils_1.42.tar.xz 37544 SHA256 8764ee6d78e646965fbf1ba653cbfa6e05627eb9922389c132866431d7c3d802 SHA512 148e8788c50cbaa22f1dd3b72867839f5bc2d91cda70aee74f7c9a3d8542386a44652c5eb8dd9eba0e30400fc6bb72855d3cc7f2dc4284c2529b9cba2eac485b WHIRLPOOL da39e9312bf9c224dd2f6272e33361e6230421703170a8ba76965cc1b6994eab69423a824b505f6cead9c45b7288019bc0f663b925e8278b0ddb2b73061f5b36
diff --git a/app-laptop/i8kutils/i8kutils-1.42.ebuild b/app-laptop/i8kutils/i8kutils-1.42.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..ae16f20aee498
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-laptop/i8kutils/i8kutils-1.42.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=5
+
+inherit systemd toolchain-funcs
+
+DESCRIPTION="Dell Inspiron and Latitude utilities"
+HOMEPAGE="https://launchpad.net/i8kutils"
+SRC_URI="https://launchpad.net/i8kutils/trunk/${PV}/+download/${P/-/_}.tar.xz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="examples tk"
+
+DEPEND="tk? ( dev-lang/tk:0 )"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
+	sys-power/acpi"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}"
+
+DOCS=( README.i8kutils )
+
+src_prepare() {
+	sed \
+		-e '/^CC/d' \
+		-e '/^CFLAGS/d' \
+		-e 's: -g : $(LDFLAGS) :g' \
+		-i Makefile || die
+
+	tc-export CC
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	dobin i8kctl i8kfan
+	doman i8kctl.1
+
+	use examples && dodoc -r examples
+
+	newinitd "${FILESDIR}"/i8k.init-r1 i8k
+
+	if use tk; then
+		dobin i8kmon
+		doman i8kmon.1
+		dodoc i8kmon.conf
+		systemd_dounit "${FILESDIR}"/i8kmon.service
+	else
+		cat >> "${ED}"/etc/conf.d/i8k <<- EOF
+		# i8kmon disabled because the package was installed without USE=tk
+		NOMON=1
+		EOF
+	fi
+
+}
diff --git a/app-laptop/i8kutils/metadata.xml b/app-laptop/i8kutils/metadata.xml
index 59e2b8f78cb5a..5523fac3522c3 100644
--- a/app-laptop/i8kutils/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-laptop/i8kutils/metadata.xml
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
+	<herd>proxy-maintainers</herd>
 	<maintainer>
-		<email>maintainer-needed@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Default assignee for orphaned packages</name>
+		<email>adi@adirat.com</email>
+		<name>Ioan-Adrian Ratiu</name>
+		<description>Proxied maintainer. Assign bugs to him.</description>
 	</maintainer>
 </pkgmetadata>