diff --git a/dev-ros/topic_tools/Manifest b/dev-ros/topic_tools/Manifest
index 8da7b77924309..62abfd9ef4f76 100644
--- a/dev-ros/topic_tools/Manifest
+++ b/dev-ros/topic_tools/Manifest
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ DIST ros_comm-1.12.2.tar.gz 956358 SHA256 693f5ed4fbaf537f104f7d279e267af5046b01
 DIST ros_comm-1.12.4.tar.gz 966122 SHA256 b166141f7243d81abf1692a08d7f28a061cb9b74692b93eb0282ade45ed02717 SHA512 0f8f8b4c21e5cba1a2d86f829839242eb5db53eb41631d2a4a1ce6a95231f5c3e06bc0c6a375821228febd55af13ee7e9dc13165b350f2ba81b631cc25043f42 WHIRLPOOL 1a6f4570b1d96a94f9d01edabe6a1cc00ce7b83e6bce662e1ff13774c872e3d2755b544fa612f5347d065c2d199eb8ff818001b3c507de60dbd4099f430ed747
 DIST ros_comm-1.12.5.tar.gz 966478 SHA256 a53039f5106133b67689ba579e29c9045e3b1468713019cf72b848ce979b6964 SHA512 0d97eac0b0cf200a1e217597176d55c82249e2e7b9f3c4706dce84068a65c6642e099fb16c69d33b62d6c780d2c2775b7330fb497bc936f9d4bc73a2b5ba12ca WHIRLPOOL 3f1c8239ef146a0915b8f2c183c68eda094f480fa099846c6b152325bd1e8574114ecbb4a5bcd609bf1323f29767dc8110e175c79b07183cc8ff9e51f9a62b19
 DIST ros_comm-1.12.6.tar.gz 967763 SHA256 8585d952b1168d2011949b38c68160180b1f3ee1648a506bcb5989f9807335ca SHA512 1987c6362ae0c7c019a226223c73a7aefdc14a3fc66469ab6cdf9c41e9efdf4d7b7d4932af2a52f2082d716342a307b2e415c0ab45f77dfd9a7c1e4274deab5c WHIRLPOOL a719bb81da6b1b7e2f253d3bf6c8db8339333b4fa7f89a18d0fa734e9ff1700e1dac7b537f154015b4ada7455a6673c1715a89e2fdd3da9bbbb70081fc2943cd
+DIST ros_comm-1.12.7.tar.gz 974568 SHA256 4c141270c9263ba1ceb0d510f9d17bfe229530a277bfe10762e88d25f46efd38 SHA512 7cfc5bf231e8e388102f192d46bd902a2b92d4620938379b362efd250c48f317f5ba6e0aee7398c841392f56c2b79f933ad5ec60eb69492add90fa2ca86a3a8f WHIRLPOOL 7537aa5b781b3426cbaa82bdb07b117045efc3f748af7413e6b52ee63f3b401e403966afb1ea305674a5613f6a191f0afa098ad16e63267ad2ec8e3117996eb0
diff --git a/dev-ros/topic_tools/topic_tools-1.12.7.ebuild b/dev-ros/topic_tools/topic_tools-1.12.7.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..232d4bad6d9f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-ros/topic_tools/topic_tools-1.12.7.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=5
+
+ROS_REPO_URI="https://github.com/ros/ros_comm"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm"
+CATKIN_HAS_MESSAGES=yes
+ROS_SUBDIR=tools/${PN}
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
+CATKIN_MESSAGES_TRANSITIVE_DEPS="dev-ros/std_msgs"
+
+inherit ros-catkin
+
+DESCRIPTION="Tools for directing, throttling and selecting ROS topics"
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE=""
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-ros/cpp_common
+	dev-ros/rosconsole
+	dev-ros/roscpp
+	dev-ros/rostime
+	dev-ros/xmlrpcpp
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	test? (
+		dev-ros/rostest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-ros/rosunit[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-cpp/gtest
+		dev-python/nose[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)"