diff --git a/dev-python/berkeleydb/Manifest b/dev-python/berkeleydb/Manifest
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..89f8b6d8f960
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/berkeleydb/Manifest
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+DIST berkeleydb-18.1.15.tar.gz 188446 BLAKE2B e018ad0afb557b866121a267e5b64d627c5c3752f5929652f2e291f9ff67c8e5bb7319fbade04ec0ecfac3aefe58c3497745f5c9b467aa2dd30c01297679ac53 SHA512 60d987851febb158888d2a5fe35bc9169e4855fcfc40b836f0d089db9cc6a0da2c7032b348ac486a7d873eae6999d6d8ce3833461d50fe8afbcf498d37b5afa2
diff --git a/dev-python/berkeleydb/berkeleydb-18.1.15.ebuild b/dev-python/berkeleydb/berkeleydb-18.1.15.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c300836c33d8
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+++ b/dev-python/berkeleydb/berkeleydb-18.1.15.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+# Copyright 2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_EXT=1
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..14} )
+
+inherit db-use distutils-r1 pypi
+
+DESCRIPTION="Python bindings for Oracle Berkeley DB"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm
+	https://pypi.org/project/berkeleydb/
+"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE="test"
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	<sys-libs/db-6.0:=
+	|| (
+		sys-libs/db:5.3
+		sys-libs/db:4.8
+	)
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	test? (
+		dev-python/packaging[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/test[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+python_prepare_all() {
+	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
+
+	# This list should be kept in sync with setup.py.
+	if [[ -z ${DB_VER} ]]; then
+		for DB_VER in 5.3 4.8; do
+			has_version "sys-libs/db:${DB_VER}" && break
+		done
+	fi
+
+	# Force version.
+	sed -e "s/db_ver = None/db_ver = (${DB_VER%.*}, ${DB_VER#*.})/" \
+		-e "s/dblib = 'db'/dblib = '$(db_libname ${DB_VER})'/" \
+		-i setup3.py || die
+
+	# Fix the build
+	mv setup3.py setup.py || die
+	sed -e 's|setuptools.build_meta:__legacy__|setuptools.build_meta|' -i pyproject.toml || die
+
+	# no build dir
+	sed -e "/os.chdir('build')/d" -i test.py || die
+
+	# Set it ourselves in the test phase
+	sed -e "/os.environ\['BERKELEYDB_SO_PATH'\]/d" -i test.py || die
+}
+
+python_configure_all() {
+	DISTUTILS_ARGS=(
+		--berkeley-db="${EPREFIX}/usr"
+		--berkeley-db-incdir="$(db_includedir ${DB_VER})"
+		--berkeley-db-libdir="${EPREFIX}/usr/$(get_libdir)"
+	)
+}
+
+python_test() {
+	local -x BERKELEYDB_SO_PATH="${BUILD_DIR}"
+	"${EPYTHON}" test.py -vv || die "Testing failed with ${EPYTHON}"
+}
diff --git a/dev-python/berkeleydb/metadata.xml b/dev-python/berkeleydb/metadata.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b6144077127a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/berkeleydb/metadata.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<doc>https://docs.jcea.es/berkeleydb/latest/</doc>
+		<remote-id type="pypi">berkeleydb</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/profiles/package.deprecated b/profiles/package.deprecated
index a43f1664a169..b9e7b549d56e 100644
--- a/profiles/package.deprecated
+++ b/profiles/package.deprecated
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
 
 #--- END OF EXAMPLES ---
 
+# Alfred Wingate <parona@protonmail.com> (2025-10-18)
+# Only exists temporarily to facilitate upgrades for exaile.
+# Bug 892854
+dev-python/berkeleydb
+
 # Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> (2025-10-01)
 # dev-python/passlib is unmaintained upstream (last release in 2020),
 # and we keep having to patch breakage out.  Packages really need