diff --git a/dev-tex/detex/detex-2.8-r1.ebuild b/dev-tex/detex/detex-2.8-r1.ebuild
index 7a639f85f72..b2bffa45599 100644
--- a/dev-tex/detex/detex-2.8-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-tex/detex/detex-2.8-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=0
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ EAPI=0
 inherit eutils toolchain-funcs
 
 DESCRIPTION="A filter program that removes the LaTeX (or TeX) control sequences"
-HOMEPAGE="http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/trinkle/detex/"
-SRC_URI="http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/trinkle/detex/${P}.tar"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/trinkle/detex/"
+SRC_URI="https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/trinkle/detex/${P}.tar"
 
 LICENSE="BSD"
 SLOT="0"
diff --git a/dev-tex/detex/detex-2.8-r2.ebuild b/dev-tex/detex/detex-2.8-r2.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1313b390288
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-tex/detex/detex-2.8-r2.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit toolchain-funcs
+
+DESCRIPTION="A filter program that removes the LaTeX (or TeX) control sequences"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/trinkle/detex/"
+SRC_URI="https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/trinkle/detex/${P}.tar"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-fbsd ~x86-fbsd ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x86-macos ~sparc-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
+
+DEPEND="sys-devel/flex"
+
+PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}/${P}-ldflags.patch" )
+
+src_prepare() {
+	tc-export CC
+	default
+	sed -i \
+		-e "s:CFLAGS	= -O \${DEFS}:CFLAGS	= ${CFLAGS} \${DEFS}:" \
+		-e 's:LEX	= lex:#LEX	= lex:' \
+		-e 's:#LEX	= flex:LEX	= flex:' \
+		-e 's:#DEFS	+= ${DEFS} -DNO_MALLOC_DECL:DEFS += -DNO_MALLOC_DECL:' \
+		-e 's:LEXLIB	= -ll:LEXLIB	= -lfl:' \
+		Makefile || die "sed failed"
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	dobin detex
+	dodoc README
+	doman detex.1l
+}