diff --git a/net-libs/libcurl-debian/libcurl-debian-4.ebuild b/net-libs/libcurl-debian/libcurl-debian-4.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=6
+
+inherit multilib multilib-minimal
+
+DESCRIPTION="libcurl-{gnutls,nss}.so.${SLOT} symlinks for compatibility with Debian"
+HOMEPAGE="https://curl.haxx.se/"
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="4"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+RDEPEND=">=net-misc/curl-7.16.0[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}"
+
+multilib_src_install() {
+	local backend
+
+	for backend in gnutls nss; do
+		dosym ../libcurl.so.${SLOT} /usr/$(get_libdir)/debiancompat/libcurl-${backend}.so.${SLOT}
+	done
+}
diff --git a/net-libs/libcurl-debian/metadata.xml b/net-libs/libcurl-debian/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>chewi@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>James Le Cuirot</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription>
+	  Unlike Gentoo, Debian allows multiple copies of libcurl built
+	  against different backends to be installed simultaneously. For
+	  reasons best known to themselves, some developers release
+	  binaries linked against libcurl-gnutls.so instead of libcurl.so,
+	  the latter being the OpenSSL variant. Although it is less than
+	  ideal, real world usage has shown that symlinking from one to
+	  the other doesn't cause any issues so this package provides such
+	  a symlink to satisfy prebuilt binaries. Usage of libcurl-nss.so
+	  seems less common but a symlink for that has also been included
+	  for completeness.
+	</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>