diff --git a/srcpkgs/newsboat/patches/drop-checkdepends-on-bc.patch b/srcpkgs/newsboat/patches/drop-checkdepends-on-bc.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..54a1a8ed4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/newsboat/patches/drop-checkdepends-on-bc.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+--- test/configparser.cpp
++++ test/configparser.cpp
+@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ TEST_CASE("evaluate_backticks replaces command in backticks with its output",
+ 				== "hello world");
+ 		REQUIRE(configparser::evaluate_backticks("xxx`echo yyy`zzz")
+ 				== "xxxyyyzzz");
+-		REQUIRE(configparser::evaluate_backticks("`echo 3 \\* 4 | bc`") == "12");
++		REQUIRE(configparser::evaluate_backticks("`seq 10 | tail -1`") == "10");
+ 	}
+ 
+ 	SECTION("backticks can be escaped with backslash") {
+
diff --git a/srcpkgs/newsboat/template b/srcpkgs/newsboat/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d35bc2bfa2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/newsboat/template
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# Template file for 'newsboat'
+pkgname=newsboat
+version=r2.10.1
+revision=1
+build_style=configure
+configure_script="./config.sh"
+make_install_args="prefix=/usr"
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config perl asciidoc"
+checkdepends="ncurses-base"
+makedepends="stfl-devel json-c-devel libxml2-devel libcurl-devel sqlite-devel libressl-devel"
+make_build_target="all doc"
+short_desc="Newsboat is a fork of Newsbeuter the Mutt of RSS feed readers"
+maintainer="maxice8 <thinkabit.ukim@gmail.com>"
+license="MIT"
+homepage="http://www.newsboat.org"
+distfiles="https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=82d5e3e2a6dab845aac0bf72580f46c2756375d49214905a627284e5bc32e327
+
+if [ "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
+	# This is not triggered in native compilation
+	CXXFLAGS=" -Wno-error=sign-compare"
+fi
+
+do_check() {
+	rm -f test/rss.cpp
+
+	make test
+	(cd test && TERM=$TERM TMPDIR=/dev/shm ./test)
+}
+
+post_install() {
+	vlicense LICENSE
+	vsconf doc/example-bookmark-plugin.sh bookmark-plugin.sh
+	mv "${DESTDIR}/usr/share/doc/$pkgname/examples/config" "${DESTDIR}/usr/share/examples/${pkgname}"
+
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/newsboat/update b/srcpkgs/newsboat/update
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f7eee0a6c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/newsboat/update
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+pattern='r[\d.]+\d+'