diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index bcf3a4aea3..271880c4bc 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1975,3 +1975,4 @@ libOpenImageIO_Util.so.1.5 openimageio-1.5.13_1
 libOpenImageIO.so.1.5 openimageio-1.5.13_1
 libOpenColorIO.so.1 opencolorio-1.0.8_1
 libyaml-cpp.so.0.5 yaml-cpp-0.5.2_1
+libpaper.so.1 libpaper-1.1.24_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libpaper-devel b/srcpkgs/libpaper-devel
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..c6d8234014
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libpaper-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libpaper
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libpaper/template b/srcpkgs/libpaper/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..19f5bfc098
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libpaper/template
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+# Template file for 'libpaper'
+pkgname=libpaper
+version=1.1.24+nmu2
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+conf_files="/etc/papersize"
+configure_args="--sbindir=/usr/bin"
+short_desc="Library for handling paper characteristics"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+license="GPL-2"
+homepage="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libpaper"
+distfiles="${DEBIAN_SITE}/main/libp/${pkgname}/${pkgname}_${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=c5bdd6d9dff179699160675dbb61651d9b3158f6da27558fdaba00e7c427ba96
+
+post_install() {
+	# add systemwide default papersize read by many office applications
+	vmkdir etc
+	echo '# Simply write the paper name. See papersize(5) for possible values' > ${DESTDIR}/etc/papersize
+
+	# add libpaper.d directory other packages can use to store files
+	vmkdir etc/libpaper.d
+	touch ${DESTDIR}/etc/libpaper.d/.empty
+
+	# add localisation
+	cd debian/po
+	for i in $(ls *.po); do
+		install -dm755 ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/locale/${i%.po}/LC_MESSAGES/;
+		msgfmt $i -o ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/locale/${i%.po}/LC_MESSAGES/${pkgname}.mo;
+	done
+}
+
+libpaper-devel_package() {
+	depends="${sourcepkg}-${version}_${revision}"
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/*.a
+		vmove usr/lib/*.so
+		vmove usr/share/man/man3
+	}
+}