diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 31ac302121b..35ba07dbe0c 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1699,3 +1699,4 @@ libwld.so.0 wld-git-20140809_1
 libswc.so.0 swc-git-20140809_1
 libfcgi.so.0 fcgi-2.4.0_2
 libdshconfig.so.1 libdshconfig-0.20.13_1
+libpar2.so.1 libpar2-0.4_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libpar2-devel b/srcpkgs/libpar2-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..41dfc907561
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libpar2-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libpar2
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libpar2/template b/srcpkgs/libpar2/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1b276bb9802
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libpar2/template
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# Template file for 'libpar2'
+pkgname=libpar2
+version=0.4
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+maintainer="Dominik Honnef <dominik@honnef.co>"
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
+makedepends="libsigc++-devel"
+license="GPL-2"
+homepage="https://launchpad.net/libpar2"
+short_desc="Allows for the generation, modification, verification, and repair of PAR and PAR2 recovery sets"
+distfiles="https://launchpad.net/${pkgname}/trunk/${version}/+download/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=316d6f0eb31eb896f5546171c2e86801aeffe5ae5e2decffc17f0018346796d4
+
+libpar2-devel_package() {
+	depends="libsigc++-devel ${sourcepkg}-${version}_${revision}"
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/libpar2/include/
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.a"
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+	}
+}