diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index d24d3cbe695..f8949579224 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -4202,3 +4202,4 @@ libabsl_throw_delegate.so.2206.0.0 abseil-cpp-20220623.1_1
 libabsl_time_zone.so.2206.0.0 abseil-cpp-20220623.1_1
 libabsl_spinlock_wait.so.2206.0.0 abseil-cpp-20220623.1_1
 libairspyhf.so.0 libairspyhf-1.6.8_1
+libtraceevent.so.1 libtraceevent-1.6.2_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libtraceevent-devel b/srcpkgs/libtraceevent-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..9ca91c55529
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libtraceevent-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libtraceevent
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libtraceevent/template b/srcpkgs/libtraceevent/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..62446037c09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libtraceevent/template
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# Template file for 'libtraceevent'
+pkgname=libtraceevent
+version=1.6.3
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-makefile
+make_build_args="libdir_relative=lib${XBPS_TARGET_WORDSIZE}"
+make_build_target="all doc"
+make_install_args="$make_build_args pkgconfig_dir=/usr/lib/pkgconfig"
+make_install_target="install doc-install"
+hostmakedepends="asciidoc xmlto source-highlight pkg-config"
+checkdepends="CUnit-devel"
+short_desc="Linux kernel trace event library"
+maintainer="Orphaned <orphan@voidlinux.org>"
+license="GPL-2.0-only, LGPL-2.1-only"
+homepage="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtraceevent.git/"
+distfiles="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtraceevent.git/snapshot/libtraceevent-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=031e4428586788bb835d894f7f11c54e482764063d96ead303c7f208fb59e353
+
+do_check() {
+	make ${makejobs} test
+	utest/trace-utest
+}
+
+libtraceevent-devel_package() {
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision} ${makedepends}"
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/share/man/man3
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.a"
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+		vmove usr/share/doc
+	}
+}