diff --git a/srcpkgs/rarian-devel b/srcpkgs/rarian-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..424085704e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/rarian-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+rarian
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/rarian/depends b/srcpkgs/rarian/depends
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f38abb5aa6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/rarian/depends
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+abi_depends=">=0.8.1"
+api_depends="${abi_depends}"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/rarian/rarian-devel.template b/srcpkgs/rarian/rarian-devel.template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..06a4c272b4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/rarian/rarian-devel.template
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# Template file for 'rarian-devel'.
+#
+short_desc="${sourcepkg} (development files)"
+long_desc="${long_desc}
+
+ This package contains files for development, headers, static libs, etc."
+
+
+do_install()
+{
+	mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib
+	mv ${SRCPKGDESTDIR}/usr/include ${DESTDIR}/usr
+	mv ${SRCPKGDESTDIR}/usr/lib/lib*.{a,so} ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib
+	mv ${SRCPKGDESTDIR}/usr/lib/pkgconfig ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/rarian/template b/srcpkgs/rarian/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3c93e07baf4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/rarian/template
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# Template file for 'rarian'
+pkgname=rarian
+version=0.8.1
+distfiles="${GNOME_SITE}/$pkgname/0.8/$pkgname-$version.tar.bz2"
+build_style=gnu_configure
+configure_args="--localstatedir=/var"
+short_desc="Documentation metadata library"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+checksum=aafe886d46e467eb3414e91fa9e42955bd4b618c3e19c42c773026b205a84577
+long_desc="
+ Rarian is a documentation metadata library based on the proposed
+ Freedesktop.org spec."
+
+subpackages="rarian-devel"
+
+Add_dependency run libgcc
+Add_dependency run glibc
+Add_dependency run libstdc++
+Add_dependency run bash
+Add_dependency build libstdc++-devel
+Add_dependency build pkg-config
+Add_dependency build libxslt
+
+post_install()
+{
+	touch -f ${DESTDIR}/var/lib/rarian/.empty_on_purpose
+}
diff --git a/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt b/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt
index bc5be4ea100..801817360e8 100644
--- a/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt
+++ b/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt
@@ -521,3 +521,4 @@ libgnomekbdui.so		libgnomekbd		libgnomekbd-devel
 libcanberra.so			libcanberra		libcanberra-devel
 libcanberra-gtk.so		libcanberra		libcanberra-devel
 libgtop-2.0.so			libgtop			libgtop-devel
+librarian.so			rarian			rarian-devel