diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 1cc1b6815e7..39c868b0314 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -4278,3 +4278,4 @@ libgsoapssl++-2.8.124.so gsoap-2.8.124_1
 libjxl.so.0.8 libjxl-0.8.2_1
 libjxl_dec.so.0.8 libjxl-0.8.2_1
 libjxl_threads.so.0.8 libjxl-0.8.2_1
+libtext-engine-0.1.so.0 text-engine-0.1.1_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/text-engine-demo b/srcpkgs/text-engine-demo
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..272d32cfd5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/text-engine-demo
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+text-engine
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/text-engine-devel b/srcpkgs/text-engine-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..272d32cfd5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/text-engine-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+text-engine
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/text-engine/patches/meson-set-soversion.patch b/srcpkgs/text-engine/patches/meson-set-soversion.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6935d0c0b9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/text-engine/patches/meson-set-soversion.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From: Jeremy Bicha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com>
+Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 12:39:45 -0400
+Subject: meson: set soversion
+
+This sets up the symlinked shared library as expected
+
+https://github.com/mjakeman/text-engine/pull/9
+---
+ src/meson.build | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+diff --git a/src/meson.build b/src/meson.build
+index faff7ad..92e0a0b 100644
+--- a/src/meson.build
++++ b/src/meson.build
+@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ text_engine_deps = [
+ text_engine_lib = shared_library('text-engine-' + api_version,
+   text_engine_sources,
+   dependencies: text_engine_deps,
++  soversion: 0,
+   install: true,
+ )
+ 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/text-engine/template b/srcpkgs/text-engine/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..fe201dfd92f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/text-engine/template
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# Template file for 'text-engine'
+pkgname=text-engine
+version=0.1.1
+revision=1
+build_style=meson
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config glib-devel"
+makedepends="libadwaita-devel"
+short_desc="Lightweight rich text framework for GTK"
+maintainer="chrysos349 <chrysostom349@gmail.com>"
+license="LGPL-2.1-or-later"
+homepage="https://github.com/mjakeman/text-engine"
+distfiles="https://github.com/mjakeman/text-engine/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=cf540d2c0150a46e8ec81c4532550357707c5d07b6116dc52e3869b1902f515f
+
+text-engine-devel_package() {
+	depends="gtk4-devel ${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+	}
+}
+
+text-engine-demo_package() {
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	short_desc+=" - demonstration application"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/bin/text-engine-demo
+	}
+}