diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index b21f95922d1..2e49544dd5a 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -3318,3 +3318,4 @@ libbaseencode.so.1 libbaseencode-1.0.9_1
 libcotp.so.12 libcotp-1.2.1_1
 libunarr.so.1 libunarr-1.0.1_1
 libretro-gtk-0.14.so.0 retro-gtk-0.16.0_1
+libmanette-0.2.so.0 libmanette-0.2.1_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libmanette-devel b/srcpkgs/libmanette-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..6c05872712f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libmanette-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libmanette
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libmanette/template b/srcpkgs/libmanette/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6bd911520c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libmanette/template
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# Template file for 'libmanette'
+pkgname=libmanette
+version=0.2.1
+revision=1
+build_style=meson
+hostmakedepends="glib-devel gobject-introspection pkg-config vala"
+makedepends="libevdev-devel libglib-devel libgudev-devel"
+short_desc="A simple GObject game controller library"
+maintainer="Rasmus Thomsen <rasmus.thomsen@protonmail.com>"
+license="GPL-3.0-or-later"
+homepage="https://gitlab.gnome.org/aplazas/libmanette"
+distfiles="${GNOME_SITE}/${pkgname}/${version%.*}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.xz"
+checksum=023508e8cbae3c24697a6145aea6a0ba888e0a920fe8ee87f7231972c1f87893
+nocross="Hard dependency on gobject-introspection"
+
+libmanette-devel_package() {
+	depends="libglib-devel ${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+		vmove usr/share/gir-1.0
+		vmove usr/share/vala
+	}
+}