diff --git a/srcpkgs/talloc-devel b/srcpkgs/talloc-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..e5668c8aed6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/talloc-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+talloc
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/talloc/depends b/srcpkgs/talloc/depends
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f5b81e443e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/talloc/depends
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+abi_depends=">=2.0.1"
+api_depends="${abi_depends}"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/talloc/talloc-devel.template b/srcpkgs/talloc/talloc-devel.template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..dac88113680
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/talloc/talloc-devel.template
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# Template file for 'talloc-devel'.
+#
+short_desc="${short_desc} (development files)"
+long_desc="${long_desc}
+
+ This package contains files for development, headers, static libs, etc."
+
+Add_dependency run pkg-config
+Add_dependency run glibc-devel
+
+do_install()
+{
+	mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib
+	mv ${SRCPKGDESTDIR}/usr/{include,share} ${DESTDIR}/usr
+	mv ${SRCPKGDESTDIR}/usr/lib/lib*.*a ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib
+	mv ${SRCPKGDESTDIR}/usr/lib/pkgconfig ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/talloc/template b/srcpkgs/talloc/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3819c5e1944
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/talloc/template
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# Template build file for 'talloc'.
+pkgname=talloc
+version=2.0.1
+distfiles="http://samba.org/ftp/$pkgname/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
+build_style=gnu_configure
+configure_args="--enable-talloc-compat1 --enable-largefile"
+short_desc="Hierarchical pool based memory allocator with destructors"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+checksum=5b810527405f29d54f50efd78bf2c89e318f2cd8bed001f22f2a1412fd27c9b4
+long_desc="
+ This package provides the talloc library: an hierarchical pool based memory
+ allocator with destructors."
+
+subpackages="$pkgname-devel"
+Add_dependency run glibc
+Add_dependency build pkg-config
+
+post_install()
+{
+	cd ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib && \
+		ln -s libtalloc.so.${version} libtalloc.so.2.0 && \
+		ln -s libtalloc.so.${version} libtalloc.so.2 && \
+		ln -s libtalloc-compat1-${version}.so libtalloc.so.1
+	
+}
diff --git a/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt b/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt
index 24de5ced0e3..0a2e887c48e 100644
--- a/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt
+++ b/xbps-src/common/mapping_shlib_binpkg.txt
@@ -646,3 +646,4 @@ libopen-rte.so			openmpi			openmpi-devel
 libmtp.so			libmtp			libmtp-devel
 libelf.so			libelf			libelf-devel
 libgtksourceview-2.0.so		gtksourceview		gtksourceview-devel
+libtalloc.so			talloc			talloc-devel