diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 338fede96e6..2afcbb9a6de 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -3986,3 +3986,4 @@ libgumbo.so.1 gumbo-parser-0.10.1_2
 libmariadb.so.3 libmariadbclient-10.5.9_1
 libmariadbd.so.19 libmariadbclient-10.5.9_1
 libinstpatch-1.0.so.2 libinstpatch-1.1.6_1
+libbasu.so.0 basu-0.2.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/basu-devel b/srcpkgs/basu-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..a25387954cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/basu-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+basu
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/basu/patches/uid-nobody.patch b/srcpkgs/basu/patches/uid-nobody.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..27524c0f474
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/basu/patches/uid-nobody.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- src/basic/user-util.h
++++ src/basic/user-util.h
+@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ char* uid_to_name(uid_t uid);
+ 
+ #define UID_INVALID ((uid_t) -1)
+ 
+-#define UID_NOBODY ((uid_t) 65534U)
++#define UID_NOBODY ((uid_t) 99U)
+ 
+ bool synthesize_nobody(void);
+ 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/basu/template b/srcpkgs/basu/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1a3614b781c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/basu/template
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# Template file for 'basu'
+pkgname=basu
+version=0.2.0
+revision=1
+build_style=meson
+configure_args="-Dwerror=false"
+hostmakedepends="gperf"
+short_desc="SD-Bus library extracted from systemd"
+maintainer="Anubhav Kini <anubhavkini@gmail.com>"
+license="LGPL-2.1-or-later"
+homepage="https://github.com/emersion/basu"
+distfiles="${homepage}/releases/download/v${version}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=e2fda9b69fc6c4530173fcf8db94c29aa5f3ed932d948cc6a31892623cde5e4b
+
+basu-devel_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+	}
+}