diff --git a/devel/newt/Makefile b/devel/newt/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d2fe4fcb1d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/newt/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.1.1.1 2012/09/05 07:31:48 jasper Exp $
+
+COMMENT=		programming library for color text mode, widget based UIs
+
+VERSION=		0.52.14
+DISTNAME=		newt-${VERSION}
+REVISION=0
+SHARED_LIBS +=  newt                      0.0 # 0.52
+CATEGORIES=		devel
+
+HOMEPAGE=		https://fedorahosted.org/newt/
+
+MASTER_SITES=		https://fedorahosted.org/releases/n/e/newt/
+
+# LGPLv2.1
+PERMIT_PACKAGE_CDROM=   Yes
+PERMIT_PACKAGE_FTP=     Yes
+PERMIT_DISTFILES_CDROM= Yes
+PERMIT_DISTFILES_FTP=   Yes
+
+MODULES=		devel/gettext \
+			lang/python
+
+LIB_DEPENDS=		devel/libslang \
+			devel/popt
+
+WANTLIB += c m ncurses popt pthread slang util termcap ${MODPY_WANTLIB}
+
+USE_GMAKE=		Yes
+
+CONFIGURE_STYLE=	gnu
+CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	--without-tcl \
+			--with-python
+CONFIGURE_ENV+=		CPPFLAGS="-I${LOCALBASE}/include" \
+			LDFLAGS="-L${LOCALBASE}/lib -lm -ltermcap -lintl -liconv"
+
+MAKE_FLAGS=		MAKE_PROGRAM=${MAKE_PROGRAM}
+
+NO_REGRESS=		Yes
+
+SUBST_VARS+=		VERSION
+
+pre-configure:
+	perl -pi -e 's,^(SONAME=).*,SONAME=${LIBnewt_VERSION},g;' \
+		-e 's,PYTHONVERS=.*,PYTHONVERS=python${MODPY_VERSION},g' ${WRKSRC}/configure
+
+pre-install:
+	${SUBST_CMD} -c ${FILESDIR}/setup.py ${WRKSRC}/setup.py
+	cd ${WRKSRC} && ${MAKE_ENV} ${MODPY_BIN} setup.py install --prefix=${PREFIX}
+
+.include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/newt/distinfo b/devel/newt/distinfo
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..200cc8e7256
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/newt/distinfo
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+SHA256 (newt-0.52.14.tar.gz) = 9w9PWLqmA4jd8uOSSf+wCJj7QPKydn5C4qtR/ktAl44=
+SIZE (newt-0.52.14.tar.gz) = 183621
diff --git a/devel/newt/files/setup.py b/devel/newt/files/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e928d99ec88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/newt/files/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# $OpenBSD: setup.py,v 1.1.1.1 2012/09/05 07:31:48 jasper Exp $
+
+import os
+from distutils.core import setup, Extension
+
+setup ( name = 'newt',
+	version = '${VERSION}',
+	description = 'Python interface to Newt module',
+	py_modules = ['snack'],
+	ext_modules = [ Extension(
+		name='_snack',
+		sources=['snackmodule.c'],
+		include_dirs=['.', '${LOCALBASE}'+'/include', '${TRUEPREFIX}'+'/include'],
+		library_dirs=['.', '${LOCALBASE}'+'/lib', '${TRUEPREFIX}'+'/lib'],
+		libraries=['newt', 'popt', 'slang', 'ncurses']
+	)])
diff --git a/devel/newt/patches/patch-Makefile_in b/devel/newt/patches/patch-Makefile_in
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..26a2ba76598
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/newt/patches/patch-Makefile_in
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+$OpenBSD: patch-Makefile_in,v 1.1.1.1 2012/09/05 07:31:48 jasper Exp $
+--- Makefile.in.orig	Fri Nov 11 12:00:15 2011
++++ Makefile.in	Wed Sep  5 09:27:50 2012
+@@ -115,9 +115,7 @@ $(SHAREDDIR):
+ sharedlib: $(LIBNEWTSH)
+ 
+ $(LIBNEWTSH): $(SHAREDDIR) $(SHAREDOBJS)
+-	$(CC) -shared -o $(LIBNEWTSH) $(SHLIBFLAGS) $(SHAREDOBJS) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS)
+-	ln -fs $(LIBNEWTSONAME) libnewt.so
+-	ln -fs $(LIBNEWTSH) $(LIBNEWTSONAME)
++	$(CC) -shared -o $(LIBNEWTSONAME) $(SHLIBFLAGS) $(SHAREDOBJS) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS)
+ 
+ $(SHAREDDIR)/%.o : %.c
+ 	$(CC) $(SHCFLAGS) -c $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -o $@ $<
+@@ -132,14 +130,12 @@ install: $(LIBNEWT) install-sh whiptail
+ 	install -m 644 $(LIBNEWT) $(instroot)/$(libdir)
+ 	install -m 755 whiptail $(instroot)/$(bindir)
+ 	install -m 644 whiptail.1 $(instroot)/$(man1dir)
+-	make -C po datadir=$(instroot)/$(datadir) install
++	${MAKE_PROGRAM} -C po datadir=$(instroot)/$(datadir) install
+ 	install -m 644 libnewt.pc $(instroot)/$(pkgconfigdir)
+ 
+ install-sh: sharedlib $(WHIPTCLSO) _snackmodule.so
+ 	[ -d $(instroot)/$(libdir) ] || install -m 755 -d $(instroot)/$(libdir)
+-	install -m 755 $(LIBNEWTSH) $(instroot)/$(libdir)
+-	ln -sf $(LIBNEWTSONAME) $(instroot)/$(libdir)/libnewt.so
+-	ln -sf $(LIBNEWTSH) $(instroot)/$(libdir)/$(LIBNEWTSONAME)
++	install -m 755 $(LIBNEWTSONAME) $(instroot)/$(libdir)
+ 	[ -n "$(WHIPTCLSO)" ] && install -m 755 whiptcl.so $(instroot)/$(libdir) || :
+ 	[ -n "$(PYTHONVERS)" ] && for ver in $(PYTHONVERS) ; do \
+ 	   [ -d $(instroot)/$(libdir)/$$ver/site-packages ] || install -m 755 -d $(instroot)/$(libdir)/$$ver/site-packages ;\
diff --git a/devel/newt/patches/patch-form_c b/devel/newt/patches/patch-form_c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1e3640f2731
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/newt/patches/patch-form_c
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+$OpenBSD: patch-form_c,v 1.1.1.1 2012/09/05 07:31:48 jasper Exp $
+--- form.c.orig	Tue Sep  4 21:08:51 2012
++++ form.c	Tue Sep  4 21:09:14 2012
+@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
+ #include <slang.h>
+ #include <stdarg.h>
+ #include <stdlib.h>
++#include <string.h>
+ #ifdef HAVE_SYS_SELECT_H
+ #include <sys/select.h>
+ #endif
diff --git a/devel/newt/pkg/DESCR b/devel/newt/pkg/DESCR
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c68a4b78289
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/newt/pkg/DESCR
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Newt is a programming library for color text mode, widget based user
+interfaces. Newt can be used to add stacked windows, entry widgets,
+checkboxes, radio buttons, labels, plain text fields, scrollbars, etc.,
+to text mode user interfaces. Newt is based on the S-Lang library.
diff --git a/devel/newt/pkg/PLIST b/devel/newt/pkg/PLIST
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e3fd5598d32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/newt/pkg/PLIST
@@ -0,0 +1,144 @@
+@comment $OpenBSD: PLIST,v 1.1.1.1 2012/09/05 07:31:48 jasper Exp $
+@bin bin/whiptail
+include/newt.h
+lib/libnewt.a
+@lib lib/libnewt.so.${LIBnewt_VERSION}
+lib/pkgconfig/libnewt.pc
+lib/python${MODPY_VERSION}/site-packages/_snack.so
+lib/python${MODPY_VERSION}/site-packages/_snackmodule.so
+lib/python${MODPY_VERSION}/site-packages/newt-${VERSION}-py${MODPY_VERSION}.egg-info
+lib/python${MODPY_VERSION}/site-packages/snack.py
+lib/python${MODPY_VERSION}/site-packages/snack.pyc
+@man man/man1/whiptail.1
+share/locale/ar/
+share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/
+share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
+share/locale/as/
+share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/
+share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/newt.mo
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