diff --git a/app-text/libpaper/Manifest b/app-text/libpaper/Manifest
index 8fd05463a034f..47f83793461d6 100644
--- a/app-text/libpaper/Manifest
+++ b/app-text/libpaper/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST libpaper-1.2.3.tar.gz 1221218 BLAKE2B 55b209896e50f177b9dbd04a53a1663846a2d43c91487d62b1161a09416cbeaf3057ec5c79248a3d54eb35a61081d8e1d8fe0fb80304b03bf3a1b5151f21f2c3 SHA512 768e15f57e6c2ab6805c175ba0eebf1d130b8ff16b1c929e6557c5d8ceb7c94ead4e38cfc48021a5059e55cf43595729e8c04c9eee7949bdd516c8267fb7a6af
+DIST libpaper-1.2.4.tar.gz 1221202 BLAKE2B bdcf4372caa045207acdb28c10e7981c3f23f12ef54c989395be2efe38ece51f437fa5bf50618aae7276a864bffc0eef81ab4727b912d63673615f12bf1f2cad SHA512 1baed66c4ecc725f3eae6dda0b4401c17baf23ef846486c1249f075a6e01537c1050d9617e929cff7a38d2b32fd1f8e1e7d7e090eae300434544a92b210a0fca
 DIST libpaper_1.1.28.tar.gz 42356 BLAKE2B 48c4a28c6ff01bd91e257b6b306e787e5c6112052cff09bdb501d1cc4ddd10964c3588942098a6092d5a44391dfb22e10d5147d4c5012497f473473129ff7422 SHA512 3bf6ebb0af89931d2f72ea4a09a7fa958b2facda5f238983ec7bac39652e08614b33f0de3af74a03457b2a4203eee4950bf18a4b726e79aa64093ace6a1fb0bc
diff --git a/app-text/libpaper/libpaper-1.2.4.ebuild b/app-text/libpaper/libpaper-1.2.4.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..df529ad758d3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-text/libpaper/libpaper-1.2.4.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DESCRIPTION="Library for handling paper characteristics"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/rrthomas/libpaper"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/rrthomas/libpaper/releases/download/v${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+# paperspecs is public-domain
+LICENSE="LGPL-3+ public-domain"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~loong ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~x64-cygwin ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
+
+BDEPEND="
+	sys-apps/help2man
+"
+
+# False positive (runs within a conditional)
+QA_AM_MAINTAINER_MODE=".*help2man.*"
+
+src_configure() {
+	econf --enable-relocatable
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	default
+
+	find "${ED}" -type f -name '*.la' -delete || die
+
+	dodir /etc
+	(paperconf 2>/dev/null || echo a4) > "${ED}"/etc/papersize \
+		|| die "papersize config failed"
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	if [[ -z ${REPLACING_VERSIONS} ]] ; then
+		elog "Run e.g. \"paperconfig -p letter\" as root to use letter-pagesizes"
+	fi
+}