diff --git a/dev-lua/luacheck/files/luacheck-0.23.0-disable-measuring-performance-test.patch b/dev-lua/luacheck/files/luacheck-0.23.0-disable-measuring-performance-test.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..04d40ec958b6a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-lua/luacheck/files/luacheck-0.23.0-disable-measuring-performance-test.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+--- a/spec/cli_spec.lua
++++ b/spec/cli_spec.lua
+@@ -68,10 +68,6 @@
+       assert.equal(0, get_exitcode "spec/samples/good_code.lua --no-config")
+    end)
+ 
+-   it("allows measuring performance", function()
+-      assert.equal(0, get_exitcode "spec/samples/good_code.lua --no-config --profile")
+-   end)
+-
+    it("removes ./ in the beginnings of file names", function()
+       assert.equal([[
+ Checking spec/samples/good_code.lua               OK
diff --git a/dev-lua/luacheck/luacheck-0.23.0-r100.ebuild b/dev-lua/luacheck/luacheck-0.23.0-r100.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..995faeb6e6998
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-lua/luacheck/luacheck-0.23.0-r100.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+LUA_COMPAT=( lua5-{1..3} luajit )
+
+inherit lua toolchain-funcs
+
+DESCRIPTION="A tool for linting and static analysis of Lua code"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/mpeterv/luacheck"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/mpeterv/luacheck/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~x86"
+IUSE="doc test"
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-lua/lua-argparse-0.6.0-r100[${LUA_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-lua/lua-utf8-0.1.3-r100[${LUA_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-lua/luafilesystem-1.8.0-r100[${LUA_USEDEP}]
+"
+
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+
+BDEPEND="
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+	doc? ( dev-python/sphinx )
+	test? (
+		>=dev-lua/busted-2.0.0-r100[${LUA_USEDEP}]
+		${RDEPEND}
+	)
+"
+
+PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}/${PN}-0.23.0-disable-measuring-performance-test.patch" )
+
+src_compile() {
+	if use doc; then
+		sphinx-build docsrc html || die
+	fi
+}
+
+lua_src_test() {
+	busted --lua=${ELUA} || die
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	lua_foreach_impl lua_src_test
+}
+
+lua_src_install() {
+	insinto "$(lua_get_lmod_dir)"
+	doins -r src/luacheck
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	lua_foreach_impl lua_src_install
+
+	newbin bin/luacheck.lua luacheck
+
+	use doc && local -a HTML_DOCS=( "html/." )
+	einstalldocs
+}
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index 2eaf9456d6236..83b1ae122dc59 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -518,6 +518,7 @@ dev-lua/luacrypto
 >=dev-lua/lua-utf8-0.1.3-r100
 >=dev-lua/lua-zlib-1.2-r100
 >=dev-lua/LuaBitOp-1.0.2-r100
+>=dev-lua/luacheck-0.23.0-r100
 >=dev-lua/luadbi-0.7.2-r100
 >=dev-lua/luaevent-0.4.6-r100
 =dev-lua/luaexpat-1.3.0-r100