diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
index 89a1c0bbbe09..8cc63963370d 100644
--- a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ dkjson,,,,,
 fifo,,,,,
 http,,,,,vcunat
 inspect,,,,,
+ldbus,,http://luarocks.org/dev,,,
 ldoc,,,,,
 lgi,,,,,
 linenoise,,,,,
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
index 2dbda51bfe8b..7eae27d85c6f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
@@ -359,6 +359,33 @@ inspect = buildLuarocksPackage {
     license.fullName = "MIT <http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>";
   };
 };
+ldbus = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "ldbus";
+  version = "scm-0";
+
+  knownRockspec = (fetchurl {
+    url    = "https://luarocks.org/dev/ldbus-scm-0.rockspec";
+    sha256 = "1yhkw5y8h1qf44vx31934k042cmnc7zcv2k0pv0g27wsmlxrlznx";
+  }).outPath;
+
+  src = fetchgit ( removeAttrs (builtins.fromJSON ''{
+  "url": "git://github.com/daurnimator/ldbus.git",
+  "rev": "9e176fe851006037a643610e6d8f3a8e597d4073",
+  "date": "2019-08-16T14:26:05+10:00",
+  "sha256": "06wcz4i5b7kphqbry274q3ivnsh331rxiyf7n4qk3zx2kvarq08s",
+  "fetchSubmodules": true
+}
+ '') ["date"]) ;
+
+  disabled = (luaOlder "5.1") || (luaAtLeast "5.4");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ lua ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/daurnimator/ldbus";
+    description = "A Lua library to access dbus.";
+    license.fullName = "MIT/X11";
+  };
+};
 ldoc = buildLuarocksPackage {
   pname = "ldoc";
   version = "1.4.6-2";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
index 30be2c197a5d..94edbd0737b7 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
@@ -76,6 +76,17 @@ with super;
     */
   });
 
+  ldbus = super.ldbus.override({
+    extraVariables = {
+      DBUS_DIR="${pkgs.dbus.lib}";
+      DBUS_ARCH_INCDIR="${pkgs.dbus.lib}/lib/dbus-1.0/include";
+      DBUS_INCDIR="${pkgs.dbus.dev}/include/dbus-1.0";
+    };
+    buildInputs = with pkgs; [
+      dbus
+    ];
+  });
+
   ljsyscall = super.ljsyscall.override(rec {
     version = "unstable-20180515";
     # package hasn't seen any release for a long time