diff --git a/vars/build.vars b/vars/build.vars
index 1e5bc18..e1667c3 100644
--- a/vars/build.vars
+++ b/vars/build.vars
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ NATIVE_PACKAGES_DEPS_MAKEFLAGS_INSTALL="PREFIX= prefix=";
 NATIVE_PACKAGES_DEPS_PACKAGES="
 clzip expat libxml2 alsa_lib apr apr_util bzip2 libdmtx libressl libnettle
 libunistring gnutls curl libz lmdb libpng libjpeg_turbo tiff giflib lcms2 libffi gdbm
-geoip pcre glib gzip libarchive libatomic_ops musl_compat libbsd libpipeline
+geoip pcre glib gzip libarchive libatomic_ops musl_compat libbsd libpipeline libtelnet
 libevent libfetch libogg libvorbis libflac libtheora libsasl2 libsndfile libgpg_error libassuan
 libfirm libgcrypt libksba libudns lua ncurses ncursestw ncursesw libreadline
 libxslt libtirpc npth popt file xz zstd rpm libsolv tdnf shared_mime_info
@@ -535,6 +535,9 @@ NATIVE_PACKAGES_DEPS_PYTHON="${PREFIX}/bin/python";
 : ${PKG_LIBPIPELINE_VERSION:=1.4.1};
 : ${PKG_LIBPIPELINE_URL:=http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/libpipeline/libpipeline-${PKG_LIBPIPELINE_VERSION}.tar.gz};
 : ${PKG_LIBPIPELINE_CFLAGS_BUILD_EXTRA:=-Dprogram_name=program_invocation_name};
+: ${PKG_LIBTELNET_SHA256SUM:=d2f01a9dc0cc01777844b6d27f0f836dad9a4b9a32a31c7bbde0762480262f25};
+: ${PKG_LIBTELNET_VERSION:=0.23};
+: ${PKG_LIBTELNET_URL:=https://github.com/seanmiddleditch/libtelnet/releases/download/${PKG_LIBTELNET_VERSION}/libtelnet-${PKG_LIBTELNET_VERSION}.tar.gz};
 : ${PKG_LIBEVENT_SHA256SUM:=71c2c49f0adadacfdbe6332a372c38cf9c8b7895bb73dabeaa53cdcc1d4e1fa3};
 : ${PKG_LIBEVENT_VERSION:=2.0.22-stable};
 : ${PKG_LIBEVENT_URL:=https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/download/release-${PKG_LIBEVENT_VERSION}/libevent-${PKG_LIBEVENT_VERSION}.tar.gz};