diff --git a/testing/shared-mime-info/build b/testing/shared-mime-info/build
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..247e8189
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/shared-mime-info/build
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/bin/sh -e
+
+for i in merge update extract perl; do
+    ln -sf intltool "intltool-fake/intltool-$i"
+done
+
+export INTLTOOL_PERL="$PWD/intltool-fake/intltool-perl"
+export PATH="$PATH:$PWD/intltool-fake"
+
+./configure \
+    --prefix=/usr \
+    --disable-nls \
+    --disable-update-mimedb
+
+make
+make DESTDIR="$1" install
diff --git a/testing/shared-mime-info/checksums b/testing/shared-mime-info/checksums
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4ccd7021
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/shared-mime-info/checksums
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+18b2f0fe07ed0d6f81951a5fd5ece44de9c8aeb4dc5bb20d4f595f6cc6bd403e  shared-mime-info-1.12.tar.xz
+0dbea64d9a578d2448bf3a5ddf1ed97931cb3d7250eefbad2f75f0f8b5fdfc17  intltool
diff --git a/testing/shared-mime-info/files/intltool b/testing/shared-mime-info/files/intltool
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..744d50ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/shared-mime-info/files/intltool
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+die() { echo "$1" >&2 ; exit 1 ; }
+respond() { echo "$1" >&1 ; exit 0 ; }
+
+tool=$(basename $0)
+test "$1" = --version && respond "$tool (intltool 9.99.9)"
+
+case "$tool" in
+intltool-merge*) ;;
+intltool-perl*)
+test "$1" = -v && respond "This is not perl 5, version 99, subversion 9 (v5.99.9)"
+test "$1" = -e && {
+if test -n "$2" && test -z "$3" ; then
+  test "$2" = "require XML::Parser" && exit 0
+  printf "%s" "$2"|grep '^use 5\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*;$' >/dev/null && exit 0
+fi
+die "$0: unsupported usage"
+}
+test "$2" = "printf '%vd', $^V" && respond "5.99.9"
+test "$2" = "require XML::Parser" && exit 0
+printf "%s" "$2" | grep '^use [0-9].[0-9].[0-9];$'>/dev/null 2>&1 && exit 0
+die "$0: unsupported usage" ;;
+*) die "$0: requested functionality not implemented" ;;
+esac
+
+larg=
+sarg=
+while test -n "$1" ; do
+	case "$1" in
+		-x|-u|-d) shift ; continue ;;
+		-c) shift ; shift ; continue ;;
+	esac
+	sarg="$larg"
+	larg="$1"
+	shift
+done
+test -z "$sarg" && die "$0: need at least 2 args"
+test -r "$sarg" || die "$0: no read perms for $sarg"
+if printf "%s" "$sarg"|grep "\.xml\.in$" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
+	sed -e 's,<_\([-A-Za-z0-9_]*\)>,<\1>,g' \
+	    -e 's,</_\([-A-Za-z0-9_]*\)>,</\1>,g' \
+	< "$sarg" > "$larg"
+else
+	sed 's/^_//' < "$sarg" > "$larg"
+fi
diff --git a/testing/shared-mime-info/sources b/testing/shared-mime-info/sources
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8535fe82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/shared-mime-info/sources
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/uploads/80c7f1afbcad2769f38aeb9ba6317a51/shared-mime-info-1.12.tar.xz
+files/intltool intltool-fake/
diff --git a/testing/shared-mime-info/version b/testing/shared-mime-info/version
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..44724bd8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/shared-mime-info/version
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+1.12 1