diff --git a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
index 8978d7942504..cea3e4d36dfc 100644
--- a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
+++ b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
@@ -7822,6 +7822,13 @@
     githubId = 18535642;
     name = "Emily";
   };
+  emily-lavender = {
+    email = "emily@foggy.city";
+    github = "emily-lavender";
+    githubId = 253398252;
+    name = "Emily Lavender";
+    keys = [ { fingerprint = "3572 DE50 D71C 7DD7 1B48 8831 A7EF 615A 2AB9 1EE7"; } ];
+  };
   emilylange = {
     email = "nix@emilylange.de";
     github = "emilylange";
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/de/deps-fnl/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/de/deps-fnl/package.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3bb25de12b6a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/de/deps-fnl/package.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  fetchFromGitLab,
+  stdenv,
+  luaPackages,
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "deps.fnl";
+  version = "0.2.5";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitLab {
+    owner = "andreyorst";
+    repo = "deps.fnl";
+    tag = version;
+    hash = "sha256-gUqi0g7myWTbjILN4RQqbeeaSYcg0oVJYNO0Gv9XzNY=";
+  };
+
+  dontBuild = true;
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    runHook preInstall
+
+    mkdir -p $out/bin
+    # deps requires argv0 to be fennel as an executable lua script
+    # skipping the luarocks wrapper is fine here
+    fennelLua=$(echo ${luaPackages.fennel}/fennel*/fennel/*/bin/fennel)
+    substitute deps $out/bin/deps \
+      --replace-fail '#!/usr/bin/env fennel' "#!$fennelLua"
+    chmod +x $out/bin/deps
+
+    runHook postInstall
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Dependency and PATH manager for Fennel";
+    homepage = "https://gitlab.com/andreyorst/deps.fnl";
+    license = lib.licenses.mit;
+    mainProgram = "deps";
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ emily-lavender ];
+    platforms = lib.platforms.all;
+  };
+}