diff --git a/gnu/packages/xml.scm b/gnu/packages/xml.scm
index 7b3d222cb0..2c4cda54a3 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/xml.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/xml.scm
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ (define-public perl-xml-parser
     (source (origin
              (method url-fetch)
              (uri (string-append
-                   "mirror://cpan/authors/id/M/MS/MSERGEANT/XML-Parser-"
+                   "mirror://cpan/authors/id/T/TO/TODDR/XML-Parser-"
                    version ".tar.gz"))
              (sha256
               (base32
@@ -149,3 +149,41 @@ (define-public perl-xml-parser
 as extra arguments to the parse methods, in which case they override options
 given at XML::Parser creation time.")
     (home-page "http://search.cpan.org/~toddr/XML-Parser-2.41/Parser.pm")))
+
+(define-public intltool
+  (package
+    (name "intltool")
+    (version "0.50.2")
+    (source (origin
+             (method url-fetch)
+             (uri (string-append "https://launchpad.net/intltool/trunk/"
+                                 version "/+download/intltool-"
+                                 version ".tar.gz"))
+             (sha256
+              (base32
+               "01j4yd7i84n9nk4ccs6yifg84pp68nr9by57jdbhj7dpdxf5rwk7"))))
+    (build-system gnu-build-system)
+    (propagated-inputs
+     `(("perl" ,perl)
+       ("perl-xml-parser" ,perl-xml-parser)))
+    (arguments
+      `(#:phases
+         (alist-replace
+          'configure
+          (lambda* (#:key inputs #:allow-other-keys #:rest args)
+            (let ((configure (assoc-ref %standard-phases 'configure))
+                  (perl-xml-parser (assoc-ref inputs "perl-xml-parser")))
+              ;; FIXME: This should be done more centrally.
+              (setenv "PERL5LIB" (string-append perl-xml-parser "/lib/perl5/site_perl"))
+              (apply configure args)))
+         %standard-phases)))
+    (home-page "https://launchpad.net/intltool/+download")
+    (synopsis "Utility scripts for internationalising xml")
+    (description
+     "intltool automatically extracts translatable strings from oaf, glade,
+bonobo ui, nautilus theme and other XML files into the po files.
+It automatically merges translations from po files back into .oaf files
+(encoding to be 7-bit clean). The merging mechanism can also be extended to
+support other types of XML files.")
+    (license license:gpl2+)))
+