diff --git a/backports/py3-apsw/APKBUILD b/backports/py3-apsw/APKBUILD
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1259ba3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backports/py3-apsw/APKBUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+# Contributor: Francesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org>
+# Maintainer: Francesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org>
+pkgname=py3-apsw
+_pkgname=apsw
+pkgver=3.45.2.0
+pkgrel=1
+pkgdesc="Another Python SQLite Wrapper"
+url="https://github.com/rogerbinns/apsw"
+arch="all"
+license="Zlib"
+depends="python3"
+makedepends="
+	python3-dev
+	py3-gpep517
+	py3-setuptools
+	py3-wheel
+	sqlite-dev
+	"
+subpackages="$pkgname-pyc"
+source="$pkgname-$pkgver.zip::https://github.com/rogerbinns/apsw/releases/download/$pkgver/apsw-$pkgver.zip
+	detect-sqlite-config.patch
+	"
+
+builddir="$srcdir/$_pkgname-$pkgver"
+
+build() {
+	gpep517 build-wheel \
+		--wheel-dir .dist \
+		--output-fd 3 3>&1 >&2
+}
+
+check() {
+	python3 -m venv --clear --without-pip --system-site-packages .testenv
+	.testenv/bin/python3 -m installer .dist/*.whl
+	.testenv/bin/python3 setup.py build_test_extension test
+}
+
+package() {
+	python3 -m installer -d "$pkgdir" \
+		.dist/*.whl
+}
+
+sha512sums="
+0260f6479d5f1188ad172dfc0dd7e4a03c9d809d2f80c2296e587a19286681bb2ce759b0bd19ec6957e2902f18729b7e79410e4db79dff9918089f57dd510828  py3-apsw-3.45.2.0.zip
+8f3957bd6fecb5660a7cab367043e4ccdacd87d8963bbe41cc3d525265de28f08aa207099658d785be29c5c90b818c1418f766995cd780d02b8e36252a389758  detect-sqlite-config.patch
+"
diff --git a/backports/py3-apsw/detect-sqlite-config.patch b/backports/py3-apsw/detect-sqlite-config.patch
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index 0000000..4750250
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+++ b/backports/py3-apsw/detect-sqlite-config.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+diff --git a/setup.apsw b/setup.apsw
+index 68dedb9..3ceb10b 100644
+--- a/setup.apsw
++++ b/setup.apsw
+@@ -1 +1,3 @@
+ # You can put ini format directives here in addition to command line flags
++[build_ext]
++use_system_sqlite_config = True