diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
index c51c663a541..284660934f6 100644
--- a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 ansicolors,
 argparse,
 basexx,
+binaryheap,
 dkjson
 fifo
 inspect
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
index c8fc051f7a9..10e249f6a93 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
@@ -70,6 +70,26 @@ basexx = buildLuarocksPackage {
     };
   };
 };
+binaryheap = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "binaryheap";
+  version = "0.4-1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+      url    = https://luarocks.org/binaryheap-0.4-1.src.rock;
+      sha256 = "11rd8r3bpinfla2965jgjdv1hilqdc1q6g1qla5978d7vzg19kpc";
+  };
+  disabled = ( luaOlder "5.1");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ lua ];  
+  buildType = "builtin";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/Tieske/binaryheap.lua";
+    description="Binary heap implementation in pure Lua";
+    license = {
+      fullName = "MIT/X11";
+    };
+  };
+};
 dkjson = buildLuarocksPackage {
   pname = "dkjson";
   version = "2.5-2";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
index 43b7b877ece..50310a39f74 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
@@ -75,4 +75,10 @@ with super;
       sed -i '/set(CMAKE_C_FLAGS/d' CMakeLists.txt
     '';
   });
- }
+
+  binaryheap = super.binaryheap.overrideAttrs(oa: {
+    meta = oa.meta // {
+      maintainers = with pkgs.lib.maintainers; oa.meta.maintainers ++ [ vcunat ];
+    };
+  });
+}