diff --git a/srcpkgs/moreutils/patches/linker.patch b/srcpkgs/moreutils/patches/linker.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..16b313b2ef3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/moreutils/patches/linker.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- is_utf8/Makefile
++++ is_utf8/Makefile
+@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ CC = gcc
+ CFLAGS = -O3 -Wextra -Wall -ansi -Wstrict-prototypes
+ 
+ $(NAME): $(OBJ)
+-	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $(NAME) $(OBJ)
++	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $(NAME) $(OBJ) $(LOADLIBES) $(LDLIBS)
+ 
+ IS_UTF8_LIB:
+ 	$(CC) --shared -fPIC $(CFLAGS) $(LIB_SRC) -o $(LINKERNAME)
diff --git a/srcpkgs/moreutils/template b/srcpkgs/moreutils/template
index 23381c7acf9..ad3d04cd939 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/moreutils/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/moreutils/template
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 # Template file for 'moreutils'
 pkgname=moreutils
-version=0.59
-revision=2
+version=0.60
+revision=1
 build_style=gnu-makefile
-wrksrc="${pkgname}-${version}.orig"
 make_build_args="DOCBOOK2XMAN=docbook2man"
 hostmakedepends="docbook2x"
 depends="perl perl-IPC-Run perl-TimeDate"
@@ -11,8 +10,8 @@ short_desc="Unix tools that nobody thought to write, when Unix was young"
 maintainer="lemmi <lemmi@nerd2nerd.org>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/"
-distfiles="${DEBIAN_SITE}/main/m/moreutils/moreutils_${version}.orig.tar.gz"
-checksum=a48e11c3197bf79a7bfaa121423e64626e3381d9fedc91d606e9724ae498d1b4
+distfiles="${DEBIAN_SITE}/main/m/moreutils/moreutils_${version}.orig.tar.xz"
+checksum=e42d18bacbd2d003779a55fb3542befa5d1d217ee37c1874e8c497581ebc17c5
 
 post_install() {
 	# rename parallel to not conflict with gnu-parllel