diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index e80b5d9f43c..19068a18da0 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -2409,7 +2409,7 @@ libKF5WidgetsAddons.so.5 kwidgetsaddons-5.26.0_1
 libsearpc.so.1 libsearpc-3.0.7_1
 libccnet.so.0 ccnet-5.0.4_1
 libseafile.so.0 seafile-libclient-5.0.4_1
-libpodofo.so.0.9.5 libpodofo-0.9.5_1
+libpodofo.so.0.9.6 libpodofo-0.9.6_1
 libIrcUtil.so.3 libcommuni-3.4.0_1
 libIrcCore.so.3 libcommuni-3.4.0_1
 libIrcModel.so.3 libcommuni-3.4.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/podofo/patches/remove-copy_directory.patch b/srcpkgs/podofo/patches/remove-copy_directory.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7b4476beb2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/podofo/patches/remove-copy_directory.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+--- test/TokenizerTest/CMakeLists.txt	2007-09-16 11:33:38.000000000 +0200
++++ test/TokenizerTest/CMakeLists.txt	2018-08-13 21:31:29.943414615 +0200
+@@ -2,10 +2,3 @@
+ TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(TokenizerTest ${PODOFO_LIB} ${PODOFO_LIB_DEPENDS})
+ SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(TokenizerTest PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "${PODOFO_CFLAGS}")
+ ADD_DEPENDENCIES(TokenizerTest ${PODOFO_DEPEND_TARGET})
+-
+-# Copy the test samples over to the build tree
+-ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(
+-    TARGET TokenizerTest
+-    POST_BUILD
+-    COMMAND "${CMAKE_COMMAND}" -E copy_directory "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/objects" "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/objects"
+-    )
diff --git a/srcpkgs/podofo/template b/srcpkgs/podofo/template
index e5a936ab213..3893f5672a6 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/podofo/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/podofo/template
@@ -1,19 +1,17 @@
 # Template file for 'podofo'
 pkgname=podofo
-version=0.9.5
-revision=4
+version=0.9.6
+revision=1
 build_style=cmake
-configure_args="-DPODOFO_BUILD_SHARED=1"
-makedepends="zlib-devel libressl-devel libidn-devel freetype-devel
- fontconfig-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel lua52-devel tiff-devel"
+configure_args="-DPODOFO_BUILD_SHARED=TRUE"
+makedepends="fontconfig-devel libidn-devel libressl-devel lua-devel tiff-devel"
 short_desc="Library to work with the PDF file format"
 maintainer="Andrea Brancaleoni <abc@pompel.me>"
-license="GPL-2, LGPL-2.1"
+license="GPL-2.0-or-later, LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 homepage="http://podofo.sourceforge.net/"
-#distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
-# Temporarily use a Debian mirror
-distfiles="http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/libp/libpodofo/libpodofo_${version}.orig.tar.gz"
-checksum=854981cb897ebc14bac854ea0f25305372261a48a205363fe1c61659ba7b5304
+distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/podofo/podofo/${version}/podofo-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=e9163650955ab8e4b9532e7aa43b841bac45701f7b0f9b793a98c8ca3ef14072
+disable_parallel_build=yes
 
 libpodofo_package() {
 	replaces="podofo<0.9.3_1"