diff --git a/srcpkgs/rest/rest-devel.template b/srcpkgs/rest/rest-devel.template
index 66a53e267a8..1832beef991 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/rest/rest-devel.template
+++ b/srcpkgs/rest/rest-devel.template
@@ -6,9 +6,8 @@ long_desc="${long_desc}
  This package contains files for development, headers, static libs, etc."
 
 Add_dependency run glib-devel
-Add_dependency run libxml2-devel
 Add_dependency run libsoup-devel
-Add_dependency run libsoup-gnome-devel
+Add_dependency run libxml2-devel
 Add_dependency run rest
 
 do_install()
diff --git a/srcpkgs/rest/template b/srcpkgs/rest/template
index 5d8778471e4..996bbf044aa 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/rest/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/rest/template
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 # Template file for 'rest'
 pkgname=rest
-version=0.7.10
-distfiles="${GNOME_SITE}/$pkgname/0.7/$pkgname-$version.tar.bz2"
+version=0.7.11
+homepage="http://www.gnome.org"
+distfiles="${GNOME_SITE}/$pkgname/0.7/$pkgname-$version.tar.xz"
 build_style=gnu-configure
 short_desc="RESTful library"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
-checksum=2908f974ae6cc71af1152d419209f307bcce8ca2dfe0b4b55b3fad8ba4a646a5
+license="GPL-2"
+checksum=3a57a56433761c87ccdbfe6d57119361dc004286356c12815dc7a22b7b315490
 long_desc="
  This library has been designed to make it easier to access web services that
  claim to be RESTful. A reasonable definition of what this means can be found