diff --git a/srcpkgs/asciidoc/template b/srcpkgs/asciidoc/template
index 4e1393365d3..2988494549b 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/asciidoc/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/asciidoc/template
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 # Template file for 'asciidoc'
 pkgname=asciidoc
 version=8.6.9
-revision=1
-noarch="yes"
+revision=2
+noarch=yes
 build_style=gnu-configure
+hostmakedepends="python"
 makedepends="python libxslt docbook-xsl"
 depends="${makedepends}"
 conf_files="
@@ -37,11 +38,3 @@ homepage="http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/"
 license="GPL-2"
 distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/$pkgname/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
 checksum=78db9d0567c8ab6570a6eff7ffdf84eadd91f2dfc0a92a2d0105d323cab4e1f0
-long_desc="
- asciidoc is a text document format for writing short documents,
- articles, books and UNIX man pages. asciidoc files can be translated
- to HTML and DocBook markups using the asciidoc(1) command.
-
- AsciiDoc is highly configurable: both the AsciiDoc source file syntax
- and the backend output markups (which can be almost any type of SGML/XML
- markup) can be customized and extended by the user."