diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
index 0e6a5214050..50c7f96b82c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
@@ -11204,13 +11204,17 @@ let self = _self // overrides; _self = with self; {
   };
 
   SpreadsheetParseExcel = buildPerlPackage rec {
-    name = "Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.2603";
+    name = "Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.65";
     src = fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/K/KW/KWITKNR/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "0q5qq982528cdpqdj2wszrnf5g2rfphx0b413lczx7nvkkyy9xqz";
+      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/D/DO/DOUGW/${name}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "6ec4cb429bd58d81640fe12116f435c46f51ff1040c68f09cc8b7681c1675bec";
+    };
+    propagatedBuildInputs = [ CryptRC4 DigestPerlMD5 IOstringy OLEStorage_Lite ];
+    meta = {
+      homepage = http://github.com/runrig/spreadsheet-parseexcel/;
+      description = "Read information from an Excel file";
+      license = with stdenv.lib.licenses; [ artistic1 gpl1Plus ];
     };
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = [ IOStringy OLEStorageLight ];
   };
 
   SQLAbstract = buildPerlPackage rec {