diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
index c20f4efd9fc..3bc5865b922 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
@@ -6040,11 +6040,16 @@ rec {
     };
   };
 
-  StatisticsDescriptive = buildPerlPackage rec {
-    name = "Statistics-Descriptive-3.0202";
+  StatisticsDescriptive = buildPerlPackage {
+    name = "Statistics-Descriptive-3.0605";
     src = fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://cpan/modules/by-module/Statistics/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "0y8l3dkhfc2gqwfigrg363ac7pxcyshdna66afpdvs8r1gd53a1i";
+      url = mirror://cpan/authors/id/S/SH/SHLOMIF/Statistics-Descriptive-3.0605.tar.gz;
+      sha256 = "8e7dae184444e27ee959e33b3ae161cc83115d11da189ed5003b004450e04b48";
+    };
+    meta = {
+      homepage = http://web-cpan.berlios.de/modules/Statistics-Descriptive/;
+      description = "Module of basic descriptive statistical functions";
+      license = "perl";
     };
   };