diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/pkgconfig/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/pkgconfig/default.nix
index b15f04264aa..4f04a3093d0 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/pkgconfig/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/pkgconfig/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "pkgconfig-0.15.0";
+  name = "pkgconfig-0.17.2";
   builder = ./builder.sh;
   setupHook = ./setup-hook.sh;
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/pkgconfig-0.15.0.tar.gz;
-    md5 = "a7e4f60a6657dbc434334deb594cc242";
+    url = http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkgconfig-0.17.2.tar.gz;
+    md5 = "a0829ae71b586e027183b2a1cfe0ce88";
   };
 }