diff --git a/srcpkgs/appdata-tools/template b/srcpkgs/appdata-tools/template
index 3613bef253e..40779679ba1 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/appdata-tools/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/appdata-tools/template
@@ -12,6 +12,6 @@ homepage="http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata"
 distfiles="http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/releases/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.xz"
 checksum=401583d27f0f91bbc03de09f53efd4bf86b20da37d6930ff7bff297d7f1e5461
 
-post_configure() {
+post_patch() {
 	vsed -i -e 's/DATADIRNAME=lib/DATADIRNAME=share/' configure
 }