diff --git a/srcpkgs/libgsm/template b/srcpkgs/libgsm/template
index 1d7cc0a0dc2..b6ed1f427d6 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libgsm/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libgsm/template
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ version=1.0.18
 revision=1
 wrksrc="gsm-1.0-pl18"
 homepage="http://www.quut.com/gsm/"
-distfiles="http://www.quut.com/gsm/gsm-${version}.tar.gz"
+# old distfiles from $homepage are deleted when a new version is released
+distfiles="https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libg/libgsm/libgsm_$version.orig.tar.gz"
 short_desc="GSM 06.10 lossy speech compression"
 maintainer="Orphaned <orphan@voidlinux.org>"
 license="custom"