diff --git a/srcpkgs/perl-Locale-PO/template b/srcpkgs/perl-Locale-PO/template
index ff35460a183..e748e3d9ecb 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/perl-Locale-PO/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/perl-Locale-PO/template
@@ -1,17 +1,16 @@
 # Template file for 'perl-Locale-PO'
 pkgname=perl-Locale-PO
-version=0.24
+version=0.27
 revision=1
-distfiles="${CPAN_SITE}/Locale/COSIMO/Locale-PO-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=b1cc2e6341776541be4b3048daae90a4e45e7280615a55d2dbb231edf38d4718
+noarch=yes
+wrksrc="Locale-PO-${version}"
 build_style="perl-module"
-hostmakedepends="perl"
+hostmakedepends="perl perl-File-Slurp"
 makedepends="${hostmakedepends}"
-depends="perl"
-maintainer="Steven R <dev@styez.com>"
+depends="${hostmakedepends}"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://search.cpan.org/~cosimo/"
 license="Artistic, GPL-1"
 short_desc="Perl module for manipulating .po entries from GNU gettext"
-
-noarch="yes"
-wrksrc="Locale-PO-${version}"
+distfiles="${CPAN_SITE}/Locale/COSIMO/Locale-PO-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=3c994a4b63e6e4e836c6f79a93f51921cab77c90c9753fe0f8b5429220d516b9