diff --git a/srcpkgs/libsoup/libsoup-devel.template b/srcpkgs/libsoup/libsoup-devel.template
index a864eedb05..ab44ec138c 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libsoup/libsoup-devel.template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libsoup/libsoup-devel.template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'libsoup-devel'.
 #
 noarch=yes
-depends="glib-devel libxml2-devel libsoup>=${version}"
+depends="glib-devel libxml2-devel libsoup-${version}_${revision}"
 short_desc="${sourcepkg} -- development files"
 long_desc="${long_desc}
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libsoup/libsoup-gnome-devel.template b/srcpkgs/libsoup/libsoup-gnome-devel.template
index 9860553cd5..7f6769c20e 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libsoup/libsoup-gnome-devel.template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libsoup/libsoup-gnome-devel.template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'libsoup-gnome-devel'.
 #
 noarch=yes
-depends="libsoup-devel>=${version} libsoup-gnome>=${version}"
+depends="libsoup-devel-${version}_${revision} libsoup-gnome-${version}_${revision}"
 short_desc="${sourcepkg} - GNOME development files"
 long_desc="${long_desc}
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libsoup/libsoup-gnome.rshlibs b/srcpkgs/libsoup/libsoup-gnome.rshlibs
index 9514c4669b..2ca6c00c9a 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libsoup/libsoup-gnome.rshlibs
+++ b/srcpkgs/libsoup/libsoup-gnome.rshlibs
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 libsoup-2.4.so.1
-libxml2.so.2
-libz.so.1
 libgio-2.0.so.0
 libgobject-2.0.so.0
 libsqlite3.so.0
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libsoup/libsoup.rshlibs b/srcpkgs/libsoup/libsoup.rshlibs
index 8b99445386..fd5d61be24 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libsoup/libsoup.rshlibs
+++ b/srcpkgs/libsoup/libsoup.rshlibs
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ libgio-2.0.so.0
 libgobject-2.0.so.0
 libglib-2.0.so.0
 libxml2.so.2
-libz.so.1
 libc.so.6
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libsoup/template b/srcpkgs/libsoup/template
index df1685ec38..831fa99749 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libsoup/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libsoup/template
@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
 # Template file for 'libsoup'
 pkgname=libsoup
-version=2.40.0
+version=2.40.1
 revision=1
 subpackages="$pkgname-gnome $pkgname-gnome-devel $pkgname-devel"
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--disable-static"
 makedepends="pkg-config intltool gobject-introspection glib-devel
-libgcrypt-devel libgpg-error-devel libxml2-devel gnutls-devel
-sqlite-devel libgnome-keyring-devel>=3.6.0"
+ libgcrypt-devel libgpg-error-devel libxml2-devel gnutls-devel
+ sqlite-devel libgnome-keyring-devel>=3.6.0"
 fulldepends="glib-networking"
 short_desc="HTTP library implementation in C"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://www.gnome.org"
 license="LGPL-2.1"
 distfiles="${GNOME_SITE}/$pkgname/2.40/$pkgname-$version.tar.xz"
-checksum=ef65eb6d48e9525ad0fb82f964d3001e86921330317b51082d3dd0afc41d2ea9
+checksum=77a55d57e7e8055acd2f44e0cc889b9ba48052e8b7f07e829157d57417ac650a
 long_desc="
  Libsoup is an HTTP library implementation in C. It was originally part
  of a SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) implementation called Soup, but