diff --git a/srcpkgs/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-devel.template b/srcpkgs/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-devel.template
index cd471f4354..c1d95afdc1 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-devel.template
+++ b/srcpkgs/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-devel.template
@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@
 depends="perl libpng-devel>=1.5.10 shared-mime-info
  ${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
 short_desc="${short_desc} - development files"
-long_desc="
- ${pkgname} is An image loading library for GTK+.
-
- This package contains development files: headers, static libs, etc."
 
 do_install() {
 	vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig usr/lib
diff --git a/srcpkgs/gdk-pixbuf/template b/srcpkgs/gdk-pixbuf/template
index c44353d3ab..247257f9fa 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/gdk-pixbuf/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/gdk-pixbuf/template
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 # Template build file for 'gdk-pixbuf'.
 pkgname=gdk-pixbuf
-version=2.26.5
-revision=2
+version=2.28.0
+revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 subpackages="$pkgname-devel"
 configure_args="--without-libjasper --with-included-loaders=png --with-x11"
-makedepends="perl pkg-config glib-devel libpng-devel>=1.5.10 libjpeg-turbo-devel
+hostmakedepends="perl pkg-config"
+makedepends="libglib-devel libpng-devel>=1.5.10 libjpeg-turbo-devel
  tiff-devel libX11-devel gobject-introspection"
 triggers="gtk-pixbuf-loaders"
 short_desc="An Image loading library for The GTK+ toolkit (v2)"
@@ -13,4 +14,4 @@ maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://www.gtk.org/"
 license="GPL-2"
 distfiles="${GNOME_SITE}/$pkgname/${version%.*}/$pkgname-$version.tar.xz"
-checksum=77696fd163bca95a130a1883dbd78d0ae4d782de2fc85a9a38556d13681f5c84
+checksum=561e37695bfb1b07549588b3fca2e6f05b2320eee75b13748bb7dc5e1257d347