diff --git a/srcpkgs/asciidoc/template b/srcpkgs/asciidoc/template
index 45e6be7bc7..1b2ec9bd3f 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/asciidoc/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/asciidoc/template
@@ -2,9 +2,8 @@
 pkgname=asciidoc
 version=9.1.0
 revision=1
-wrksrc=${pkgname}-py-${version}
 build_style=gnu-configure
-hostmakedepends="automake docbook-xsl libxslt python3"
+hostmakedepends="docbook-xsl libxslt python3"
 depends="docbook-xsl libxslt python3"
 conf_files="/etc/asciidoc/filters/*/*.conf /etc/asciidoc/*.conf"
 short_desc="Text based document generation"
@@ -12,9 +11,5 @@ maintainer="Orphaned <orphan@voidlinux.org>"
 license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
 homepage="https://asciidoc.org/"
 changelog="https://asciidoc.org/CHANGELOG.html"
-distfiles="https://github.com/asciidoc-py/asciidoc-py/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=5056c20157349f8dc74f005b6e88ccbf1078c4e26068876f13ca3d1d7d045fe7
-
-pre_configure() {
-	autoreconf -fi
-}
+distfiles="https://github.com/asciidoc-py/asciidoc-py/releases/download/$version/asciidoc-$version.tar.gz"
+checksum=fd499fcf51317b1aaf27336fb5e919c44c1f867f1ae6681ee197365d3065238b