diff --git a/srcpkgs/zlib/template b/srcpkgs/zlib/template
index 238e70e98f5..bb9c4ded17d 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/zlib/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/zlib/template
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # Template build file for 'zlib'
 pkgname=zlib
-version=1.2.4
-revision=1
+version=1.2.5
 distfiles="http://www.zlib.net/$pkgname-$version.tar.bz2"
 build_style=configure
 configure_args="--prefix=/usr --shared"
@@ -10,7 +9,7 @@ if [ "${xbps_machine}" = "x86_64" ]; then
 fi
 short_desc="A compression/decompression Library"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
-checksum=d0fc3433bb3ff5bbf1d2db57a328c0be39ac4a74d4b39887af522acf7ecd5ecc
+checksum=239aead2f22f16bfcfa6a6a5150dcbd6d6f2e4d1eaa8727b5769ea014120b307
 long_desc="
  This is a general purpose data compression library. All the code
  is thread safe. The data format used by the library is described
diff --git a/srcpkgs/zlib/zlib-devel.template b/srcpkgs/zlib/zlib-devel.template
index 68a7c83f54b..c84734a2993 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/zlib/zlib-devel.template
+++ b/srcpkgs/zlib/zlib-devel.template
@@ -5,9 +5,7 @@ long_desc="${long_desc}
 
  This package contains files for development, headers, static libs, etc."
 
-revision=1
-
-Add_dependency run glibc-devel
+Add_dependency run bzip2-devel
 Add_dependency run zlib
 
 do_install()