diff --git a/srcpkgs/dpkg/template b/srcpkgs/dpkg/template
index 9572b5bb3a2..c63d1bed871 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/dpkg/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/dpkg/template
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 # Template file for 'dpkg'
 pkgname=dpkg
-version=1.19.7
+version=1.20.0
 revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--disable-start-stop-daemon --with-libz --with-libbz2
  --with-liblzma"
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config perl"
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config perl tar"
 makedepends="zlib-devel bzip2-devel liblzma-devel ncurses-devel"
 depends="perl"
 checkdepends="gnupg perl-Test-Pod"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ maintainer="Orphaned <orphan@voidlinux.org>"
 license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
 homepage="http://packages.debian.org/dpkg"
 distfiles="${DEBIAN_SITE}/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_${version}.tar.xz"
-checksum=4c27fededf620c0aa522fff1a48577ba08144445341257502e7730f2b1a296e8
+checksum=b633cc2b0e030efb61e11029d8a3fb1123f719864c9992da2e52b471c96d0900
 
 dpkg-devel_package() {
 	short_desc+=" - development files"