diff --git a/templates/bigreqsproto-1.0.2.tmpl b/templates/bigreqsproto-1.0.2.tmpl
index eb1f45d7f49..c531eef59aa 100755
--- a/templates/bigreqsproto-1.0.2.tmpl
+++ b/templates/bigreqsproto-1.0.2.tmpl
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Template file for 'bigreqsproto-1.0.2'
 pkgname=bigreqsproto-1.0.2
-extract_sufx=".tar.gz"
+extract_sufx=".tar.bz2"
 url=http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/proto
 build_style=gnu_configure
 pkgconfig_override="bigreqsproto.pc"