diff --git a/srcpkgs/obnam/patches/ignore-manpage-de.patch b/srcpkgs/obnam/patches/ignore-manpage-de.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..70823f1c4fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/obnam/patches/ignore-manpage-de.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+--- setup.py	2017-06-25 12:30:00.000000000 +0200
++++ setup.py	2020-05-12 22:33:18.982205695 +0200
+@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@
+     def run(self):
+         build.run(self)
+         self.build_manpage('obnam', '')
+-        self.build_manpage('obnam', '.de')
+ 
+     def build_manpage(self, program, lang):
+         print 'building manpage for %s (lang=%s)' % (program, lang)
diff --git a/srcpkgs/obnam/template b/srcpkgs/obnam/template
index 8e992f77a54..2703442cec1 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/obnam/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/obnam/template
@@ -3,16 +3,14 @@ pkgname=obnam
 version=1.22
 revision=1
 build_style=python2-module
-makedepends="python-devel python-larch python-paramiko"
 hostmakedepends="$makedepends python-yaml mdocml ncurses-term"
+makedepends="python-devel python-larch python-paramiko"
 depends="python python-larch python-paramiko python-fuse python-yaml"
-pycompile_module="obnamlib"
 short_desc="Backup program that supports encryption and deduplication"
 maintainer="Eivind Uggedal <eivind@uggedal.com>"
+license="GPL-3.0-or-later"
 homepage="http://obnam.org"
-license="GPL-3"
 distfiles="http://code.liw.fi/debian/pool/main/o/${pkgname}/${pkgname}_${version}.orig.tar.xz"
 checksum=7d584615015724b1aad72c874b8ffff682ed79e57b58136bfd68b6cb965e6a7c
-broken="UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 815: ordinal not in range"
 
 export TERM=vt100