diff --git a/srcpkgs/deheader/template b/srcpkgs/deheader/template
index 509b9ac5f8e..f3809a35a44 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/deheader/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/deheader/template
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@
 pkgname=deheader
 version=1.6
 revision=3
+create_wrksrc=yes
 archs=noarch
+hostmakedepends="tar"
 depends="python"
 short_desc="C and C++ header analyzer"
 maintainer="Orphaned <orphan@voidlinux.org>"
@@ -10,6 +12,16 @@ license="BSD-2-Clause"
 homepage="http://www.catb.org/~esr/deheader/"
 distfiles="http://www.catb.org/~esr/deheader/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=3b99665c4f0dfda31d200bf2528540d6898cb846499ee91effa2e8f72aff3a60
+skip_extraction="${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
+python_version=2
+
+do_extract() {
+	# bsdtar fails to extract version 1.6 tarball which
+	# contains a hard link from the man page to itself.
+	tar --strip-components 1 --no-same-owner --extract --file \
+		${XBPS_SRCDISTDIR}/${pkgname}-${version}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz \
+		--directory ${wrksrc}
+}
 
 do_install() {
 	vbin deheader