diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/txt2man/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/txt2man/default.nix
index 29bd3235dfb9..f37892a231a5 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/txt2man/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/txt2man/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, coreutils, gawk }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "txt2man-1.5.6";
+  name = "txt2man-${version}";
+  version = "1.6.0";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://mvertes.free.fr/download/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0ammlb4pwc4ya1kc9791vjl830074zrpfcmzc18lkcqczp2jaj4q";
+    url = "https://github.com/mvertes/txt2man/archive/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "168cj96974n2z0igin6j1ic1m45zyic7nm5ark7frq8j78rrx4zn";
   };
 
   preConfigure = ''