diff --git a/packages/ncurses/build.sh b/packages/ncurses/build.sh
index 5dab58a66..449bc29df 100755
--- a/packages/ncurses/build.sh
+++ b/packages/ncurses/build.sh
@@ -1,24 +1,13 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Library for text-based user interfaces in a terminal-independent manner"
 _MAJOR_VERSION=6.0
-# This is the patch number used for fetching a patch from ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/6.0/
-# in termux_step_post_extract_package below:
-_MINOR_VERSION=20160910
+_MINOR_VERSION=20160924
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=${_MAJOR_VERSION}.${_MINOR_VERSION}
-TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_REVISION=1
-TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-${_MAJOR_VERSION}.tar.gz
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/current/ncurses-${_MAJOR_VERSION}-${_MINOR_VERSION}.tgz
 # --without-normal disables static libraries:
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--enable-overwrite --enable-const --without-cxx-binding --without-normal --without-static --with-shared --without-debug --enable-widec --enable-ext-colors --enable-ext-mouse --enable-pc-files --with-pkg-config-libdir=$PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR --without-ada --without-tests --mandir=$TERMUX_PREFIX/share/man ac_cv_header_locale_h=no"
 TERMUX_PKG_RM_AFTER_INSTALL="bin/ncursesw6-config share/man/man1/ncursesw6-config.1 bin/infotocap share/man/man1/infotocap.1m bin/captoinfo share/man/man1/captoinfo.1m"
 
-termux_step_post_extract_package () {
-	cd $TERMUX_PKG_SRCDIR
-	_PATCH_FILENAME=ncurses-${_MAJOR_VERSION}-${_MINOR_VERSION}-patch.sh
-	_PATCHFILE=$TERMUX_PKG_CACHEDIR/$_PATCH_FILENAME
-	test ! -f $_PATCHFILE && curl "ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/${_MAJOR_VERSION}/${_PATCH_FILENAME}.bz2" | bunzip2 - > $_PATCHFILE
-	sh $_PATCHFILE
-}
-
 termux_step_post_make_install () {
 	cd $TERMUX_PREFIX/lib
 	for lib in form menu ncurses panel; do