diff --git a/package/minicom/minicom.hash b/package/minicom/minicom.hash
index f67447212f..42a4499c85 100644
--- a/package/minicom/minicom.hash
+++ b/package/minicom/minicom.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  18fa02dc32523834ed1e5dbc3d24ff3860e74fa3c6eb817f9bdf693dde3f7d4e  minicom-v2.8-br1.tar.gz
+sha256  38cea30913a20349326ff3f1763ee1512b7b41601c24f065f365e18e9db0beba  minicom-2.8.tar.bz2
 sha256  cf80a758014eefbf068afffe3d462fc34ff4f528527524d8e100329c42094e15  COPYING
diff --git a/package/minicom/minicom.mk b/package/minicom/minicom.mk
index 616a3bd24f..1e12725983 100644
--- a/package/minicom/minicom.mk
+++ b/package/minicom/minicom.mk
@@ -4,9 +4,10 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-MINICOM_VERSION = v2.8
-MINICOM_SITE = https://salsa.debian.org/minicom-team/minicom.git
-MINICOM_SITE_METHOD = git
+MINICOM_VERSION = 2.8
+MINICOM_SOURCE = minicom-$(MINICOM_VERSION).tar.bz2
+MINICOM_SITE = \
+	https://salsa.debian.org/minicom-team/minicom/-/archive/$(MINICOM_VERSION)
 MINICOM_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+
 MINICOM_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 MINICOM_AUTORECONF = YES