diff --git a/package/lm-sensors/lm-sensors.hash b/package/lm-sensors/lm-sensors.hash
index 0ca07b7e69..c941043343 100644
--- a/package/lm-sensors/lm-sensors.hash
+++ b/package/lm-sensors/lm-sensors.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  0591f9fa0339f0d15e75326d0365871c2d4e2ed8aa1ff759b3a55d3734b7d197  lm-sensors-3-6-0.tar.gz
+sha256  0591f9fa0339f0d15e75326d0365871c2d4e2ed8aa1ff759b3a55d3734b7d197  lm-sensors-3.6.0.tar.gz
 sha256  ab15fd526bd8dd18a9e77ebc139656bf4d33e97fc7238cd11bf60e2b9b8666c6  COPYING
 sha256  dc626520dcd53a22f727af3ee42c770e56c97a64fe3adb063799d8ab032fe551  COPYING.LGPL
diff --git a/package/lm-sensors/lm-sensors.mk b/package/lm-sensors/lm-sensors.mk
index 8975efaffa..1bf27fc25a 100644
--- a/package/lm-sensors/lm-sensors.mk
+++ b/package/lm-sensors/lm-sensors.mk
@@ -4,8 +4,9 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-LM_SENSORS_VERSION = 3-6-0
-LM_SENSORS_SITE = $(call github,lm-sensors,lm-sensors,V$(LM_SENSORS_VERSION))
+LM_SENSORS_VERSION = 3.6.0
+LM_SENSORS_SITE = \
+	$(call github,lm-sensors,lm-sensors,V$(subst .,-,$(LM_SENSORS_VERSION)))
 LM_SENSORS_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 LM_SENSORS_DEPENDENCIES = host-bison host-flex
 LM_SENSORS_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1+ (libsensors), GPL-2.0+ (programs)