diff --git a/community/libgcab/APKBUILD b/community/libgcab/APKBUILD
index 7cb08ec3b9379d3eb6a73909bd6b27a1eaaaa138..5903fc2d9e698dec5d0ef4f1395d0f6f8891ea5d 100644
--- a/community/libgcab/APKBUILD
+++ b/community/libgcab/APKBUILD
@@ -1,17 +1,15 @@
 # Contributor: Francesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org>
 # Maintainer: Francesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org>
 pkgname=libgcab
-pkgver=1.5
+pkgver=1.6
 pkgrel=0
-pkgdesc="A GObject library to create cabinet files"
+pkgdesc="GObject library to create cabinet files"
 url="https://wiki.gnome.org/msitools"
 arch="all"
 license="LGPL-2.0-or-later"
 makedepends="meson gobject-introspection-dev glib-dev vala gtk-doc"
 subpackages="$pkgname-dev $pkgname-doc $pkgname-lang"
-source="https://download.gnome.org/sources/gcab/$pkgver/gcab-$pkgver.tar.xz
-	no-git.patch
-	"
+source="https://download.gnome.org/sources/gcab/$pkgver/gcab-$pkgver.tar.xz"
 builddir="$srcdir"/gcab-$pkgver
 
 build() {
@@ -30,6 +28,5 @@ package() {
 }
 
 sha512sums="
-2a9b7d2720abbb5527d478ac760898ae254d08b7aa929fbb21753296e5a07c51d62e134a3f8b1b21d9b557d4093505194e09823ddbaf58465d37b372f37534b7  gcab-1.5.tar.xz
-0c717b13dbb46c392f772a6184209ac625472e058b886d6a57cc37a0fe0f0973066f521ba03594bb107e66f1c39a3a8843ee3320404aa69decfb9d52c2ce0db4  no-git.patch
+26b8dcf47ba98e7cc073a551d1c965c13a72d298c8a4e124823bdbb20fe314c8f687232df9ae824a54d81f96fe7d9ac1a40aed24e51f8706595079cec2c61fc9  gcab-1.6.tar.xz
 "
diff --git a/community/libgcab/no-git.patch b/community/libgcab/no-git.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index d57ad48168e4f2a98a7a6417896f157a39eb88bb..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/community/libgcab/no-git.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-prevents a git call that fails due to git ceiling set
-diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
-index 15fd5cd..6c1078d 100644
---- a/meson.build
-+++ b/meson.build
-@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ project('gcab', 'c',
- 
- git_version = []
- git = find_program('git', required: false)
--if git.found()
-+if false
-   git_version = run_command(git, 'describe', '--abbrev=4', '--dirty', check: true).stdout().strip().split('-')
- endif
-