diff --git a/p5-text-iconv/.footprint b/p5-text-iconv/.footprint
index 2c042eff6..b11c9f8e3 100644
--- a/p5-text-iconv/.footprint
+++ b/p5-text-iconv/.footprint
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/Text/
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/auto/
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/auto/Text/
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/auto/Text/Iconv/
+-r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/auto/Text/Iconv/Iconv.bs (EMPTY)
 -r-xr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/auto/Text/Iconv/Iconv.so
 -r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/auto/Text/Iconv/autosplit.ix
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/man/
diff --git a/p5-text-iconv/.md5sum b/p5-text-iconv/.md5sum
index bde383387..e100d1eea 100644
--- a/p5-text-iconv/.md5sum
+++ b/p5-text-iconv/.md5sum
@@ -1 +1 @@
-3e9306e9262ff13bb9ba29a251c5094a  Text-Iconv-1.4.tar.gz
+81b26e069eaebb084e91ea3c009b67ae  Text-Iconv-1.7.tar.gz
diff --git a/p5-text-iconv/Pkgfile b/p5-text-iconv/Pkgfile
index 561c7c414..78c12a420 100644
--- a/p5-text-iconv/Pkgfile
+++ b/p5-text-iconv/Pkgfile
@@ -1,23 +1,19 @@
-# Description:	Perl interface to the iconv codeset
-# URL:			http://search.cpan.org/~mpiotr/Text-Iconv-1.4/
-# Maintainer: unmaintained
-#
-# Depends on:	perl
+# Description: Perl interface to iconv() codeset conversion function
+# URL: http://search.cpan.org/~mpiotr/Text-Iconv/
+# Maintainer: Mikhail Kolesnik, mike at openbunker dot org
+# Depends on: 
 
 name=p5-text-iconv
-version=1.4
-release=3
-source=(http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MP/MPIOTR/Text-Iconv-${version}.tar.gz)
+version=1.7
+release=1
+source=(http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MP/MPIOTR/Text-Iconv-$version.tar.gz)
 
-build () {
+build() {
 	cd Text-Iconv-$version
-    
 	perl Makefile.PL
 	make OPTIMIZE="$CFLAGS"
 	make DESTDIR=$PKG install
-
-	rm -r $PKG/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.?
-	find $PKG -name ".packlist" -or -name "*.bs" | xargs rm
-	chown -R root:root $PKG
+	find $PKG -name .packlist -exec rm {} \;
+	find $PKG -name perllocal.pod -exec rm {} \;
+	find $PKG -depth -type d -empty -exec rm -rf {} \;
 }
-