diff --git a/base/file/file.conf b/base/file/file.conf
index 620daff15..ca211937c 100644
--- a/base/file/file.conf
+++ b/base/file/file.conf
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 #
 # Filename: package/.../file/file.conf
+# Copyright (C) 2014 The OpenSDE Project
 # Copyright (C) 2006 The T2 SDE Project
 #
 # More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
@@ -12,4 +13,7 @@
 # GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING.
 # --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
 
+# Needed because otherwise Makefile wants to run aclocal-1.14..
+hook_add preconf 9 'autoreconf -ivf'
+
 [ "$SDECFG_STATIC" == "0" ] || var_append confopt ' ' '--enable-shared=no'
diff --git a/base/file/file.desc b/base/file/file.desc
index 7aa7c6b75..51a7d3303 100644
--- a/base/file/file.desc
+++ b/base/file/file.desc
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@
 
 [L] BSD
 [S] Stable
-[V] 5.16
+[V] 5.21
 [P] X 01---5---9 105.950
 
-[D] 3994538665 file-5.16.tar.gz ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/
+[D] 1020187104 file-5.21.tar.gz ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/