diff --git a/base/glib/gettext-unneeded.patch b/base/glib/gettext-unneeded.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index d13871399..000000000
--- a/base/glib/gettext-unneeded.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
-# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
-#
-# Filename: package/.../glib/gettext-unneeded.patch
-# Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project
-# Copyright (C) 1998 - 2004 Clifford Wolf
-#
-# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
-#
-# This patch file is dual-licensed. It is available under the license the
-# patched project is licensed under, as long as it is an OpenSource license
-# as defined at http://www.opensource.org/ (e.g. BSD, X11) or under the terms
-# of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
-# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
-# version.
-# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
-
---- ./configure.orig	2003-06-08 19:12:01.000000000 +0300
-+++ ./configure	2003-06-19 19:17:05.000000000 +0300
-@@ -6307,18 +6307,6 @@
- 	< $srcdir/po/POTFILES.in > po/POTFILES
- 
- 
--if test "$gt_cv_have_gettext" != "yes" ; then
--  { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error:
--*** You must have either have gettext support in your C library, or use the
--*** GNU gettext library. (http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html
--" >&5
--echo "$as_me: error:
--*** You must have either have gettext support in your C library, or use the
--*** GNU gettext library. (http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html
--" >&2;}
--   { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
--fi
--
- LIBS="$INTLLIBS $LIBS"
- 
- GETTEXT_PACKAGE=glib20
diff --git a/base/glib/glib.desc b/base/glib/glib.desc
index 65ddaf74a..756b74141 100644
--- a/base/glib/glib.desc
+++ b/base/glib/glib.desc
@@ -26,8 +26,7 @@
 
 [L] LGPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 2.14.4
+[V] 2.16.5
 [P] X ??---5---9 108.700
 
-[D] 3350036477 glib-2.14.4.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/glib/2.14/
-
+[D] 4197385318 glib-2.16.5.tar.bz2 http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glib/2.16/