diff --git a/package/rene/libpng/libpng.conf b/package/rene/libpng/libpng.conf
index 0c465935f..45519a41a 100644
--- a/package/rene/libpng/libpng.conf
+++ b/package/rene/libpng/libpng.conf
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 var_append makeopt ' ' "prefix=$root/$prefix"
 var_append makeinstopt ' ' "prefix=$root/$prefix"
 
-premake="ln -s scripts/makefile.linux Makefile"
 postmake="ln -sf libpng12/png.h /usr/include/png.h ; \
           ln -sf libpng12/pngconf.h /usr/include/pngconf.h"
 
diff --git a/package/rene/libpng/libpng.desc b/package/rene/libpng/libpng.desc
index 7227e8b29..b04578ff2 100644
--- a/package/rene/libpng/libpng.desc
+++ b/package/rene/libpng/libpng.desc
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@
 
 [L] OpenSource
 [S] Stable
-[V] 1.2.7
+[V] 1.2.8
 [P] X -?---5---9 112.550
 
-[D] 1805532704 libpng-1.2.7.tar.bz2 http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libpng/
+[D] 3732110695 libpng-1.2.8-config.tar.gz http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libpng/