diff --git a/package/base/taglib/hotfixes-gcc43.patch b/package/base/taglib/hotfixes-gcc43.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 1f163f9bb..000000000
--- a/package/base/taglib/hotfixes-gcc43.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
---- ./bindings/c/tag_c.cpp.orig	2008-06-10 19:26:34.000000000 +0200
-+++ ./bindings/c/tag_c.cpp	2008-06-10 19:26:50.000000000 +0200
-@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
- 
- #include "tag_c.h"
- 
-+#include <string.h>
-+
- #include <fileref.h>
- #include <tfile.h>
- #include <vorbisfile.h>
---- ./taglib/toolkit/tbytevector.cpp.orig	2008-06-10 19:24:06.000000000 +0200
-+++ ./taglib/toolkit/tbytevector.cpp	2008-06-10 19:24:14.000000000 +0200
-@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
-  ***************************************************************************/
- 
- #include <iostream>
-+#include <string.h>
- 
- #include <tstring.h>
- #include <tdebug.h>
---- ./taglib/toolkit/tfile.cpp.orig	2008-06-10 19:24:28.000000000 +0200
-+++ ./taglib/toolkit/tfile.cpp	2008-06-10 19:24:49.000000000 +0200
-@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
- #include "tdebug.h"
- 
- #include <stdio.h>
-+#include <stdlib.h>
-+#include <string.h>
- #include <sys/stat.h>
- #include <unistd.h>
- 
---- ./taglib/toolkit/tstring.cpp.orig	2008-06-10 19:23:21.000000000 +0200
-+++ ./taglib/toolkit/tstring.cpp	2008-06-10 19:23:46.000000000 +0200
-@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
- #include "tdebug.h"
- 
- #include <iostream>
-+#include <string.h>
- 
- namespace TagLib {
- 
diff --git a/package/base/taglib/taglib.desc b/package/base/taglib/taglib.desc
index f9d223842..e4d48f33e 100644
--- a/package/base/taglib/taglib.desc
+++ b/package/base/taglib/taglib.desc
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@
 
 [L] LGPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 1.4
+[V] 1.5
 [P] X --?--5---9 148.900
 
-[D] 280222526 taglib-1.4.tar.gz http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/files/src/
+[D] 786725309 taglib-1.5.tar.gz http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/files/src/