diff --git a/srcpkgs/dialog/template b/srcpkgs/dialog/template
index 74a29bca94e..a72ba86b67b 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/dialog/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/dialog/template
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ short_desc="A tool to display dialog boxes from shell scripts"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 license="LGPL-2.1"
 homepage="http://invisible-island.net/dialog/"
-update_pattern="dialog-\K[\d.-]+(?=.tgz)"
 distfiles="ftp://invisible-island.net/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${_distver}-${_date}.tgz"
 checksum=d054766fba3dac828851f1c9852e5992eb824fd0a0dd26d87ee517242027bafc
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/dialog/update b/srcpkgs/dialog/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a69ae0da8aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/dialog/update
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+pattern="dialog-\K[\d.-]+(?=.tgz)"