diff --git a/srcpkgs/qjson/template b/srcpkgs/qjson/template
index 7e38f7e5d94..bf0a7fe7ac0 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/qjson/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/qjson/template
@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ makedepends="qt-devel"
 short_desc="A QT-based library that maps JSON data to QVariant objects"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-2"
-update_site="https://github.com/flavio/qjson/tags"
-update_pattern='/archive/\K[\d\.]+(?=\.tar\.gz")'
 homepage="http://qjson.sourceforge.net"
 
 do_fetch() {
diff --git a/srcpkgs/qjson/update b/srcpkgs/qjson/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6525c819eb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/qjson/update
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+site="https://github.com/flavio/qjson/tags"
+pattern='/archive/\K[\d\.]+(?=\.tar\.gz")'