3 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/misc/protobuf/README b/misc/protobuf/README
index b6e42f9ebd3d1..7197f97d5b9c5 100644
--- a/misc/protobuf/README
+++ b/misc/protobuf/README
@@ -8,3 +8,7 @@ read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams
 and using a variety of languages. You can even update your data
 structure without breaking deployed programs that are compiled
 against the "old" format.
+
+If you've already installed the compiz packages you will need
+to rebuild the libcompizconfig and compizconfig-python against
+the new version of protobuf.
diff --git a/misc/protobuf/protobuf.SlackBuild b/misc/protobuf/protobuf.SlackBuild
index 21260c3129f07..6e6b94dbc6505 100644
--- a/misc/protobuf/protobuf.SlackBuild
+++ b/misc/protobuf/protobuf.SlackBuild
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # Written by M.Dinslage (daedra1980@gmail.com)
 
 PRGNAM=protobuf
-VERSION=${VERSION:-2.5.0}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-2.6.1}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ find $PKG | xargs file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cp -a \
-  CHANGES.txt CONTRIBUTORS.txt COPYING.txt INSTALL.txt README.txt \
+  CHANGES.txt CONTRIBUTORS.txt INSTALL.txt README.md \
   $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
 
diff --git a/misc/protobuf/protobuf.info b/misc/protobuf/protobuf.info
index 3d63512f905de..7cce6d339feba 100644
--- a/misc/protobuf/protobuf.info
+++ b/misc/protobuf/protobuf.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="protobuf"
-VERSION="2.5.0"
+VERSION="2.6.1"
 HOMEPAGE="http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/"
-DOWNLOAD="http://protobuf.googlecode.com/files/protobuf-2.5.0.tar.bz2"
-MD5SUM="a72001a9067a4c2c4e0e836d0f92ece4"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases/download/v2.6.1/protobuf-2.6.1.tar.bz2"
+MD5SUM="11aaac2d704eef8efd1867a807865d85"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="pysetuptools"