diff --git a/packages/dpkg/build.sh b/packages/dpkg/build.sh
index fb0998a5af..91cbcfe14d 100644
--- a/packages/dpkg/build.sh
+++ b/packages/dpkg/build.sh
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://packages.debian.org/dpkg
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Debian package management system"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-2.0"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.21.11
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.21.12
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=89f7016df222751d995e0bf84a7e0ddae20feb5ffe32ee9e9ce06fcb2ce68b94
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=ec7a0e29898f457ea21cc89826601059bce2433d2b4e578a38b2a66d8768559a
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="bzip2, coreutils, diffutils, gzip, less, libbz2, liblzma, libmd, tar, xz-utils, zlib"
 TERMUX_PKG_BREAKS="dpkg-dev"
 TERMUX_PKG_REPLACES="dpkg-dev"