diff --git a/packages/libapt-pkg-perl/build.sh b/packages/libapt-pkg-perl/build.sh
index f14964d8bf..cbeb769094 100644
--- a/packages/libapt-pkg-perl/build.sh
+++ b/packages/libapt-pkg-perl/build.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Perl interface to APT's libapt-pkg"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-3.0"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=0.1.40
+TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/liba/libapt-pkg-perl/libapt-pkg-perl_${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=524d2ef77f3d6896c50e7674022d85e4a391a6a2b3c65ba5e50ac671fa7ce4a1
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="apt, perl"
@@ -25,5 +26,5 @@ termux_step_post_massage() {
 	local perl_version=$(. $TERMUX_SCRIPTDIR/packages/perl/build.sh; echo $TERMUX_PKG_VERSION)
 	mv $TERMUX_PKG_MASSAGEDIR/$TERMUX_PREFIX/lib/perl5/site_perl/$perl_version/${TERMUX_ARCH}-android/x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi/* \
 		$TERMUX_PKG_MASSAGEDIR/$TERMUX_PREFIX/lib/perl5/site_perl/$perl_version/${TERMUX_ARCH}-android/
-	rm -rf $TERMUX_PKG_MASSAGEDIR/$TERMUX_PREFIX/lib/perl5/site_perl/$perl_version/${TERMUX_ARCH}-android/x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
+	rmdir $TERMUX_PKG_MASSAGEDIR/$TERMUX_PREFIX/lib/perl5/site_perl/$perl_version/${TERMUX_ARCH}-android/x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
 }