diff --git a/srcpkgs/geany/template b/srcpkgs/geany/template
index 55077d92f20..e4237a15abb 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/geany/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/geany/template
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 # Template file for 'geany'
 pkgname=geany
 version=1.23
-revision=1
+revision=2
 build_style=waf
-makedepends="pkg-config intltool python gtk+-devel vte-devel"
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config intltool python"
+makedepends="gtk+-devel vte-devel"
 depends="hicolor-icon-theme desktop-file-utils"
 short_desc="Fast and lightweight IDE"
 maintainer="davehome <davehome@redthumb.info.tm>"
@@ -11,11 +12,6 @@ license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://www.geany.org"
 distfiles="http://download.${pkgname}.org/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.bz2"
 checksum=cdd4a772694803c837ae59e56f7bdc2faba174509317211f522e7d25dfcbe8b0
-long_desc="
- Geany is a text editor using the GTK2 toolkit with basic features of an
- integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and
- fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. It supports
- many filetypes and has some nice features."
 
 geany-plugins_package() {
 	depends="geany>=$version"