diff --git a/net-mail/courier-common/courier-common-3.1.5.ebuild b/net-mail/courier-common/courier-common-3.1.5.ebuild
index 0e17ec49337c3..5f9ff6e4198aa 100644
--- a/net-mail/courier-common/courier-common-3.1.5.ebuild
+++ b/net-mail/courier-common/courier-common-3.1.5.ebuild
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ DESCRIPTION="Mail delivery agent/filter"
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/"
 SRC_URI="https://downloads.sourceforge.net/courier/${MYP}.tar.bz2"
 
+S=${WORKDIR}/${MYP}
+
 LICENSE="GPL-3"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~mips ~ppc ppc64 ~s390 sparc x86"
@@ -26,8 +28,6 @@ DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
 
 REQUIRED_USE="|| ( berkdb gdbm )"
 
-S=${WORKDIR}/${MYP}
-
 PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-gentoo.patch )
 
 src_prepare() {