diff --git a/dev-perl/mecab-perl/mecab-perl-0.996.ebuild b/dev-perl/mecab-perl/mecab-perl-0.996.ebuild
index c962e54c7cdd1..379e10184b51c 100644
--- a/dev-perl/mecab-perl/mecab-perl-0.996.ebuild
+++ b/dev-perl/mecab-perl/mecab-perl-0.996.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=5
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ inherit perl-module
 
 DESCRIPTION="Perl binding for MeCab"
 # HOMEPAGE="http://mecab.sourceforge.net/" dead project, no homepage found anymore
-SRC_URI="http://dev.gentoo.org/~dilfridge/distfiles/${P}.tar.gz"
+SRC_URI="https://dev.gentoo.org/~dilfridge/distfiles/${P}.tar.gz"
 
 LICENSE="|| ( BSD LGPL-2.1 GPL-2 )"
 SLOT="0"