diff --git a/package/ltrace/ltrace.mk b/package/ltrace/ltrace.mk
index b71215e43b..2eb60fe450 100644
--- a/package/ltrace/ltrace.mk
+++ b/package/ltrace/ltrace.mk
@@ -5,7 +5,14 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 LTRACE_VERSION = c22d359433b333937ee3d803450dc41998115685
-LTRACE_SITE = git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/ltrace.git
+#LTRACE_SITE = git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/ltrace.git
+
+# Upstream is dead: the git reporistory for ltrace did not follow during the
+# migration from alioth to gitlab, and there is no longer any official
+# upstream repository with the expected sha1, except for the tarball cached on
+# s.b.o., so we go fetch it there.
+LTRACE_SITE = http://sources.buildroot.org/ltrace
+
 LTRACE_DEPENDENCIES = elfutils
 LTRACE_CONF_OPTS = --disable-werror
 LTRACE_LICENSE = GPL-2.0