diff --git a/package/rtorrent/Config.in b/package/rtorrent/Config.in
index 77ab595b9e..0583152824 100644
--- a/package/rtorrent/Config.in
+++ b/package/rtorrent/Config.in
@@ -6,14 +6,13 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_RTORRENT
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # fork()
 	depends on BR2_ARCH_HAS_ATOMICS # libtorrent
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBCURL
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBSIGC
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBTORRENT
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_NCURSES
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL
 	help
 	  BitTorrent Client using libtorrent
 
-	  http://rtorrent.net/downloads/
+	  https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent
 
 comment "rtorrent needs a toolchain w/ C++, threads, wchar"
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
diff --git a/package/rtorrent/rtorrent.mk b/package/rtorrent/rtorrent.mk
index bedf4047b4..edde02ee4b 100644
--- a/package/rtorrent/rtorrent.mk
+++ b/package/rtorrent/rtorrent.mk
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 RTORRENT_VERSION = 0.9.6
 RTORRENT_SITE = http://rtorrent.net/downloads
-RTORRENT_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf libcurl libsigc libtorrent ncurses
+RTORRENT_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf libcurl libtorrent ncurses
 RTORRENT_AUTORECONF = YES
 RTORRENT_LICENSE = GPLv2
 RTORRENT_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING