diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/lbzip2/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/lbzip2/package.py
index 5174339313b..c8057e2ee69 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/lbzip2/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/lbzip2/package.py
@@ -9,7 +9,17 @@ class Lbzip2(AutotoolsPackage):
     """Multi-threaded compression utility with support for bzip2
     compressed file format"""
 
-    homepage = "https://lbzip2.org/"
-    url = "http://archive.lbzip2.org/lbzip2-2.5.tar.gz"
+    homepage = "https://github.com/kjn/lbzip2/"
+    url = "https://github.com/kjn/lbzip2/archive/refs/tags/v2.5.tar.gz"
 
-    version("2.5", sha256="46c75ee93cc95eedc6005625442b2b8e59a2bef3ba80987d0491f055185650e9")
+    depends_on("c", type="build")
+
+    depends_on("autoconf", type="build")
+    depends_on("automake", type="build")
+    depends_on("libtool", type="build")
+
+    version(
+        "2.5",
+        sha256="7be69ece83ecdc8f12b9201d838eee5cdb499f2fd68cffd2af58866076ccac43",
+        deprecated=True,
+    )