diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/shared-mime-info/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/shared-mime-info/package.py
index 72ec9447bed..e19a5cded12 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/shared-mime-info/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/shared-mime-info/package.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ class SharedMimeInfo(AutotoolsPackage):
     """Database of common MIME types."""
 
     homepage = "https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info"
-    url = "http://freedesktop.org/~hadess/shared-mime-info-1.8.tar.xz"
+    url = "https://people.freedesktop.org/~hadess/shared-mime-info-1.8.tar.xz"
 
     license("GPL-2.0-or-later")