diff --git a/meta/packages/libassuan/libassuan_0.6.9.bb b/meta/packages/libassuan/libassuan_0.6.9.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index 37ab1564ca..0000000000
--- a/meta/packages/libassuan/libassuan_0.6.9.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-LICENSE = "GPL"
-
-SRC_URI = "ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/libassuan/libassuan-${PV}.tar.gz"
-
-inherit autotools binconfig
diff --git a/meta/packages/libassuan/libassuan_2.0.0.bb b/meta/packages/libassuan/libassuan_2.0.0.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..11934013ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/packages/libassuan/libassuan_2.0.0.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+DESCRIPTION = "IPC library used by GnuPG and GPGME"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnupg.org/related_software/libassuan/"
+BUGTRACKER = "https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/index"
+
+LICENSE = "GPLv3 & LGPLv2.1+"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=f27defe1e96c2e1ecd4e0c9be8967949 \
+                    file://COPYING.LIB;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1 \
+                    file://src/assuan.h;endline=20;md5=8a6f091b9d114f0e06aa91cb3460154c \
+                    file://src/assuan-defs.h;endline=20;md5=c51ca5e56b000d79d500eee7cd8dc2e5"
+
+DEPENDS = "libgpg-error"
+
+SRC_URI = "ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libassuan/libassuan-${PV}.tar.bz2"
+
+inherit autotools binconfig