diff --git a/meta-yocto/conf/distro/include/package_regex.inc b/meta-yocto/conf/distro/include/package_regex.inc
index 43b5518120..510f3f9ad3 100644
--- a/meta-yocto/conf/distro/include/package_regex.inc
+++ b/meta-yocto/conf/distro/include/package_regex.inc
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ REGEX_pn-glew  = " [hH][rR][eE][fF]=\"/projects/glew/files/glew/(?P<pver>((\d+[\
 REGEX_URI_pn-hdparm = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/hdparm/files/hdparm/"
 REGEX_pn-hdparm = "[hH][rR][eE][fF]=\"http://sourceforge.net/projects/hdparm/files/hdparm/hdparm-(?P<pver>((\d+[\.\-_]*)+)).tar.gz/download\""
 REGEX_URI_pn-icu = "http://site.icu-project.org/download"
-REGEX_pn-icu = "[hH][rR][eE][fF]=\"http://site.icu-project.org/download/((\d+[\.\-_]*)+)#(TOC\-)?ICU4J\-Download\" rel=\"nofollow\">(<b>)?(?P<pver>((\d+[\.\-_]*)+))(</b>)?"
+REGEX_pn-icu = "[hH][rR][eE][fF]=\"http://site.icu-project.org/download/((\d+[\.\-_]*)+)#(TOC\-)?ICU4C\-Download\" rel=\"nofollow\">(<b>)?(?P<pver>((\d+[\.\-_]*)+))(</b>)?"
 REGEX_URI_pn-irda-utils = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/irda/files/irda-utils/"
 REGEX_pn-irda-utils = "[hH][rR][eE][fF]=\"/projects/irda/files/irda-utils/(?P<pver>((\d+[\.\-_]*)+))/\""
 REGEX_URI_pn-jpeg = "http://www.ijg.org/files/"
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ REGEX_pn-setserial = "[hH][rR][eE][fF]=\"/projects/setserial/files/setserial/(?P
 REGEX_pn-shared-mime-info = "[hH][rR][eE][fF]=\"shared\-mime\-info\-(?P<pver>((\d+[\.\-_]*)+))\.tar\.(bz2|gz|xz)\""
 REGEX_pn-shared-mime-info-native = "[hH][rR][eE][fF]=\"shared\-mime\-info\-(?P<pver>((\d+[\.\-_]*)+))\.tar\.(bz2|gz|xz)\""
 REGEX_URI_pn-socat = "http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download/"
-REGEX_pn-socat = "[hH][rR][eE][fF]=\"socat\-(?P<pver>(([a-zA-Z]?\d+[\.\-]*)+))\.tar\.bz2\""
+REGEX_pn-socat = "[hH][rR][eE][fF]=\"socat\-(?P<pver>((\d+[\.\-]*)+))\.tar\.bz2\""
 REGEX_URI_pn-speex = "http://downloads.us.xiph.org/releases/speex/"
 REGEX_pn-speex = "[hH][rR][eE][fF]=\"speex\-(?P<pver>((\d+\.*)+))\.tar\.gz\""
 REGEX_URI_pn-sqlite3 = "http://www.sqlite.org/download.html"