diff --git a/packages/picocom/build.sh b/packages/picocom/build.sh
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+TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://github.com/npat-efault/picocom
+TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="A minimal dumb-terminal emulation program"
+# "BSD 2-Clause" applies to bundled Linenoise library
+TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-2.0, BSD 2-Clause"
+TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE_FILE="LICENSE.txt, linenoise-1.0/LICENSE"
+TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
+_COMMIT=1acf1ddabaf3576b4023c4f6f09c5a3e4b086fb8
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2018.04.12
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/npat-efault/picocom.git
+TERMUX_PKG_GIT_BRANCH=master
+TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=true
+
+termux_step_post_get_source() {
+	git fetch --unshallow
+	git checkout $_COMMIT
+
+	local version="$(git log -1 --format=%cs | sed 's/-/./g')"
+	if [ "$version" != "$TERMUX_PKG_VERSION" ]; then
+		echo -n "ERROR: The specified version \"$TERMUX_PKG_VERSION\""
+		echo " is different from what is expected to be: \"$version\""
+		return 1
+	fi
+}
+
+termux_step_make_install() {
+	install -Dm700 -t $TERMUX_PREFIX/bin pcasc pc{x,y,z}m picocom
+	install -Dm600 -t $TERMUX_PREFIX/share/man/man1 picocom.1
+}