diff --git a/packages/weechat/build.sh b/packages/weechat/build.sh
index 78d2e05b8..48f210513 100644
--- a/packages/weechat/build.sh
+++ b/packages/weechat/build.sh
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://weechat.org/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Fast, light and extensible IRC chat client"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-2.0"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.5
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.6
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://www.weechat.org/files/src/weechat-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.bz2
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=4c772c949c59949ff4156560c66900c5aaa9ab2da4439ee278b7c21b24daf191
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=0b06e551e69018dbd4828113a56a9657a16cb787eb44bc83adf45424e65759d9
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libiconv, ncurses, libgcrypt, libcurl, libgnutls, libandroid-support, zlib"
 TERMUX_PKG_BREAKS="weechat-dev"
 TERMUX_PKG_REPLACES="weechat-dev"
diff --git a/packages/weechat/cmake-FindPython.cmake.patch b/packages/weechat/cmake-FindPython.cmake.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0b91d4dff..000000000
--- a/packages/weechat/cmake-FindPython.cmake.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
-diff -u -r ../weechat-2.2/cmake/FindPython.cmake ./cmake/FindPython.cmake
---- ../weechat-2.2/cmake/FindPython.cmake	2018-07-14 10:35:10.000000000 +0000
-+++ ./cmake/FindPython.cmake	2018-07-15 16:16:57.903335529 +0000
-@@ -34,64 +34,11 @@
- endif()
- 
- if(ENABLE_PYTHON3)
--  find_program(PYTHON_EXECUTABLE
--    NAMES python3.7 python3.6 python3.5 python3.4 python3.3 python3.2 python3.1 python3.0 python3 python2.7 python2.6 python2.5 python
--    PATHS /usr/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/pkg/bin
--    )
--else()
--  find_program(PYTHON_EXECUTABLE
--    NAMES python2.7 python2.6 python2.5 python
--    PATHS /usr/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/pkg/bin
--    )
--endif()
--
--if(PYTHON_EXECUTABLE)
--  execute_process(
--    COMMAND ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} -c "import sys; from distutils.sysconfig import *; sys.stdout.write(get_config_var('INCLUDEPY'))"
--    OUTPUT_VARIABLE PYTHON_INC_DIR
--    )
--
--  execute_process(
--    COMMAND ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} -c "import sys; from distutils.sysconfig import *; sys.stdout.write(get_config_var('LIBPL'))"
--    OUTPUT_VARIABLE PYTHON_POSSIBLE_LIB_PATH
--    )
--
--  execute_process(
--    COMMAND ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} -c "import sys; from distutils.sysconfig import *; sys.stdout.write(get_config_var('LIBS') + ' ' + get_config_var('LINKFORSHARED'))"
--    OUTPUT_VARIABLE PYTHON_LFLAGS
--    )
--
--  find_path(PYTHON_INCLUDE_PATH
--    NAMES Python.h
--    HINTS ${PYTHON_INC_DIR}
--    )
--  if(ENABLE_PYTHON3)
--    find_library(PYTHON_LIBRARY
--      NAMES python3.7 python3.6 python3.5 python3.4 python3.3 python3.2 python3.1 python3.0 python3 python2.7 python2.6 python2.5 python
--      HINTS ${PYTHON_POSSIBLE_LIB_PATH}
--      )
--  else()
--    find_library(PYTHON_LIBRARY
--      NAMES python2.7 python2.6 python2.5 python
--      HINTS ${PYTHON_POSSIBLE_LIB_PATH}
--      )
--  endif()
--
--  if(PYTHON_LIBRARY AND PYTHON_INCLUDE_PATH)
--    execute_process(
--      COMMAND ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} -c "import sys; sys.stdout.write(sys.version[:3])"
--      OUTPUT_VARIABLE PYTHON_VERSION
--      )
--    execute_process(
--      COMMAND ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} -c "import sys; sys.stdout.write(str(sys.version_info < (2,5)))"
--      OUTPUT_VARIABLE PYTHON_OLD_VERSION
--      )
--    if(${PYTHON_OLD_VERSION} STREQUAL "True")
--      message("Python >= 2.5 is needed to build python plugin, version found: ${PYTHON_VERSION}")
--    else()
--      set(PYTHON_FOUND TRUE)
--    endif()
--  endif()
-+  set(PYTHON_EXECUTABLE "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/bin/python")
-+  set(PYTHON_INCLUDE_PATH "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/include/python3.7m")
-+  set(PYTHON_LIBRARY "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/lib")
-+  set(PYTHON_LFLAGS "-Xlinker -export-dynamic -lpython3.7m")
-+  set(PYTHON_FOUND TRUE)
- 
-   mark_as_advanced(
-     PYTHON_EXECUTABLE