diff --git a/pkgs/misc/cups/drivers/splix/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/cups/drivers/splix/default.nix
index 532ef2a45d5d..9a924e044d7f 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/cups/drivers/splix/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/cups/drivers/splix/default.nix
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, cups, zlib}:
-
+{ stdenv, fetchsvn, fetchurl, cups, zlib }:
+let rev = "315"; in
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "splix-2.0.0";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://sourceforge/splix/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "0bwivrwwvh6hzvnycpzqs7a0capgycahc4s3v9ihx552fgy07xwp";
+  name = "splix-svn-${rev}";
+  src = fetchsvn {
+    # We build this from svn, because splix hasn't been in released in several years
+    # although the community has been adding some new printer models.
+    url = "svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/splix/code/splix";
+    rev = "r${rev}";
+    sha256 = "16wbm4xnz35ca3mw2iggf5f4jaxpyna718ia190ka6y4ah932jxl";
   };
 
-  patches = [ ./splix-2.0.0-gcc45.patch ];
-
-  preBuild=''
+  preBuild = ''
     makeFlags="V=1 DISABLE_JBIG=1 CUPSFILTER=$out/lib/cups/filter CUPSPPD=$out/share/cups/model"
   '';
 
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/cups/drivers/splix/splix-2.0.0-gcc45.patch b/pkgs/misc/cups/drivers/splix/splix-2.0.0-gcc45.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 5ccdcb2514c5..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/misc/cups/drivers/splix/splix-2.0.0-gcc45.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-Fixing build with gcc 4.5
-
-http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318581
-
-downloaded from
-http://gentoo-overlays.zugaina.org/gentoo/portage/net-print/splix/files/splix-2.0.0-gcc45.patch
-
---- splix-old/src/ppdfile.cpp
-+++ splix-new/src/ppdfile.cpp
-@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@
-  * Opérateur d'assignation
-  * Assignment operator
-  */
--void PPDFile::Value::operator = (const PPDFile::Value::Value &val)
-+void PPDFile::Value::operator = (const PPDFile::Value &val)
- {
-     if (_preformatted)
-         delete[] _preformatted;