diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
index b705860be925..168a7fa8291d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
@@ -7423,24 +7423,21 @@ let self = _self // overrides; _self = with self; {
   };
 
   InlineC = buildPerlPackage rec {
-    name = "Inline-C-0.76";
-
+    name = "Inline-C-0.78";
     src = fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/I/IN/INGY/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "0dcs39zjiglif3ss8p8yl0jyqk7qvc9g1ad9wi4kq79k9lxp3s92";
+      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/T/TI/TINITA/${name}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "9a7804d85c01a386073d2176582b0262b6374c5c0341049da3ef84c6f53efbc7";
     };
-
+    buildInputs = [ FileCopyRecursive FileShareDirInstall TestWarn YAMLLibYAML ];
+    propagatedBuildInputs = [ Inline ParseRecDescent Pegex ];
     postPatch = ''
       # this test will fail with chroot builds
       rm -f t/08taint.t
       rm -f t/28autowrap.t
     '';
-
-    buildInputs = [ TestWarn FileCopyRecursive FileShareDirInstall IOAll Pegex YAMLLibYAML ];
-    propagatedBuildInputs = [ Inline ];
-
     meta = {
-      description = "Write Perl Subroutines in C";
+      homepage = https://github.com/ingydotnet/inline-c-pm;
+      description = "C Language Support for Inline";
       license = with stdenv.lib.licenses; [ artistic1 gpl1Plus ];
     };
   };