diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/indent/2.2.9.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/indent/2.2.9.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index df5aab7a3133..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/indent/2.2.9.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-args : with args;
-	let bd = builderDefs; in
-	let localDefs = builderDefs.passthru.function {
-		src = /* put a fetchurl here */
-		fetchurl {
-			url = ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/indent/indent-2.2.9.tar.gz;
-			sha256 = "0rp4divzv5xyflm8ixpp2isa092n0nmhgmhvz56db7k3lnyqg4qb";
-		};
-
-		buildInputs = [];
-		configureFlags = [];
-		preBuild = bd.stringsWithDeps.fullDepEntry ("
-			sed -e '/extern FILE [*]output/i#ifndef OUTPUT_DEFINED_ELSEWHERE' -i src/indent.h
-			sed -e '/extern FILE [*]output/a#endif' -i src/indent.h
-			sed -e '1i#define OUTPUT_DEFINED_ELSEWHERE 1' -i src/output.c
-		") ["minInit" "doUnpack"];
-	};
-	in with localDefs;
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-	name = "indent";
-	builder = writeScript (name + "-builder")
-		(textClosure localDefs ["doConfigure" "preBuild" "doMakeInstall" "doForceShare" "doPropagate"]);
-	meta = {
-		description = "GNU Indent - a source text formatter";
-		inherit src;
-	};
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/indent/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/indent/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..00ff11c3c880
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/indent/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "indent-2.2.10";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/indent/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0f9655vqdvfwbxvs1gpa7py8k1z71aqh8hp73f65vazwbfz436wa";
+  };
+
+  preBuild =
+    ''
+      sed -e '/extern FILE [*]output/i#ifndef OUTPUT_DEFINED_ELSEWHERE' -i src/indent.h
+      sed -e '/extern FILE [*]output/a#endif' -i src/indent.h
+      sed -e '1i#define OUTPUT_DEFINED_ELSEWHERE 1' -i src/output.c
+    '';
+    
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/indent/;
+    description = "A source code reformatter";
+    license = "GPLv3+";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 9230ed10e634..8fc43f7e4e06 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2826,8 +2826,8 @@ let
     inherit (perlPackages) XMLSimple;
   };
 
-  indent = composedArgsAndFun (selectVersion ../development/tools/misc/indent "2.2.9") {
-    inherit fetchurl stdenv builderDefs;
+  indent = import ../development/tools/misc/indent {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv;
   };
 
   jikespg = import ../development/tools/parsing/jikespg {