diff --git a/helpers/make-expat b/helpers/make-expat
index b5304d1..711f534 100644
--- a/helpers/make-expat
+++ b/helpers/make-expat
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 # such packages from Debian in order to build the required udeb packages.
 ##
 
-VERSION=4
+VERSION=5
 NETINST=true
 . ./config