diff --git a/python/python-dateutil/python-dateutil.SlackBuild b/python/python-dateutil/python-dateutil.SlackBuild
index f38d57e088..29833449ff 100644
--- a/python/python-dateutil/python-dateutil.SlackBuild
+++ b/python/python-dateutil/python-dateutil.SlackBuild
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=python-dateutil
-VERSION=${VERSION:-2.4.1}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-2.4.2}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
 cd $TMP
 rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
-tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.bz2
+tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz
 cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
 find -L . \
@@ -57,8 +57,7 @@ find -L . \
 
 # Fix end-of-line encoding.
 for i in NEWS PKG-INFO python_dateutil.egg-info/{zip-safe,PKG-INFO}; do
-  cp $i ${i}.new
-  sed -i 's/\r//' ${i}.new
+  sed -e 's/\r//' $i > ${i}.new
   touch -r $i ${i}.new
   mv ${i}.new $i
 done
diff --git a/python/python-dateutil/python-dateutil.info b/python/python-dateutil/python-dateutil.info
index 4c1257f928..fd8520193f 100644
--- a/python/python-dateutil/python-dateutil.info
+++ b/python/python-dateutil/python-dateutil.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="python-dateutil"
-VERSION="2.4.1"
+VERSION="2.4.2"
 HOMEPAGE="http://labix.org/python-dateutil"
-DOWNLOAD="http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/python-dateutil/python-dateutil-2.4.1.tar.bz2"
-MD5SUM="6603c54f37cace901157e2ec2443e96b"
+DOWNLOAD="http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/python-dateutil/python-dateutil-2.4.2.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="4ef68e1c485b09e9f034e10473e5add2"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="pysetuptools six"