diff --git a/games/an/an.SlackBuild b/games/an/an.SlackBuild
index 54e81423b5..f41e6ff2cb 100644
--- a/games/an/an.SlackBuild
+++ b/games/an/an.SlackBuild
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
 
 # Licensed under the WTFPL. See http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/copying/ for details.
 
+# 20230707 bkw: For some reason, the Debian source switched from .xz
+# to .gz compressions. Contents of the archive are identical, not
+# bumping BUILD.
+
 # 20160804 bkw: Updated to 1.2. Apparently 1.2 is a release by the
 # maintainer(s) of the Debian an package, not the original author...
 # but the old 0.95 was segfaulting when built with gcc5. Also, the
@@ -38,16 +42,12 @@ OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}
 
 if [ "$ARCH" = "i586" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686"
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
 elif [ "$ARCH" = "i686" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=i686"
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
 elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC"
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
 else
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2"
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
 fi
 
 set -e
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG/usr/{games,man/man6} $OUTPUT
 cd $TMP
 rm -rf ${PRGNAM}-${SRCVER}
-tar xvf $CWD/${PRGNAM}_$TARVER.orig.tar.xz
+tar xvf $CWD/${PRGNAM}_$TARVER.orig.tar.gz
 cd ${PRGNAM}-$SRCVER
 chown -R root:root .
 find -L .  -perm /111 -a \! -perm 755 -a -exec chmod 755 {} \+ -o \
diff --git a/games/an/an.info b/games/an/an.info
index c26074f444..45115a59c5 100644
--- a/games/an/an.info
+++ b/games/an/an.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="an"
 VERSION="1.2"
 HOMEPAGE="https://packages.debian.org/sid/an"
-DOWNLOAD="https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/an/an_1.2.orig.tar.xz"
-MD5SUM="1f3465bfe2cc4458f75a7a42037b475c"
+DOWNLOAD="https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/an/an_1.2.orig.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="5d28b8003a745f0110ed70f0cd4aa051"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""