diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/strace/builder.sh b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/strace/builder.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 177e1958601e..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/strace/builder.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-source $stdenv/setup
-
-export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -D_LINUX_QUOTA_VERSION=1"
-
-genericBuild
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/strace/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/strace/default.nix
index dad179627a4a..06c3e5341e72 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/strace/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/strace/default.nix
@@ -1,13 +1,10 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "strace-4.5.14";
+  name = "strace-4.5.15";
 
-  builder = ./builder.sh;
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/strace-4.5.14.tar.bz2;
-    md5 = "09bcd5d00ece28f8154dec11cadfce3c";
+    url = http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/strace/strace-4.5.15.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "07n62yv53p2hsb59srfaxb0kk8b6p6iq77drmf65pq8jpa50s9ip";
   };
-
-  patches = [./fixes.patch];
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/strace/fixes.patch b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/strace/fixes.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 9213d3c0a100..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/strace/fixes.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-diff -rc strace-4.5.14-orig/strace.c strace-4.5.14/strace.c
-*** strace-4.5.14-orig/strace.c	2006-10-30 16:27:17.000000000 +0100
---- strace-4.5.14/strace.c	2006-10-30 16:27:27.000000000 +0100
-***************
-*** 2251,2257 ****
-  			if (!cflag
-  			    && (qual_flags[WSTOPSIG(status)] & QUAL_SIGNAL)) {
-  				unsigned long addr = 0, pc = 0;
-! #ifdef PT_GETSIGINFO
-  #				define PSR_RI	41
-  				struct siginfo si;
-  				unsigned long psr;
---- 2251,2257 ----
-  			if (!cflag
-  			    && (qual_flags[WSTOPSIG(status)] & QUAL_SIGNAL)) {
-  				unsigned long addr = 0, pc = 0;
-! #ifdef PT_CR_IPSR
-  #				define PSR_RI	41
-  				struct siginfo si;
-  				unsigned long psr;
-diff -rc strace-4.5.14-orig/system.c strace-4.5.14/system.c
-*** strace-4.5.14-orig/system.c	2006-01-12 22:21:06.000000000 +0100
---- strace-4.5.14/system.c	2006-10-30 16:31:46.000000000 +0100
-***************
-*** 1578,1584 ****
-  	{ CTL_KERN, "CTL_KERN" },
-  	{ CTL_VM, "CTL_VM" },
-  	{ CTL_NET, "CTL_NET" },
-- 	{ CTL_PROC, "CTL_PROC" },
-  	{ CTL_FS, "CTL_FS" },
-  	{ CTL_DEBUG, "CTL_DEBUG" },
-  	{ CTL_DEV, "CTL_DEV" },
---- 1578,1583 ----