There is a new pull request by ninewise against master on the void-packages repository https://github.com/ninewise/void-packages-1 update/alot-0.9.1 https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/21950 alot: update to 0.9.1 The patches are no longer required now. A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/21950.patch is attached