diff --git a/srcpkgs/opam/template b/srcpkgs/opam/template
index 885abe0e9aa3a8..3dc830cc586bec 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/opam/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/opam/template
@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
 # Template file for 'opam'
 pkgname=opam
-version=2.5.1
+version=2.5.2
 revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--docdir=/usr/share/doc/${pkgname} --with-vendored-deps --with-mccs"
 make_build_args="all"
 make_check_target="tests"
+makedepends="curses-devel ocaml"
 depends="bubblewrap curl unzip tar"
-makedepends="${depends} ncurses-devel ocaml ocaml-findlib"
 checkdepends="${depends} git rsync"
 short_desc="OCaml package manager"
 maintainer="Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>"
 license="LGPL-2.1-only WITH OCaml-LGPL-linking-exception"
 homepage="https://opam.ocaml.org/"
 distfiles="https://github.com/ocaml/opam/releases/download/${version}/opam-full-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=48c5bfaf5f5c4048cc5f40025de7385f5bad3a8269756216cd6dd2f2150033ed
+checksum=b3623809567f19ed6b5d679b8c7bbc0bdec9418bff4a875ff0799d446d8555c3
 nocross=yes
 disable_parallel_build=yes
 make_check=ci-skip # uses bwrap