diff --git a/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-sax-writer-perl_0.57.bb b/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-sax-writer-perl_0.57.bb
index 487a5c22cd..c3dee2bcbb 100644
--- a/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-sax-writer-perl_0.57.bb
+++ b/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libxml/libxml-sax-writer-perl_0.57.bb
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ DEPENDS += "libxml-filter-buffertext-perl-native"
 RDEPENDS:${PN} += "libxml-filter-buffertext-perl"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/P/PE/PERIGRIN/XML-SAX-Writer-${PV}.tar.gz"
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "3e3023c648e3003c04de2fb04435f8bd"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "3d61d07ef43b0126f5b4de4f415a256fa859fa88dc4fdabaad70b7be7c682cf0"
 
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README;beginline=45;endline=46;md5=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e"