diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/p7zip/p7zip_16.02.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/p7zip/p7zip_16.02.bb
index e795482eb6..498623cc83 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/p7zip/p7zip_16.02.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/p7zip/p7zip_16.02.bb
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ SRC_URI = "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/p7zip/p7zip/${PV}/p7zip_${PV}_src_al
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "a0128d661cfe7cc8c121e73519c54fbf"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "5eb20ac0e2944f6cb9c2d51dd6c4518941c185347d4089ea89087ffdd6e2341f"
 
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/p7zip"
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+)"
+
 S = "${WORKDIR}/${BPN}_${PV}"
 
 do_compile:append() {