diff --git a/graphics/p5-GraphViz-Data-Structure/Makefile b/graphics/p5-GraphViz-Data-Structure/Makefile
index 3c9969c691b7..f7eaa5767c33 100644
--- a/graphics/p5-GraphViz-Data-Structure/Makefile
+++ b/graphics/p5-GraphViz-Data-Structure/Makefile
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 #
 
 PORTNAME=	GraphViz-Data-Structure
-PORTVERSION=	0.16
+PORTVERSION=	0.17
 CATEGORIES=	graphics perl5
 MASTER_SITES=	CPAN
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	p5-
diff --git a/graphics/p5-GraphViz-Data-Structure/distinfo b/graphics/p5-GraphViz-Data-Structure/distinfo
index 231784f8c783..073699477fb5 100644
--- a/graphics/p5-GraphViz-Data-Structure/distinfo
+++ b/graphics/p5-GraphViz-Data-Structure/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-MD5 (GraphViz-Data-Structure-0.16.tar.gz) = 8d650ad22f1f80ae576f96eaeaae3ff0
-SHA256 (GraphViz-Data-Structure-0.16.tar.gz) = 04bbae1a510de312c228a7e6be092a0cb5234872c30a4511e1ffcf443b4a5c93
-SIZE (GraphViz-Data-Structure-0.16.tar.gz) = 41415
+MD5 (GraphViz-Data-Structure-0.17.tar.gz) = 8ba386e9052d3592c92b953742e18438
+SHA256 (GraphViz-Data-Structure-0.17.tar.gz) = d7714c42c81cc88a0eb997da0f323508771d5fef27ac2d8c1dd517ab541c9bcc
+SIZE (GraphViz-Data-Structure-0.17.tar.gz) = 41699
diff --git a/graphics/p5-GraphViz-Data-Structure/files/patch-Makefile.PL b/graphics/p5-GraphViz-Data-Structure/files/patch-Makefile.PL
deleted file mode 100644
index 24110458712c..000000000000
--- a/graphics/p5-GraphViz-Data-Structure/files/patch-Makefile.PL
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- Makefile.PL.orig	Thu Jul 12 04:44:56 2007
-+++ Makefile.PL	Wed Jul 25 09:46:28 2007
-@@ -2,17 +2,6 @@
- use 5.008;
- # See lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm for details of how to influence
- # the contents of the Makefile that is written.
--my $dot_version = `dot -V 2>&1`;
--
--if (!$dot_version) {
--  die "You must install the graphviz package (http://www.graphviz.org) before using this module.\n";
--}
--else {
--  my (@v) = ($dot_version =~ /dot (?:- Graphviz )?version (\d+)\.(\d+) /);
--  if ( $v[0] < 2 || $v[1] < 2 ) {
--    die "You must have at least version 2.2 of dot to use this module (found $v[0].$v[1])";
--  }
--}
- 
- WriteMakefile(
-     NAME         => 'GraphViz::Data::Structure',