diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/md/mdbtools/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/md/mdbtools/package.nix
index 381245fef2c7..9a581078b72a 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/md/mdbtools/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/md/mdbtools/package.nix
@@ -10,17 +10,20 @@
   autoreconfHook,
   txt2man,
   which,
+  gettext,
+  nix-update-script,
+  versionCheckHook,
 }:
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "mdbtools";
   version = "1.0.1";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "mdbtools";
     repo = "mdbtools";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "sha256-XWkFgQZKx9/pjVNEqfp9BwgR7w3fVxQ/bkJEYUvCXPs=";
+    tag = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
+    hash = "sha256-XWkFgQZKx9/pjVNEqfp9BwgR7w3fVxQ/bkJEYUvCXPs=";
   };
 
   configureFlags = [ "--disable-scrollkeeper" ];
@@ -41,16 +44,27 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     readline
   ];
 
+  postUnpack = ''
+    cp -v ${gettext}/share/gettext/m4/lib-{link,prefix,ld}.m4 source/m4
+  '';
+
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-  meta = with lib; {
+  doInstallCheck = true;
+  nativeInstallCheckInputs = [ versionCheckHook ];
+  versionCheckProgram = "${placeholder "out"}/bin/mdb-ver";
+  versionCheckProgramArg = "--version";
+
+  passthru.updateScript = nix-update-script { };
+
+  meta = {
+    changelog = "https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools/releases/tag/v${finalAttrs.version}";
     description = ".mdb (MS Access) format tools";
-    license = with licenses; [
+    homepage = "https://mdbtools.github.io/";
+    license = with lib.licenses; [
       gpl2Plus
       lgpl2
     ];
-    maintainers = [ ];
-    platforms = platforms.unix;
-    inherit (src.meta) homepage;
+    platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
   };
-}
+})