diff --git a/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/apt/apt.inc b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/apt/apt.inc
index 3248b9a..78ef5a7 100644
--- a/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/apt/apt.inc
+++ b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/apt/apt.inc
@@ -11,11 +11,16 @@
            file://nodoc.patch \
            file://disable-configure-in-makefile.patch \
            file://disable-test.patch \
+           file://0001-environment.mak-musl-based-systems-can-generate-shar.patch \
            "
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "6505c4297b338adb2087ce87bbc4a276"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "3fb1de9598363c416591d49e3c285458e095b035e6c06d5b944a54e15fc9b543"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.GPL;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3"
 
+# the package is taken from snapshots.debian.org; that source is static and goes stale
+# so we check the latest upstream from a directory that does get updated
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "${DEBIAN_MIRROR}/main/a/apt/"
+
 inherit autotools gettext
 
 EXTRA_AUTORECONF = "--exclude=autopoint,autoheader"
@@ -24,5 +29,3 @@
     rm -rf ${S}/buildlib/config.sub
     rm -rf ${S}/buildlib/config.guess
 }
-
-FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/apt/methods/.debug/"
diff --git a/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/apt/apt/0001-environment.mak-musl-based-systems-can-generate-shar.patch b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/apt/apt/0001-environment.mak-musl-based-systems-can-generate-shar.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..042372b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/apt/apt/0001-environment.mak-musl-based-systems-can-generate-shar.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+From 2f8aa21ace375c18977ed908b291c80a210a93c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
+Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 08:06:12 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] environment.mak: musl based systems can generate shared
+ objects too
+
+Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
+---
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+ buildlib/environment.mak.in | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/buildlib/environment.mak.in b/buildlib/environment.mak.in
+index b0a8d9d..3a52344 100644
+--- a/buildlib/environment.mak.in
++++ b/buildlib/environment.mak.in
+@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ NEED_SOCKLEN_T_DEFINE = @NEED_SOCKLEN_T_DEFINE@
+ 
+ # Shared library things
+ HOST_OS = @host_os@
+-ifneq ($(words $(filter gnu% linux-gnu% kfreebsd-gnu% %-gnu,$(HOST_OS))),0)
++ifneq ($(words $(filter gnu% linux-gnu% kfreebsd-gnu% %-gnu linux-musl%,$(HOST_OS))),0)
+    SONAME_MAGIC=-Wl,-soname -Wl,
+    LFLAGS_SO=
+ else
+-- 
+2.6.4
+
diff --git a/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/apt/apt_1.0.10.1.bb b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/apt/apt_1.0.10.1.bb
index bf77e2a..85c0d56 100644
--- a/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/apt/apt_1.0.10.1.bb
+++ b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/apt/apt_1.0.10.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DEPENDS = "curl db"
+DEPENDS = "curl db zlib"
 RDEPENDS_${PN} = "dpkg bash debianutils"
 require apt.inc
 
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "lzma"
 PACKAGECONFIG[lzma] = "ac_cv_lib_lzma_lzma_easy_encoder=yes,ac_cv_lib_lzma_lzma_easy_encoder=no,xz"
+PACKAGECONFIG[bz2] = "ac_cv_lib_bz2_BZ2_bzopen=yes,ac_cv_lib_bz2_BZ2_bzopen=no,bzip2"
 
 FILES_${PN} += "${bindir}/apt-key"
 apt-manpages += "doc/apt-key.8"