diff --git a/contrib/snap/snapcraft-stable.yaml b/contrib/snap/snapcraft-stable.yaml
index 56c10eca3..b83cde0ec 100644
--- a/contrib/snap/snapcraft-stable.yaml
+++ b/contrib/snap/snapcraft-stable.yaml
@@ -60,7 +60,9 @@ parts:
       - -lib/*.a
   libfwup-dev:
     plugin: make
-    source: https://github.com/rhboot/fwupdate/releases/download/11/fwupdate-11.tar.bz2
+    #fwupdate 11 FTBFS: see https://github.com/rhboot/fwupdate/pull/113
+    source: https://github.com/rhboot/fwupdate.git
+    source-type: git
     make-parameters:
       - EFIDIR=ubuntu
       - GNUEFIDIR=/usr/lib