diff --git a/package/automake/automake.hash b/package/automake/automake.hash
index 9ff55a4bae..b194c3c2bc 100644
--- a/package/automake/automake.hash
+++ b/package/automake/automake.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256 5d05bb38a23fd3312b10aea93840feec685bdf4a41146e78882848165d3ae921  automake-1.16.1.tar.xz
+sha256 af6ba39142220687c500f79b4aa2f181d9b24e4f8d8ec497cea4ba26c64bedaf  automake-1.15.1.tar.xz
 # License files, locally calculated
 sha256 ab15fd526bd8dd18a9e77ebc139656bf4d33e97fc7238cd11bf60e2b9b8666c6  COPYING
diff --git a/package/automake/automake.mk b/package/automake/automake.mk
index 92e7d64666..270337712e 100644
--- a/package/automake/automake.mk
+++ b/package/automake/automake.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-AUTOMAKE_VERSION = 1.16.1
+AUTOMAKE_VERSION = 1.15.1
 AUTOMAKE_SOURCE = automake-$(AUTOMAKE_VERSION).tar.xz
 AUTOMAKE_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/automake
 AUTOMAKE_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+