diff --git a/biology/p5-Bio-Variation/Makefile b/biology/p5-Bio-Variation/Makefile
index 3153678f048d..bcec1317a0e9 100644
--- a/biology/p5-Bio-Variation/Makefile
+++ b/biology/p5-Bio-Variation/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # $FreeBSD$
 
 PORTNAME=	Bio-Variation
-PORTVERSION=	1.7.4
+PORTVERSION=	1.7.5
 CATEGORIES=	biology perl5
 MASTER_SITES=	CPAN
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	p5-
@@ -15,9 +15,7 @@ LICENSE_COMB=	dual
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${RUN_DEPENDS}
-RUN_DEPENDS=	p5-Bio-DB-EMBL>=0:biology/p5-Bio-DB-EMBL \
-		p5-Bio-DB-NCBIHelper>=0:biology/p5-Bio-DB-NCBIHelper \
-		p5-BioPerl>=0:biology/p5-BioPerl \
+RUN_DEPENDS=	p5-BioPerl>=0:biology/p5-BioPerl \
 		p5-IO-String>=0:devel/p5-IO-String \
 		p5-XML-Twig>=0:textproc/p5-XML-Twig \
 		p5-XML-Writer>=0.400:textproc/p5-XML-Writer
diff --git a/biology/p5-Bio-Variation/distinfo b/biology/p5-Bio-Variation/distinfo
index 63fc33fccc3d..b71a51c5c19b 100644
--- a/biology/p5-Bio-Variation/distinfo
+++ b/biology/p5-Bio-Variation/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1575793787
-SHA256 (Bio-Variation-1.7.4.tar.gz) = b5dc609c5bbd39937cdce0e5cbf299a2e2cf30c235fe6f71c904ae7dc1697b56
-SIZE (Bio-Variation-1.7.4.tar.gz) = 60449
+TIMESTAMP = 1578501169
+SHA256 (Bio-Variation-1.7.5.tar.gz) = 4bffdd060b5e793919f700e46056eb3f0195ed4df2e60ad68b383c31e51f824f
+SIZE (Bio-Variation-1.7.5.tar.gz) = 60430
diff --git a/biology/p5-Bio-Variation/pkg-plist b/biology/p5-Bio-Variation/pkg-plist
index ab0d6f50e248..88c68f7621d3 100644
--- a/biology/p5-Bio-Variation/pkg-plist
+++ b/biology/p5-Bio-Variation/pkg-plist
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ bin/bp_flanks
 %%SITE_PERL%%/Bio/Variation/IO.pm
 %%SITE_PERL%%/Bio/Variation/IO/flat.pm
 %%SITE_PERL%%/Bio/Variation/IO/xml.pm
-%%SITE_PERL%%/Bio/Variation/README
 %%SITE_PERL%%/Bio/Variation/RNAChange.pm
 %%SITE_PERL%%/Bio/Variation/SNP.pm
 %%SITE_PERL%%/Bio/Variation/SeqDiff.pm