diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gnupg/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gnupg/package.py
index b05f468dee31a03473ef225a149a9beaa144f60e..255b9e0b4b463a6ea01702657a2f3350f0df0ab1 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gnupg/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gnupg/package.py
@@ -11,24 +11,34 @@ class Gnupg(AutotoolsPackage):
        standard as defined by RFC4880 """
 
     homepage = "https://gnupg.org/index.html"
-    url = "https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.2.3.tar.bz2"
+    url      = "https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.2.17.tar.bz2"
 
+    version('2.2.17', sha256='afa262868e39b651a2db4c071fba90415154243e83a830ca00516f9a807fd514')
     version('2.2.15', sha256='cb8ce298d7b36558ffc48aec961b14c830ff1783eef7a623411188b5e0f5d454')
-    version('2.2.3', sha256='cbd37105d139f7aa74f92b6f65d136658682094b0e308666b820ae4b984084b4')
+    version('2.2.3',  sha256='cbd37105d139f7aa74f92b6f65d136658682094b0e308666b820ae4b984084b4')
     version('2.1.21', sha256='7aead8a8ba75b69866f583b6c747d91414d523bfdfbe9a8e0fe026b16ba427dd')
 
-    depends_on('libgcrypt')
+    depends_on('libgcrypt@1.7.0:')
     depends_on('libassuan@2.4:', when='@:2.2.3')
     depends_on('libassuan@2.5:', when='@2.2.15:')
-    depends_on('libksba')
-    depends_on('libgpg-error')
-    depends_on('npth')
+    depends_on('libksba@1.3.4:')
+    depends_on('libgpg-error@1.24:')
+    depends_on('npth@1.2:')
+    depends_on('zlib')
+    depends_on('libiconv')
 
     def configure_args(self):
-        args = ['--with-npth-prefix=%s' % self.spec['npth'].prefix,
-                '--with-libgcrypt-prefix=%s' % self.spec['libgcrypt'].prefix,
-                '--with-libksba-prefixx=%s' % self.spec['libksba'].prefix,
-                '--with-libassuan-prefix=%s' % self.spec['libassuan'].prefix,
-                '--with-libpgp-error-prefix=%s' %
-                self.spec['libgpg-error'].prefix]
-        return args
+        return [
+            '--without-tar',
+            '--with-libgpg-error-prefix=' + self.spec['libgpg-error'].prefix,
+            '--with-libgcrypt-prefix='    + self.spec['libgcrypt'].prefix,
+            '--with-libassuan-prefix='    + self.spec['libassuan'].prefix,
+            '--with-ksba-prefix='         + self.spec['libksba'].prefix,
+            '--with-npth-prefix='         + self.spec['npth'].prefix,
+            '--without-ldap',
+            '--with-libiconv-prefix='     + self.spec['libiconv'].prefix,
+            '--without-regex',
+            '--with-zlib='                + self.spec['zlib'].prefix,
+            '--without-bzip2',
+            '--without-readline',
+        ]