diff --git a/tools/build/gnome-shell.modules b/tools/build/gnome-shell.modules
index a8104e8c0..0f65719ec 100644
--- a/tools/build/gnome-shell.modules
+++ b/tools/build/gnome-shell.modules
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@
     </suggests>
   </tarball>
 
-  <tarball autogenargs="--enable-introspection=no" id="upower" version="0.9.8">
+  <tarball id="upower" version="0.9.8">
     <source href="http://upower.freedesktop.org/releases/upower-0.9.8.tar.bz2"
             hash="sha256:7afaec3cb10ebbc898308c7abd250c27fd58e10379a42e80444d7a4b32f2eb91"
             size="462754"/>