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The included file "help2man" is too old

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To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44105: closed (The included file "help2man" is too old)
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 13:34:02 +0000

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From: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig <at> rhi.hi.is>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: The included file "help2man" is too old
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 21:35:29 +0000

  The included file "man/help2man" is version 1.47.3 from 2015, while the
current version is 1.47.16 from 2020.

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Bjarni I. Gislason

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Brendan O'Dea <bod <at> debian.org>, Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig <at> rhi.hi.is>
Cc: 44105-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44105: The included file "help2man" is too old; correction
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 13:33:20 +0000

On 21/10/2020 01:02, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 08:31, Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig <at> rhi.hi.is> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 04:46:05PM +0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
>>>    The included file "man/help2man" is version 1.47.3 from 2015,
>>> while the current version is 1.47.16 from 2020.
>>
>>    This was ment to go to "bug-coreutils..."!
> 
> coreutils does include a copy based on 1.47.3, with some minor changes
> to handle the way that online documentation and info pages are
> referenced in the generated manual page.
> 
> Note that minor releases (.3 vs .16 in this case) should only affect
> files outside of the help2man program such as updated translations, or
> Debian packaging.
> 
> For coreutils, which doesn't actually install help2man or use the
> translation feature, updating to the latest minor version won't
> actually change the contents of the script (other than having to
> re-apply the local changes).

Pushed the resync at:
https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=f803c0e92

I confirmed this doesn't change the man pages produced.

thanks,
Pádraig

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