bug#44105: The included file "help2man" is too old; correction

[Pádraig Brady]

On 21/10/2020 01:02, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 08:31, Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@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