bug#44105: closed (The included file "help2man" is too old)

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Your message dated Sun, 25 Oct 2020 13:33:20 +0000
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and subject line Re: bug#44105: The included file "help2man" is too old; 
correction
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #44105,
regarding The included file "help2man" is too old
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> The included file "help2man" is too old
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> Tue, 20 Oct 2020 21:35:29 +0000
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>   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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> Re: bug#44105: The included file "help2man" is too old; correction
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> 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.
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> > >    This was ment to go to "bug-coreutils..."!
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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).
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> Pushed the resync at:
> https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=f803c0e92
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> I confirmed this doesn't change the man pages produced.
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> thanks,
> Pádraig
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