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misc/help2man 1.49.3_1

Automatically generating simple manual pages from program output

Port info

Maintainer
sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
Packages
latest: 1.49.3_1
Upstream
up to date
Last update
to 1.49.3_1 · 62ed195754
Quarterly
2026Q4: 1.49.3_1
WWW
https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/
Links
cgit · VuXML · Report wrong data

Install

Package
# pkg install help2man
installs 1.49.3_1 from latest; from quarterly (2026Q4) 1.49.3_1
Port
# cd /usr/ports/misc/help2man && make install clean
# make -C /usr/ports/misc/help2man config  # change options first
Size
175 KiB download · 564 KiB installed
Depends on
devel/gettext-runtime 1.0_1, devel/p5-Locale-gettext 1.07, lang/perl5.42 5.42.3, print/indexinfo 0.3.1_1
License
GPLv3
Options
1 of 1 on in the package: NLS

Packages by version and architecture

latest

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 161.49.3_11.49.3_1–
FreeBSD 151.49.3_11.49.3_1–
FreeBSD 141.49.3_11.49.3_11.49.3_1

quarterly (2026Q4)

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 151.49.3_11.49.3_1–
FreeBSD 141.49.3_11.49.3_11.49.3_1

version as in the ports tree (latest) or the most common one (quarterly) · different version · ✗ not built · – no packages for this platform. Package sets that have not been rebuilt for 60 days are left out.

Unaddressed and VuXML only (0)

No unaddressed CVE and nothing reported by pkg audit for the packaged version 1.49.3_1.

Fixed (0)

No VuXML entries for this package.

Problem reports (0) · open in Bugzilla, most recently changed first

None.

Commits (111)

Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.43.3
- Convert to new perl framework
c9cf6c6113
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.43.3
- Use USES=gmake
bc221a68c1
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.43.3
- Update to 1.43.3

Changes:
- Update Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
- Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
- Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
- Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
- Update Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
- Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Tran Ngoc Quan).
- Update French translation (thanks to David Prevot).
d733768a2e
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.43.2
- Update to 1.43.2

Changes:

1.43.2:
- Use the generic term "section" in the documentation rather than "name", which
  could be confused to mean only the literal "NAME" section.

1.43.1:
- Add explicit include syntax for prepending, replacing or appending to
  generated output for a section (thanks to Daniil Baturin for the idea).
- Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Tran Ngoc Quan).
- Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
652aab01f8
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.42.1
- Update to 1.42.1

Changes:
- Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Tran Ngoc Quan).
- Update Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).
- Consistently strip path and/or libtool "lt-" prefix from any instance of
  $program derived from --help or --version (thanks to Eric Shattow for
  identifying the issue).
83d9d6f5f9
Alex Kozlov (ak) · 1.41.2
- Convert USE_GETTEXT to USES (part 3)

Approved by:	portmgr (bapt)
e159824929
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.41.2
- Update to 1.41.2

Changes:
- Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Tran Ngoc Quan).
- Update Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).
- Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rodolfo Ribeiro Gomes).

Feature safe:	yes
2c463f264c
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.41.1
- Update to 1.41.1

Changes:
- Rename configure.in to .ac, and revise use of AC_INIT/AC_OUTPUT macros to meet
  current autoconf guidelines.
- Add copyright headers to supporting files (GNU All-Permissive License).
- Fix section name comparisons ($sect is localised).
- Set filenames in italics (as suggested by Yann Soubeyrand).
- Suppress option/filename handling in EXAMPLES section.
22410da943
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.40.13
- Update to 1.40.13 - Cleanup Makefile header

Changes:
- Add "Multi-Arch: foreign" control field to permit any installable architecture
  to satisfy a build dependency when cross-building packages (closes: #694586).

Feature safe:	yes
0f1223101e
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.40.12
- Update to 1.40.12

Changes:
- Update Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).
- Fix updating of help2man.pot to occur only when help2man.PL is changed, not
  help2man generated.
1b9539a55d
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.40.11
- Update to 1.40.11

Changes:
- Add Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).
07f77f073c
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.40.10
- Convert to new options framework
2cb5e8bfc2
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.40.10
- Update to 1.40.10 - Remove SITE_PERL from *_DEPENDS - Pet portlint: use += instead of =

Changes:
- Update Greek translation (thanks to Savvas Radevic).
- Update Serbian translation (thanks to Miroslav Nikolic).
- Update German translation (thanks to Arun Persaud).
aa31ce349e
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.40.9
- Update to 1.40.9

Changes:
- Update Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
- Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
- Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
- Update German translation (thanks to Chris Leick, closes: #669564).
204dcc6bf5
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.40.8
- Update to 1.40.8

Changes:
- Update French translation (thanks to David Prevot).
- Update Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
- Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
- Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
- Update Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
- Modify self-extracting scripts to output to a temporary file.
- Ensure that help2man exists before building manual pages (as reported by
  Richard Maw).

Feature safe:	yes
bf06fab09c
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.40.7
- Update to 1.40.7

Changes:
- Update Greek translation (thanks to Savvas Radevic).

Feature safe:	yes
5988d94c4b
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.40.6
- Update to 1.40.6

Changes:
- Update years in debian/copyright.
- Fix FSF address in comments (thanks to Pautl Eggert).
1dbcd4af5f
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.40.5
- Update to 1.40.5

Changes:
- Clean up some lintian warnings: build-targets, source format and standards
  version.
- Add Serbian translation (thanks to Miroslav Nikoli)
- Fix trivial translation changes due to additional copyright year.
- Minor fix to Italian translation.
1c5d9b9f3f
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.40.4
- Change wording to avoid portlint warning of "which"
e38af8c70c
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.40.4
- Update to 1.40.4

Changes:
- Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rodolfo Ribeiro Gomes).

PR:		ports/158083
Submitted by:	Jin-Sih Lin <linpct@gmail.com>
746ec0a2ed
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.40.3
- Update to 1.40.3

Changes:
- Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
- Update links to git repository.
397176cfa3
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.40.2
- Update to 1.40.2

Changes:
- Remove a superfluous period from texinfo doc.
- Change footnote about supported languages to a simple paragraph.
- Update Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
- Update Ukrainian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
- Update French translation (thanks to David Prevot).
- Update Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
- Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
- Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
efbe18432e
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.40.1
- Update to 1.40.1

Changes:
- Update texinfo docs with recommendations kindly provided by Karl Berry.
- Document --libtool option.
- Fixup references to GNU Standards.
- Allow date format to be localised (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
- Add Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
b8499703b5
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.39.4
- Update to 1.39.4

Changes:
- Update Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta)
4718dabe39
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.39.3
- Update to 1.39.3

Changes:
- Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot, closes: #620250).
- Update the "Localised man pages" section of the Texinfo docs and note that
  translations are now handled through the Translation Project.
- Update German translation (thanks to Chris Leick, closes: #624401).
- Minor update to German translation as suggested by Werner Lemberg in
  http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=26828512
5c951cebbd
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.39.2
- Update to 1.39.2

Changes:
- Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
- Update Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
- Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
- Add Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
- Update Finnish translation (thanks to Tommi Vainikainen).
80e7995925
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.39.1
- Update to 1.39.1

Changes:
- Add option to remove `lt-' prefix for libtool programs (thanks to Ben Asselstine).
- Add Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
- Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
- Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
ef210ce9b1
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.38.4
- Update to 1.38.4 - Add LICENSE - Use PLIST_FILES, PLIST_DIRS and PLIST_DIRSTRY instead of PLIST

Changes:

1.38.4:
- Add Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
- Don't double encode $date in the header.
- Use UTF-8 encoding for all manual pages.
- Add Greek translation (thanks to Michael Kotsarinis).
- Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot, closes: #590580).
- Update German translation (thanks to Helge Kreutzmann, closes: #590975).
- Use INSTALL_SCRIPT to install Perl script.
- Remove deprecated DH_COMPAT in debian/rules, adding debian/compat.
- Add ${misc:Depends}.
- Don't ignore errors from distclean.
- Fix Brazilian, Russian and Italian translations (placement of period was
  causing text to be interpreted as a macro).
- Update standards version to 3.9.1.
- Add missing dependency on dpkg/install-info.
- Strip bindtextdomain.so preload.
- Install preload into $(libdir)/help2man.

1.38.3:
- Apply patch from Mike Frysinger to allow "make install -j" to work.
94b1417ff9
Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) · 1.38.2_1
- Update MAINTAINER to my FreeBSD.org address

Approved by:	pgollucci (mentor)
e475c19a24
Ade Lovett (ade) · 1.38.2_1
Bounce PORTREVISION for gettext-related ports.  Have fun, ya'll.
8d837132c7
Wen Heping (wen) · 1.38.2
- Update to 1.38.2

PR:		ports/146178
Submitted by:	Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@sunpoet.net> (maintainer)
4f7cace5d7
Alberto Villa (avilla) · 1.37.1_2
- Fix `make package` when WITHOUT_NLS is defined. - Bump PORTREVISION. - Pass maintainership to submitter.

PR:		144615
Submitted by:	Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@sunpoet.net>
Approved by:	tabthorpe (mentor)
d0c262b0f1
Sylvio Cesar Teixeira (sylvio) · 1.37.1_1
- Add CFLAGS to build port with "-lintl", because this port when build with GCC > 4.4 the port enable bindtextdomain.so - Add bindtextdomain.so for plist. - BUMP PORTREVISION

PR:		ports/144208
Submitted by:	Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net>
Approved by:	itetcu (mentor)
Feature safe:	yes
2a8fccc47b
Tilman Keskinoz (arved) · 1.37.1
Brin back patch-Makefile.in

Submitted by:	QAT
be1d2f1453
Tilman Keskinoz (arved) · 1.37.1
Update to 1.37.1 Drop Maintainership
27d3919c0a
Tilman Keskinoz (arved) · 1.36.4_3
Remove empty directories

PR:		133654
Submitted by:	leeym
d2164dcf04
Edwin Groothuis (edwin) · 1.36.4_2
Bump portrevision due to upgrade of devel/gettext.

The affected ports are the ones with gettext as a run-dependency
according to ports/INDEX-7 (5007 of them) and the ones with USE_GETTEXT
in Makefile (29 of them).

PR:             ports/124340
Submitted by:   edwin@
Approved by:    portmgr (pav)
090059a210
Tilman Keskinoz (arved) · 1.36.4_1
Bump PORTREVISION for plist change

Requested by:	pav
ddb4285dd2
Tilman Keskinoz (arved) · 1.36.4
Fix plist

Reported by:	pav
Pointy hat to:	arved
65e029f972
Tilman Keskinoz (arved) · 1.36.4
Update to 1.36.4 which adds a swedish translation. Don't run depend on gmake

Submitted by:	Martin Wilke (parts)
bbf4274b92
Edwin Groothuis (edwin) · 1.36.3
eplace ugly "@unexec rmdir %D... 2>/dev/null || true" with @dirrmtry

Approved by:    krion@
PR:             ports/88711 (related)
d568611c3e
Tilman Keskinoz (arved) · 1.36.3
Update to 1.36.3 (Updated french translation)
9b28a34395
Tilman Keskinoz (arved) · 1.36.2
Add SHA256 checksums for my ports
4ec9c8318a
Tilman Keskinoz (arved) · 1.36.2
Update to 1.36.2 	* Updated po translation from Jakub Bogusz.         * Makefile.in: $(srcdir) fix from Paul Eggert

PR:		88314
Submitted by:	Boris B. Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>

Grab back Maintainership
a52cbbab65
Volker Stolz (vs) · 1.36.1
Update to 1.36.1
9189b75095
Tilman Keskinoz (arved) · 1.35.1
Update to 1.35.1
dd693df835
Pav Lucistnik (pav) · 1.34.2
- Remove all man directories
cb4057b78f
Tilman Keskinoz (arved) · 1.34.2
Drop Maintainership.

This is usually the first port that fails if people manage to fsck their
perl installations, so i am getting too many support emails.
b76e969d49
Tilman Keskinoz (arved) · 1.34.2
Update to 1.34.2
23d3fe40f3
Trevor Johnson (trevor) · 1.33.1
SIZEify (maintainer timeout)
8232e82f85