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On 12/14/12 1:19 PM, Marko Lindqvist wrote:
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> As part of systematic check for newer versions of GNU packages
> I noticed this one, and it turned out to build as trivial
> update (change version number, PR, checksums). But is help2man
> actually used for anything? Many components that use it in
> their upstream have patch to disable it in oe builds.

It is unfortunately needed to build a number of things.  In addition, we do want 
to have working man pages available for some configurations.  So this uprev 
looks like a very good idea to me.

--Mark

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