diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/help2man/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/help2man/default.nix
index 8f687908017f..6839335245fc 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/help2man/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/help2man/default.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, perl, gettext, LocaleGettext, makeWrapper }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "help2man-1.47.3";
+  name = "help2man-1.47.4";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://gnu/help2man/${name}.tar.xz";