diff --git a/misc/help2man/Makefile b/misc/help2man/Makefile
index c5ef6ac88ebc..a9685b6428e0 100644
--- a/misc/help2man/Makefile
+++ b/misc/help2man/Makefile
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@
 # $FreeBSD$
 
 PORTNAME=	help2man
-PORTVERSION=	1.43.3
-PORTREVISION=	2
+PORTVERSION=	1.47.4
 CATEGORIES=	misc
 MASTER_SITES=	GNU/${PORTNAME}
 
@@ -15,27 +14,25 @@ LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=	NLS
 
-LIBS+=		-L${LOCALBASE}/lib
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
-USES=		gmake perl5
+USES=		gmake localbase perl5 tar:xz
 
 INFO=		${PORTNAME}
 PLIST_FILES=	bin/${PORTNAME} \
-		man/man1/help2man.1.gz
-
-LANGS=		de el eo fi fr hr it pl pt_BR ru sr sv uk vi
-LANGS_MTREE=	ja	# languages that already exist in BSD.local.dist
+		man/man1/${PORTNAME}.1.gz
 
 NLS_BUILD_DEPENDS=	p5-Locale-gettext>=0:devel/p5-Locale-gettext
 NLS_CONFIGURE_ENABLE=	nls
-# Add note of build failure caused by Perl infrastructure change in 20130612
-NLS_VARS=		CONFIGURE_FAIL_MESSAGE="Please read UPDATING entry 20130612 \(http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/UPDATING\?r1=320405\&r2=320679\) and PR/184276 \(http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi\?pr=ports/184276\) to fix your Perl installation if you got the error message \"configure: error: perl module Locale::gettext required\"."
 NLS_PLIST_FILES=	lib/bindtextdomain.so
 NLS_RUN_DEPENDS=	p5-Locale-gettext>=0:devel/p5-Locale-gettext
 NLS_USES=		gettext
 
-.for lang in ${LANGS} ${LANGS_MTREE}
-NLS_PLIST_FILES+=	man/${lang}/man1/help2man.1.gz \
+.for lang in de es fr pl uk zh_CN
+NLS_INFO+=		${PORTNAME}-${lang}
+.endfor
+
+.for lang in da de el eo es fi fr hr hu it ja nb pl pt_BR ru sr sv uk vi zh_CN
+NLS_PLIST_FILES+=	man/${lang}/man1/${PORTNAME}.1.gz \
 			share/locale/${lang}/LC_MESSAGES/${PORTNAME}.mo
 .endfor
 
diff --git a/misc/help2man/distinfo b/misc/help2man/distinfo
index 761a6eb8bb8f..5ff4a243c4ca 100644
--- a/misc/help2man/distinfo
+++ b/misc/help2man/distinfo
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
-SHA256 (help2man-1.43.3.tar.gz) = 67978d118980ebd9f0c60be5db129527900a7b997b9568fc795ba9bdb341d303
-SIZE (help2man-1.43.3.tar.gz) = 199611
+TIMESTAMP = 1479577891
+SHA256 (help2man-1.47.4.tar.xz) = d4ecf697d13f14dd1a78c5995f06459bff706fd1ce593d1c02d81667c0207753
+SIZE (help2man-1.47.4.tar.xz) = 189456
diff --git a/misc/help2man/pkg-descr b/misc/help2man/pkg-descr
index f87c1253e8e7..93303ddb0f81 100644
--- a/misc/help2man/pkg-descr
+++ b/misc/help2man/pkg-descr
@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ Given a program which produces resonably standard --help and --version
 outputs, help2man will attempt to re-arrange that output into something
 which resembles a manual page.
 
-WWW: http://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/
+WWW: https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/