diff --git a/extra/help2man/PKGBUILD b/extra/help2man/PKGBUILD
index 86b1d0af3..97e634030 100644
--- a/extra/help2man/PKGBUILD
+++ b/extra/help2man/PKGBUILD
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 plugrel=1
 
 pkgname=help2man
-pkgver=1.40.8
+pkgver=1.40.9
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Conversion tool to create man files"
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ license=('GPL')
 depends=('perl-locale-gettext')
 install=help2man.install
 source=("http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz")
-md5sums=('5a58c9900affd16013e091a89dcddf58')
+md5sums=('243aa6d549888c265616f2a082777a56')
 
 build() {
   cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"