diff --git a/extra/help2man/PKGBUILD b/extra/help2man/PKGBUILD
index b7dbf10ae..3a5d34313 100644
--- a/extra/help2man/PKGBUILD
+++ b/extra/help2man/PKGBUILD
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #  - make install must be run as -j1, mkdir is not thread-safe for whatever reason
 
 pkgname=help2man
-pkgver=1.43.3
+pkgver=1.44.1
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Conversion tool to create man files"
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ url="http://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/"
 license=('GPL')
 depends=('perl-locale-gettext')
 install=help2man.install
-source=("http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz")
-md5sums=('a84868db7c139238df8add5d86a0b54f')
+source=("http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.xz")
+md5sums=('a5dc6530340b41f0e492d400670dd7ae')
 
 build() {
   cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"