diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/files/autoconf-2.73.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/files/autoconf-2.73.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6c997a68e6..0000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/files/autoconf-2.73.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-The gnulib largefile macro needs updating to work with autoconf 2.73. Rather
-than the full code:
-
-https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/m4/largefile.m4?id=f91f633858cf132e50924224c50d6264a92caabb
-
-Just tweak the exiting code to work with 2.73. The next man-db upgrade should
-update to new gnulib
-
-Upstream-Status: Inappropriate
-Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
-
-Index: findutils-4.9.0/gl/m4/largefile.m4
-===================================================================
---- findutils-4.9.0.orig/gl/m4/largefile.m4
-+++ findutils-4.9.0/gl/m4/largefile.m4
-@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl_SET_LARGEFILE_SOURCE],
- # with _TIME_BITS.  Also, work around a problem in autoconf <= 2.69:
- # AC_SYS_LARGEFILE does not configure for large inodes on Mac OS X 10.5,
- # or configures them incorrectly in some cases.
--m4_version_prereq([2.70], [], [
-+m4_version_prereq([2.73], [], [
- 
- # _AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_TEST_INCLUDES
- # -------------------------------
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.11.2.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.12.0.bb
similarity index 95%
rename from meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.11.2.bb
rename to meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.12.0.bb
index 8941ffc013..19dbb41d16 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.11.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/man-db/man-db_2.12.0.bb
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=1ebbd3e34237af26da5dc08a4e440464 \
 SRC_URI = "${SAVANNAH_NONGNU_MIRROR}/man-db/man-db-${PV}.tar.xz \
            file://99_mandb \
            file://0001-man-Move-local-variable-declaration-to-function-scop.patch \
-           file://autoconf-2.73.patch"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "cffa1ee4e974be78646c46508e6dd2f37e7c589aaab2938cc1064f058fef9f8d"
+          "
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "415a6284a22764ad22ff0f66710d853be7790dd451cd71436e3d25c74d996a95"
 
 DEPENDS = "libpipeline gdbm groff-native base-passwd"
 RDEPENDS:${PN} += "base-passwd"