--- build-help.pl.orig	2005-07-27 15:10:08.000000000 -0500
+++ build-help.pl	2005-09-28 20:28:08.000000000 -0500
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@
 # writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place,
 # Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA.
 
+# edd Sep 2005  R 2.2.0 no longer supports (or needs) --htmllists, yet all
+#               of the r-cran-* postinst still call it so we need this patch
+#               implementing a null-op function to show it is recognised.
+
 use File::Basename;
 use Cwd;
 use Getopt::Long;
@@ -33,11 +37,12 @@
 ($name = $0) =~ s|.*/||;
 
 @knownoptions = ("rhome:s", "html", "txt", "latex", "example", "debug|d",
-		 "dosnames", "help|h", "version|v", "os|OS:s", 
+		 "dosnames", "help|h", "version|v", "os|OS:s", "htmllists",
 		 "index");
 GetOptions (@knownoptions) || usage();
 &R_version($name, $version) if $opt_version;
 &usage() if $opt_help;
+htmllists() if $opt_htmllists;
 
 $OSdir ="unix";
 $OSdir = $opt_os if $opt_os;
@@ -268,3 +273,10 @@
 END
   exit 0;
 }
+
+sub htmllists {
+  print STDERR <<END;
+Ignoring deprecated option --htmllists called from postinst or postrm script.
+END
+  exit 0;
+}