diff --git a/office/evince/README b/office/evince/README
index 80a6ec3cf4..cf4549390b 100644
--- a/office/evince/README
+++ b/office/evince/README
@@ -13,3 +13,8 @@ Evince is specifically designed to support the following file formats:
 * CBR/CBZ (comic books)
 * DVI
 * XPS (requires optional dependency libgxps)
+
+Note: evince-41.5 is the newest version of evince that is possible
+to build on Slackware 15.0. Starting with 42.0, evince requires a
+newer poppler than 15.0 has. So please don't ask for this build to
+be updated; it'll have to wait for Slackware 15.1.
diff --git a/office/evince/evince.SlackBuild b/office/evince/evince.SlackBuild
index 8b706be14c..730b0a038a 100644
--- a/office/evince/evince.SlackBuild
+++ b/office/evince/evince.SlackBuild
@@ -26,10 +26,12 @@
 
 # Now maintained by B. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk>
 
+# 20230104 bkw: update for v41.5 (see README for why it's not 42.x or 43.x)
+
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=evince
-VERSION=${VERSION:-41.3}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-41.5}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
@@ -42,9 +44,6 @@ if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
   esac
 fi
 
-# If the variable PRINT_PACKAGE_NAME is set, then this script will report what
-# the name of the created package would be, and then exit. This information
-# could be useful to other scripts.
 if [ ! -z "${PRINT_PACKAGE_NAME}" ]; then
   echo "$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.$PKGTYPE"
   exit 0
@@ -109,7 +108,7 @@ cd build
 cd ..
 rm -f $PKG/{,usr/}lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/*.la
 
-gzip -9 $PKG/usr/man/man1/$PRGNAM.1
+gzip -9 $PKG/usr/man/man1/*.1
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cp -a AUTHORS COPYING NEWS *.md MAINTAINERS NEWS NOTES TODO \
diff --git a/office/evince/evince.info b/office/evince/evince.info
index e940d7c913..1c15d2ac0e 100644
--- a/office/evince/evince.info
+++ b/office/evince/evince.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="evince"
-VERSION="41.3"
+VERSION="41.5"
 HOMEPAGE="http://projects.gnome.org/evince/"
-DOWNLOAD="https://download.gnome.org/sources/evince/41/evince-41.3.tar.xz"
-MD5SUM="15518c459805277b90bad34e7d4551f6"
+DOWNLOAD="https://download.gnome.org/sources/evince/41/evince-41.5.tar.xz"
+MD5SUM="08bebf04d93b8f7f03d5a865ab447f50"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="libhandy"