Changelog
man-db (2.6.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release: - Search the full manpath when expanding .so directives in manual pages. As part of this, '.so name.1' should now work as well as '.so man1/name.1' (closes: #503472, LP: #411534). - Handle roff named glyphs and perldoc strings in NAME sections (closes: #601025). - Don't start a pager if stdout is not a tty. - Allow passing multiple sections to whatis and apropos (closes: #571285). - Provide byte positions in manconv errors (closes: #562789). - Make mandb error output neater when stderr is not a tty. - Fix failure to display manual pages in some encodings when installed setuid. - Don't ignore SIGPIPE while forking iconv (closes: #597756). - Remove obsolete subdirectories of cat directories (closes: #558804). - If mandb sees that A is a symlink to B, it should never store a whatis reference for B (closes: #204249). - Print commas in roman rather than bold (thanks, David Prévot; closes: #600002). - Consider .PD requests as paragraph breaks (closes: #611012). - Reset SIGPIPE to SIG_DFL on startup, to avoid noisy output in the event that mandb was started from a context where SIGPIPE was ignored. - SECTION entries in a user configuration file now override those in the system configuration file, rather than appending to them. - If the user asked for an explicit section, sort exact matches first. - Rewrite all remaining subprocess handling in terms of libpipeline, especially some crash-prone code in catman (LP: #27738). - The default less prompt now includes "(press h for help or q to quit)" to help novices find their way around (http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/25975). - Fix a segfault when 'man -K' tries to display certain pages. - Fix a segfault in some situations when processes are killed by SIGHUP, SIGINT, or SIGTERM (LP: #218336). * Avoid unnecessary metadata writes to /var/cache/man when doing recursive chown (thanks, Iustin Pop; closes: #619726). -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:59:40 +0100
