Change log for man-db package in Ubuntu

man-db (2.11.2-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Cherry-pick from upstream:
    - Update warning regex for groff 1.23.0 (closes: #1041847).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Mon, 24 Jul 2023 12:46:49 +0100

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man-db (2.11.2-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Add debconf translations:
    - Romanian (thanks, Remus-Gabriel Chelu; closes: #1032685).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Sun, 12 Mar 2023 22:23:59 +0000

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• diff from 2.11.2-1 to 2.11.2-2 (1.9 KiB)

man-db (2.11.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Fix crash in mandb when processing stray cats (closes: #1027487).
  * Set upstream metadata fields: Repository.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Sun, 08 Jan 2023 22:52:39 +0000

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• diff from 2.11.1-1 to 2.11.2-1 (72.8 KiB)

man-db (2.11.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * debian/upstream/metadata: Update upstream Git URL.
  * debian/control: Update Homepage URL.
  * debian/copyright: Update Source URL.
  * New upstream release:
    - SECURITY: Replace "$" characters in page names with "?" when
      constructing "less" prompts (closes: #1021951).
    - Silence error message when processing an empty manual page hierarchy
      with a nonexistent cache directory (closes: #762335).
    - man(1) now sorts whatis references below real pages, even if the
      whatis references are from a section with higher priority (closes:
      #780235).
    - Add section "3type" to the default section list just after "2".  This
      is used by the Linux man-pages package.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:14:06 +0000

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• diff from 2.10.2-2 to 2.11.1-1 (565.9 KiB)
• diff from 2.11.0-1 to 2.11.1-1 (156.4 KiB)

man-db (2.11.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Allow the reproduction of bitwise-identical databases regardless of
      scan order (closes: #1010957).
    - Run preprocessors in the correct order (closes: #1012078).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Sat, 15 Oct 2022 15:48:48 +0100

man-db (2.10.2-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Gioele Barabucci ]
  * d/postinst: Run mandb with setpriv instead of perl.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Fri, 19 Aug 2022 10:13:31 +0100

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man-db (2.10.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Fix showing HTML, as firefox runs into background too fast (closes:
      #335411).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Thu, 17 Mar 2022 19:03:00 +0000

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man-db (2.10.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Ensure that PATH in cron jobs includes sbin directories, since there are
    long-standing bugs that it doesn't always do so (closes: #209185).
  * New upstream release:
    - Update Simplified Chinese manual page translation (closes: #1005139).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Thu, 10 Feb 2022 12:36:03 +0000

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• diff from 2.10.0-2 to 2.10.1-1 (37.3 KiB)

man-db (2.10.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fix occasional mandb-symlink-target-timestamp test failure.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Fri, 04 Feb 2022 19:21:06 +0000

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man-db (2.9.4-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * debian/watch: Upgrade to version 4.
  * Upgrade to debhelper v13.
  * Move globbing, manconv, and zsoelim to /usr/libexec/man-db, in line with
    FHS 3.0.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Sun, 26 Dec 2021 14:55:45 +0000

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man-db (2.9.4-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Remove maintainer script code for upgrades from extremely old versions.
  * Convert several debconf translations to UTF-8.
  * Remove now-unnecessary hardening-no-fortify-functions Lintian override.

  [ Debian Janitor ]
  * Remove constraints unnecessary since buster:
    + Build-Depends: Drop versioned constraint on dpkg and libpipeline-dev.
    + man-db: Drop versioned constraint on debconf and groff-base in Depends.
    + man-db: Drop versioned constraint on dpkg in Pre-Depends.
    + man-db: Drop versioned constraint on manpages-de, manpages-tr and
      manpages-zh in Replaces.
    + man-db: Drop versioned constraint on manpages-tr and manpages-zh in
      Breaks.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Sun, 26 Dec 2021 02:09:49 +0000

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• diff from 2.9.4-2build1 (in Ubuntu) to 2.9.4-3 (6.2 KiB)

man-db (2.9.4-2build1) impish; urgency=medium

  * No-change rebuild to build packages with zstd compression.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden>  Thu, 07 Oct 2021 12:20:37 +0200

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• diff from 2.9.4-2 (in Debian) to 2.9.4-2build1 (395 bytes)

man-db (2.9.4-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Marriott NZ ]
  * Remove overquoting of %s placeholder in mailcap entry (closes: #982618).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Fri, 19 Feb 2021 10:14:23 +0000

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• diff from 2.9.3-2 to 2.9.4-2 (218.2 KiB)
• diff from 2.9.4-1build1 (in Ubuntu) to 2.9.4-2 (1.1 KiB)

man-db (2.9.4-1build1) hirsute; urgency=medium

  * No change rebuild with fixed ownership.

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden>  Tue, 16 Feb 2021 15:17:47 +0000

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• diff from 2.9.4-1 (in Debian) to 2.9.4-1build1 (596 bytes)

man-db (2.9.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Allow clock_gettime64; return ENOSYS so libcs can engage fallbacks
      (closes: #969072).
    - Handle \[en] escapes in NAME section (closes: #970122).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Mon, 08 Feb 2021 23:24:55 +0000

man-db (2.9.3-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * AppArmor:
    - Silently deny dac_override and dac_read_search capabilities (closes:
      #962006).
    - Allow troff to write to /tmp/groff* (closes: #949320).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Sun, 05 Jul 2020 10:06:35 +0100

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man-db (2.9.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * debian/watch: Update signature suffix to .asc rather than .sig.
  * Depend/build-depend on bsdextrautils | bsdmainutils (<< 12.1.1~)
    (closes: #963483).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Mon, 22 Jun 2020 22:01:21 +0100

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man-db (2.9.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Debian Janitor ]
  * Trim trailing whitespace.
  * Wrap long lines in changelog entries: 2.3.10-40.
  * Bump debhelper from deprecated 9 to 12.
  * Drop unnecessary dependency on dh-autoreconf.
  * Drop unnecessary dh arguments: --parallel
  * Rely on pre-initialized dpkg-architecture variables.

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * New upstream release:
    - man/man1/*: Fix misuse of two-fonts macros (closes: #955185).
    - man/man8/*: Fix misuse of two-fonts macros (closes: #955187).
    - Update German manual page translation (closes: #955320).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:17:41 +0100

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man-db (2.9.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Tue, 25 Feb 2020 17:13:45 +0000

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man-db (2.9.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * AppArmor: Allow groff to read /etc/papersize (thanks, Bruce Momjian;
    closes: #945909).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Thu, 12 Dec 2019 00:22:16 +0000

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man-db (2.9.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Remove stray words from man(1) (closes: #939599).
    - man(1): Minor typographic changes (closes: #892230).
    - apropos(1): Minor typographic changes (closes: #892421).
    - manpath(1): Correct some typographic mistakes (closes: #927452).
    - Remove confusing use of "on-line" (closes: #774402).
    - Improve documentation of MANROFFOPT (closes: #914938).
    - Suggest "man man" if run with no arguments (closes: #869798).
    - man(1): Explain interactions between -w/-W and -a (closes: #803712).
    - Make some debugging output less verbose (closes: #863920).
    - man: Accept "page(section)" form on command line (closes: #677350).
    - Add a new man-recode program (closes: #933576).
  * Avoid the confusing term "on-line" in the package description (closes:
    #774402).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Wed, 23 Oct 2019 12:52:11 +0100

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man-db (2.8.7-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Stop trying to get dh_installman to use the just-built version of man.
    There are too many reasons this can fail, and it's of marginal utility
    (dh_installman only uses man for recoding, which is pretty stable).
  * Update path to Gnulib files in debian/copyright.
  * Add a debian/upstream/metadata file.
  * Re-export debian/upstream/signing-key.asc without extra signatures.
  * Override shlib-calls-exit Lintian tag for libman-*.so, since this is
    intentional and OK.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:39:08 +0100

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• diff from 2.8.7-1 to 2.8.7-3 (196.9 KiB)

man-db (2.8.7-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - sandbox: Set default action to EPERM, not TRAP (closes: #902257).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:30:44 +0100

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man-db (2.8.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Fix missing memory copies in ult_src that caused segfaults in mandb
      (closes: #933802, LP: #1838871).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Mon, 05 Aug 2019 10:52:30 +0100

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man-db (2.8.6-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Use debhelper-compat instead of debian/compat.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Sat, 03 Aug 2019 12:31:40 +0100

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man-db (2.8.5-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Remove redundant condition in cron.daily script (closes: #918967).
  * Update Homepage and debian/copyright Source to use HTTPS.
  * Add --quiet to systemd mandb invocation (closes: #920628).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Sun, 10 Feb 2019 12:14:20 +0000

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man-db (2.8.5-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
    - Fix handling of \- in RHS of NAME section (closes: #913351).
    - Fix incorrect error message (closes: #913721).
    - Ship a systemd timer for daily DB maintenance (closes: #858022).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Sun, 06 Jan 2019 09:53:43 +0000

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man-db (2.8.4-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Remove dh_builddeb override to use xz compression; this has been the
    default since dpkg 1.17.0.
  * Stop building with V=1; debhelper configures with --disable-silent-rules
    as of 9.20150501.
  * AppArmor:
    - Allow man to talk to Unix sockets, so that it can spawn X-based
      subprocesses.
    - Fix syntax to allow sending signals to related profiles.
    - Allow sending signals to the same profile.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:01:42 +0000

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• diff from 2.8.4-2build1 (in Ubuntu) to 2.8.4-3 (1.5 KiB)

man-db (2.8.4-2build1) disco; urgency=medium

  * Rebuild against new libgdbm6.

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden>  Sat, 03 Nov 2018 15:10:17 +0100

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• diff from 2.8.4-2 (in Debian) to 2.8.4-2build1 (317 bytes)

man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Backport seccomp sandbox improvements from 2.8.4 (LP: #1785414):
    - Allow sched_getaffinity, used by xz in some cases.
    - Allow some shared memory operations, required by preloaded libraries
      such as the Astrill VPN.
    - Improve ESET File Security compatibility further.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Sat, 04 Aug 2018 20:16:12 +0100

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• diff from 2.8.3-2 (in Debian) to 2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1 (2.1 KiB)

man-db (2.8.4-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Dimitri John Ledkov ]
  * Adapt apparmor profile for usrmerge. LP: #1784023

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Mon, 30 Jul 2018 14:41:37 +0100

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man-db (2.8.4-1ubuntu1) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * Adapt apparmor profile for usrmerge. LP: #1784023

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden>  Mon, 30 Jul 2018 14:23:24 +0100

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man-db (2.8.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Check for mandb_nfmt and mandb_tfmt in the manual page hierarchy as
      documented, not in the current directory (closes: #901007).
  * Remove long-obsolete Conflicts on suidmanager.
  * Adjust git-dpm tagging configuration.
  * Explicitly declare "Rules-Requires-Root: binary-targets" (due to
    installing /var/cache/man with ownership man:man).
  * Remove syntax-error-in-debian-changelog Lintian override;
    Parse::DebianChangelog seems to have got smarter about detecting old
    changelog formats since I added that.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Fri, 27 Jul 2018 12:31:12 +0100

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man-db (2.8.3-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * AppArmor: Allow man_filter to read from anywhere, since there are no
    real restrictions on where manual page files may be, and the worst this
    can do is feed data to the invoking man process.
  * AppArmor: Allow man and its related profiles to exchange signals.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Sat, 07 Apr 2018 12:15:33 +0100

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man-db (2.8.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - sandbox: Allow kill and tgkill unconditionally (closes: #892309).
    - sandbox: Allow sibling architectures on x86/x86_64/x32 (closes:
      #891267).
    - man: Only change directory in child processes (closes: #894792).
  * Switch debian/watch to HTTPS.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Thu, 05 Apr 2018 13:09:43 +0100

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man-db (2.8.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - sandbox: Work around snoopy (closes: #890861).
    - sandbox: Handle qemu-user returning EFAULT (closes: #891109).
  * Use HTTPS form of copyright-format URL.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:04:14 +0000

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man-db (2.8.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Use stacked profiles for subprocesses so that AppArmor realises that
    they constitute a reduction in privileges and allows the transition even
    after a seccomp filter has been installed.
  * Build with seccomp again, now that it works in conjunction with
    AppArmor.
  * Breaks/Replaces manpages-tr (<< 1.0.5.1-3) (closes: #889805).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Fri, 09 Feb 2018 13:32:41 +0000

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man-db (2.8.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Build without seccomp for now, until I work out how to make it play well
    with AppArmor on recent kernels (closes: #889608, #889626).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Mon, 05 Feb 2018 10:09:57 +0000

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• diff from 2.8.0-1 to 2.8.0-2 (610 bytes)

man-db (2.8.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * New upstream release:
    - If man adds prefixes to a page to handle such things as disabling
      hyphenation, then take account of those when looking for a
      preprocessor line at the start of the page (closes: #867857).
    - Confine most subprocesses that handle untrusted data using seccomp
      (closes: #877199).
  * Move VCS to salsa.debian.org.

  [ Benjamin Drung ]
  * Fix malformed debian/changelog entry (closes: #886649).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Sun, 04 Feb 2018 17:25:58 +0000

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• diff from 2.7.6.1-4build1 (in Ubuntu) to 2.8.0-1 (495.8 KiB)

man-db (2.7.6.1-4build1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Rebuild against new libgdbm5.

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden>  Fri, 02 Feb 2018 15:25:38 +0100

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• diff from 2.7.6.1-4 (in Debian) to 2.7.6.1-4build1 (329 bytes)

man-db (2.7.6.1-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Add missing AppArmor lock access.
  * Recent kernels revalidate open FDs, and there are often some still open
    on TTYs.  Temporarily add <abstractions/consoles> to AppArmor groff and
    filter child profiles until we have a chance to teach man to close
    irrelevant open FDs before execve (closes: #882405).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Wed, 22 Nov 2017 12:41:37 +0000

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• diff from 2.7.6.1-3 to 2.7.6.1-4 (863 bytes)

man-db (2.7.6.1-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Add a simple AppArmor profile to confine groff-related programs,
    decompressors, and other filters when run from man.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Tue, 21 Nov 2017 11:46:44 +0000

man-db (2.7.6.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fix locale macro loading for Chinese.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:10:25 +0000

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man-db (2.7.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Don't chmod CACHEDIR.TAG if it doesn't exist (closes: #847810).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Mon, 12 Dec 2016 12:51:57 +0000

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man-db (2.7.6-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Note that "man -K" searches page source (closes: #813665).
    - SECURITY: Eliminate dangerous setgid-root directories.
    - man now understands the <page>.<section> form on its command line, so
      for example 'man chmod.2' is now the same as 'man 2 chmod'.
  * Adjust various bits of packaging to account for changed ownership and
    permissions of /usr/bin/man, /usr/bin/mandb, and /var/cache/man.
  * SECURITY: Remove recursive chown of /var/cache/man from cron.daily job,
    which introduced a vulnerability and is no longer needed now that man-db
    is more careful about ensuring appropriate ownership of its cache files
    (closes: #840357, LP: #1482786).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Sun, 11 Dec 2016 16:27:19 +0000

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man-db (2.7.5-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Update Vcs-Browser URL for alioth cgit.
  * Use HTTPS for Vcs-Git URL.
  * Display pages from section 3am after section 2 (closes: #838759).
  * Policy version 3.9.8: no changes required.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Sun, 20 Nov 2016 19:52:51 +0000

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man-db (2.7.5-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Adjust line number when inserting extra roff input (closes: #789219).
    - Disable roff input insertion with --recode (closes: #751795).
    - Build text manual with LC_ALL=C, to help reproducible builds.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Fri, 06 Nov 2015 15:56:41 +0000

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man-db (2.7.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - man: Exit 3 if formatter exits non-zero (closes: #801261).
    - man: Honour MANWIDTH in conjunction with -Z (closes: #801241).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Thu, 08 Oct 2015 02:42:14 +0100

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man-db (2.7.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Rewrite CACHEDIR.TAG and databases if they cannot be read (closes:
      #797019).
    - Squeeze blank lines internally instead of pager -s (closes: #796584).
    - Restore the ability to use 'man -a' noninteractively (closes:
      #798094).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Wed, 09 Sep 2015 16:56:42 +0100

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man-db (2.7.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Stop storing the database handle in a global variable (LP: #1304261).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Sun, 16 Aug 2015 17:30:19 +0100

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