Change log for man-db package in Ubuntu

man-db (2.7.0.2-5) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Drop real IDs before effective IDs, for non-Linux compatibility (closes:
    #772597).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:40:13 +0000

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man-db (2.7.0.2-4) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Backport Danish and French translation updates from upstream (closes:
    #771367).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Fri, 05 Dec 2014 16:23:07 +0000

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• diff from 2.7.0.2-3 to 2.7.0.2-4 (9.1 KiB)

man-db (2.7.0.2-3) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Policy version 3.9.6: no changes required.
  * Assume that dpkg-statoverride exists and drop the test for an obsolete
    compatibility path.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Mon, 03 Nov 2014 20:26:39 +0000

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• diff from 2.7.0.2-2 to 2.7.0.2-3 (818 bytes)

man-db (2.7.0.2-2) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Remove /var/lib/man-db/auto-update on purge.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:09:07 +0100

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• diff from 2.7.0.2-1 to 2.7.0.2-2 (447 bytes)

man-db (2.7.0.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium


  * New upstream release:
    - Be more careful to avoid using or double-closing closed database
      handles.  Fixes test suite failures on some systems.
    - Patch the fdutimens function imported from Gnulib to work around a
      libc bug in GNU/Hurd.
  * Stop removing /usr/bin/man and /usr/bin/mandb on prerm remove, as those
    symlinks are shipped in the package nowadays (thanks, Sven Joachim;
    closes: #762704).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Sun, 28 Sep 2014 00:37:40 +0100

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• diff from 2.7.0.1-1 to 2.7.0.2-1 (25.1 KiB)

man-db (2.7.0.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium


  * New upstream release:
    - Fix test suite in the case where the system supports high-precision
      timestamps but the file system containing the build directory does
      not.
  * Ensure that /var/cache/man exists when triggered (LP: #1351795).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Wed, 24 Sep 2014 02:23:08 +0100

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• diff from 2.7.0-1 to 2.7.0.1-1 (49.2 KiB)

man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=medium

  * Cache the value of man-db/auto-update in the file system, so that we
    don't have to talk to debconf when processing triggers (LP: #1372673).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>   Tue, 23 Sep 2014 11:59:32 +0100

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• diff from 2.6.7.1-1 (in Debian) to 2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1 (1.2 KiB)

man-db (2.6.1-2ubuntu2) precise; urgency=medium

  * Cache the value of man-db/auto-update in the file system, so that we
    don't have to talk to debconf when processing triggers (LP: #1372673).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>   Tue, 23 Sep 2014 11:58:23 +0100

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• diff from 2.6.1-2ubuntu1 to 2.6.1-2ubuntu2 (1.3 KiB)

man-db (2.5.7-2ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=medium

  * Cache the value of man-db/auto-update in the file system, so that we
    don't have to talk to debconf when processing triggers (LP: #1372673).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>   Tue, 23 Sep 2014 11:56:37 +0100

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• diff from 2.5.7-2ubuntu1 to 2.5.7-2ubuntu2 (1009 bytes)

man-db (2.7.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium


  * New upstream release:
    - Add systemd tmpfiles snippet to clean up old cat files after a week.
    - Run "col -b -p -x" over cat pages if possible before parsing them
      (closes: #751934).
    - Move database mtime out of the database into file metadata, making the
      database reproducible between installations (closes: #760895).
    - Use high-precision timestamps.
    - Order files by first physical extent before reading (closes: #574410).
    - Prioritise COLUMNS above TIOCGWINSZ (LP: #1315282).
    - Formatting improvements to man(1) (closes: #726266).
    - Don't use pointed-to name as title for database-located pages (closes:
      #709405).
    - Move zsoelim to /usr/lib/man-db/.
  * Remove unnecessary entries from debian/dirs.
  * Cache the value of man-db/auto-update in the file system, so that we
    don't have to talk to debconf when processing triggers (closes:
    #579075).
  * Add MIME handlers (thanks, Kevin Ryde; closes: #725157).
  * Override the long-standing Lintian warning for non-standard-dir-perm on
    /var/cache/man.
  * Adjust cron.daily to skip cat file cleanup if running under systemd,
    since the upstream-provided tmpfiles snippet now handles that.
  * Rebuild the database on upgrade to this version, since the format has
    changed.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:43:40 +0100

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• diff from 2.6.7.1-1 to 2.7.0-1 (355.8 KiB)

man-db (2.6.7.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Add OpenPGP signature checking configuration to watch file.
  * New upstream release.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Thu, 10 Apr 2014 03:43:39 +0100

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• diff from 2.6.6-1 to 2.6.7.1-1 (543.4 KiB)

man-db (2.6.6-1) unstable; urgency=medium


  * New upstream release:
    - Reimplement 'apropos --and' in a way that works with the optimisations
      introduced in 2.6.2 (closes: #678670).
    - Clarify that whatis displays one-line descriptions, rather than e.g.
      the contents of DESCRIPTION sections (closes: #713992).
    - Downgrade EAGAIN/EWOULDBLOCK errors from attempts to open a database
      read-write to debug messages (closes: #684235).
  * Switch to git (thanks to reposurgeon for helping with the tricky
    stitching involved); adjust Vcs-* fields.
  * Policy version 3.9.5: no changes required.
  * Set VERBOSE=1 when running tests so that Automake will print test logs
    on failure.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:49:44 +0000

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man-db (2.6.5-3) unstable; urgency=low


  * Drop obsolete dpkg version check in cron jobs; the version in question
    predates oldstable, and man-db pre-depends on a newer version anyway
    (closes: #731687).
  * Silence errors caused by cron.daily racing with mandb (closes: #734063).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Fri, 03 Jan 2014 12:45:10 +0000

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• diff from 2.6.5-2 to 2.6.5-3 (933 bytes)

man-db (2.6.5-2) unstable; urgency=low


  * Backport from trunk:
    - Attempt fallback locales even if /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED exists.
      (It may exist but none of the UTF-8 locales mentioned it in may be
      present; nevertheless, C.UTF-8 may be available.)

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Fri, 28 Jun 2013 06:18:32 +0100

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• diff from 2.6.4-1 to 2.6.5-2 (50.8 KiB)
• diff from 2.6.5-1 to 2.6.5-2 (1.1 KiB)

man-db (2.6.5-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream release:
    - man's --warnings option works again on systems with versions of groff
      that support it (broken in 2.6.4).  This broke Lintian's test suite.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Thu, 27 Jun 2013 11:59:34 +0100

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man-db (2.6.4-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream release:
    - Document default section list in manual pages (closes: #611007).
    - Quieten most warnings from compiling Gnulib (closes: #668429).
    - The MANLESS environment variable is now treated as if it were a
      default value for the -r option to man: occurrences of the text
      "$MAN_PN" are expanded, and explicitly using the -r option overrides
      the default (closes: #690831).
  * Use 'set -e' rather than '#! /bin/sh -e' in maintainer scripts.
  * Remove maintainer script support for direct upgrades from pre-etch
    (three releases before current stable).
  * Breaks/Replaces manpages-zh (<< 1.5.2-1.1); man-db now ships zh_CN
    translations formerly included there.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:34:02 +0100

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• diff from 2.6.3-7 to 2.6.4-1 (610.1 KiB)

man-db (2.6.3-7) unstable; urgency=low


  * Build-depend on debhelper (>= 9~) directly rather than requiring a
    Lintian override for use of 8.9.0.
  * Temporarily drop -Werror from AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE options and backport
    patches to handle the Automake parallel test harness, working around
    warnings caused by the version of Gnulib currently in use here (closes:
    #710309).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:43:15 +0100

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man-db (2.6.3-6) unstable; urgency=low


  * Switch triggers to interest-noawait, since they are non-essential for
    the triggering packages (closes: #707129).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Tue, 07 May 2013 20:49:47 +0100

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• diff from 2.6.3-5 to 2.6.3-6 (788 bytes)

man-db (2.6.3-5) unstable; urgency=low


  * Fix trigger handling following cleanup of postinst output.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Tue, 07 May 2013 13:11:47 +0100

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man-db (2.6.3-3) unstable; urgency=low


  * Support parallel builds.
  * Handle incompatible change to option string escaping in less 456
    (closes: #695459).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:18:23 +0000

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man-db (2.6.3-2) unstable; urgency=low


  * Use xz compression for binary packages.
  * Use dh-autoreconf.
  * Link with -Wl,--enable-new-dtags, so that LD_LIBRARY_PATH can be used to
    override our private library directory.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:33:34 +0000

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• diff from 2.6.3-1 to 2.6.3-2 (1.1 KiB)

man-db (2.6.1-2ubuntu1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * Avoid fatal errors when opening a 64-bit GDBM database from a 32-bit
    process (LP: #1001189).
  * Link with -Wl,--enable-new-dtags, so that LD_LIBRARY_PATH can be used to
    override our private library directory.  (This fixes a build failure
    when attempting to build the above change.)
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>   Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:57:21 +0000

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• diff from 2.6.1-2 (in Debian) to 2.6.1-2ubuntu1 (2.0 KiB)

man-db (2.6.3-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream release.
  * Build with V=1 so that tools such as blhc can scan more effectively for
    missing build flags.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:04:24 +0100

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• diff from 2.6.2-1 to 2.6.3-1 (21.5 KiB)

man-db (2.6.2-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream release:
    - Optimise apropos when given many arguments (LP: #927028).
    - apropos prints an error message and returns non-zero when it finds no
      matches (closes: #672661).
    - Avoid fatal errors when opening a 64-bit GDBM database from a 32-bit
      process (LP: #1001189).
  * Configure with --with-xz=xz --with-lzip=lzip.
  * Adjust debian/watch to track .tar.xz releases.
  * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0.
  * Override hardening-no-fortify-functions Lintian warning for
    /usr/bin/manpath, as a false positive.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:56:56 +0100

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man-db (2.6.1-2) unstable; urgency=low


  * Remove unused build-dependency on gettext again.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Sat, 31 Mar 2012 01:17:50 +0100

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• diff from 2.6.1-1 to 2.6.1-2 (536 bytes)

man-db (2.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream release:
    - Translated manual pages are no longer displayed starting with a
      spurious blank line (closes: #628639).
    - Create a cache directory tag, per http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/
      (closes: #637046).
    - Alphabetise "SEE ALSO" references and remove trailing full stops, per
      man-pages(7) (closes: #651482).
    - Update German manual page translations (closes: #494066, #596104,
      #624096).
  * Install FAQ.
  * Update debian/copyright.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:53:58 +0000

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• diff from 2.6.0.2-3 to 2.6.1-1 (655.1 KiB)

man-db (2.6.0.2-3) unstable; urgency=low


  * Discard stderr from dpkg-query in cron jobs (LP: #783903).
  * Make man-db Multi-Arch: foreign.
  * Upgrade to debhelper v9 and its new arrangements for honouring
    dpkg-buildflags output.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:33:33 +0000

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• diff from 2.6.0.2-2 to 2.6.0.2-3 (1.7 KiB)

man-db (2.6.0.2-2) unstable; urgency=low
  * Add debconf translations:    - Serbian (thanks, Zlatan Todoric; closes: #635062).    - Serbian (Latin) (thanks, Zlatan Todoric; closes: #635063). -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:27:50 +0100

man-db (2.6.0.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Fix a segfault when scanning links to empty pages (closes: #622104).
    - Once we've seen at least one record in a page's NAME section, ignore
      any further records that don't include a whatis description, as they
      tend to be noise.
  * Remove unnecessary .la files (closes: #622443).

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man-db (2.5.9-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add debconf translations:
    - Slovak (thanks, Slavko; closes: #609347).
  * Fix test failure with groff 1.21.
  * Upload to unstable.
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>   Wed,  23 Feb 2011 03:26:42 +0000

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• diff from 2.5.9-3 to 2.5.9-4 (2.2 KiB)

man-db (2.5.9-3) experimental; urgency=low

  * Use 'dh $@ --options' rather than 'dh --options $@', for
    forward-compatibility with debhelper v8.
  * Avoid assertion if no path elements with manpaths were found (closes:
    #608490).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>   Tue,  04 Jan 2011 13:58:15 +0000

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man-db (2.5.9-2) experimental; urgency=low

  * Fix build with 'ld --no-copy-dt-needed-entries'.
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>   Thu,  18 Nov 2010 23:37:24 +0000

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man-db (2.5.9-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Fix test failures on some systems.  A change made in 2.5.8 was overly
      sensitive to directory ordering.

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man-db (2.5.8-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Explicitly set groff's hyphenation language, to ensure that it only
      hyphenates languages it knows about (closes: #570247).
    - Add support for XZ-compressed manual pages, thanks to Darren Salt
      (closes: #572233).
    - Try underscore-separated subpages as well as hyphen-separated ones,
      thanks to Tanguy Ortolo (closes: #574641).
    - Build libman and libmandb as shared libraries, considerably reducing
      executable size.
    - Warnings about unrecognised locales are now suppressed if the
      DPKG_RUNNING_VERSION environment variable is set (i.e. man-db is
      running within a Debian package's maintainer script), since the system
      locales are often out of sync with the C library in that context.
      Thanks to the Debian Perl maintainers for the idea.
    - In catman mode, never try to guess whether a page argument is a
      section, as it's too easy to get this wrong (LP: #664211).
    - mandb should no longer repeatedly rescan manual page hierarchies when
      a whatis entry turns into a broken link.
  * Use a separate build directory, eliminating the requirement to preserve
    some files by hand.
  * Build with external libpipeline.
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>   Tue,  16 Nov 2010 10:13:59 +0000

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man-db (2.5.7-6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Move po/fr.gmo aside during build so that it gets regenerated based on
    translation-fr.patch, and build-depend directly on gettext for this
    (closes: #598066).

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• diff from 2.5.7-4 to 2.5.7-6 (49.6 KiB)

man-db (2.5.7-2ubuntu1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * Backport from trunk:
    - Fix a regression introduced in 2.5.7 when running catman in some
      locales, most notably in the C locale: while converting the output to
      UTF-8, iconv was run after the compressor rather than before it
      (closes: #593350, LP: #615045).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>   Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:55:29 +0100

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man-db (2.5.7-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Backport from trunk:
    - Fix a regression introduced in 2.5.7 when running catman in some
      locales, most notably in the C locale: while converting the output to
      UTF-8, iconv was run after the compressor rather than before it
      (closes: #593350, LP: #615045).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>   Tue,  17 Aug 2010 15:02:31 +0100

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• diff from 2.5.7-3 to 2.5.7-4 (998 bytes)

man-db (2.5.7-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Remove unused build-dependency on gettext.
  * Check for VxID as well as envID in /proc/self/status (closes: #579551).
 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden>   Sun,  09 May 2010 13:57:07 +0100

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• diff from 2.5.7-2 to 2.5.7-3 (827 bytes)

man-db (2.5.7-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add a watch file.
  * Backport from trunk:
    - Fix assertion failure on 'man -l' with an uncompressed page and
      prefixed input (no-hyphenation, no-justification, or a non-English
      page).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>   Tue,  02 Mar 2010 10:28:06 +0000

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man-db (2.5.7-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Make man(1) refer to the "Warnings" node in 'info groff' for a list of
      available warning names (closes: #545805).
    - Don't run tests if cross-compiling.
    - Add option to disable justification (closes: #440047).
    - Do what the user probably means when the full path to an executable is
      given as an argument (closes: #505465).
    - Search man<sec><ext> directories in the GNU layout (closes: #519807).
    - Prefer getting a page from the best manual section over getting a page
      in the correct language; I have my reservations about this, but it
      seems to be what people are requesting (closes: #519547).
    - 'man -f' and 'man -k' now pass through any -s option to apropos/whatis
      respectively.
    - All programs now support a MAN_DEBUG environment variable which can be
      used in place of the -d/--debug option. This is useful in some
      situations where a program is being called deep in a process tree.
    - Fix off-by-one error when write returns EAGAIN (thanks, Samuel
      Thibault; closes: #564818).
    - "%s: nothing appropriate." is an error; write it to stderr, not stdout
      (closes: #565255).
    - Don't bother printing error messages for SIGINT and SIGQUIT, since
      these correspond to explicit user actions (closes: #568000).
    - Fix sense of directory check while decompressing (closes: #537434).
    - Always save cat pages in UTF-8 (closes: #446741).
  * Convert to source format 3.0 (quilt).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>   Wed,  17 Feb 2010 09:37:28 +0000

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man-db (2.5.6-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Remove Ubuntu buildd hack now that the Ubuntu buildd chroots preseed
    man-db/auto-update=false (thanks, LaMont Jones).
  * Backport from trunk:
    - Handle iconv errors when attempting to convert the last input encoding
      to UTF-8 (closes: #562503).
  * Unless we're cross-compiling, get dh_installman to use the version of
    man we just built.
 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden>   Mon,  18 Jan 2010 07:31:54 +0000

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man-db (2.5.6-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Backport from trunk:
    - If the locale encoding is ASCII, then use the ascii device even if
      preconv is available; it will do a better job than producing UTF-8
      output and then recoding that to ASCII (closes: #547695).
    - Include <unistd.h> in src/encodings.c for dup and STDIN_FILENO
      (closes: #553623).
    - When invoking col, ensure that LC_CTYPE is set to an appropriate
      locale for the selected character set (closes: #555331).
  * Add man-db/auto-update debconf template, which may be preseeded to false
    to disable rebuilding the database when man-db is triggered (closes:
    #554914).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>   Tue,  10 Nov 2009 15:40:21 +0000

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man-db (2.5.6-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Don't try to change I/O priority in an OpenVZ container (closes:
    #546680). Approach borrowed from virt-what.
  * Backport from trunk:
    - When a source pipeline dies, make sure to drain its output before
      discarding its output file descriptor (closes: #548153).
 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden>   Thu,  05 Nov 2009 10:39:36 +0000

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man-db (2.5.6-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Don't try to change I/O priority in a vserver (closes: #544999).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>   Mon,  07 Sep 2009 11:16:06 +0100

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man-db (2.5.6-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Implement 'man -K', which was the last major remaining missing feature
      when comparing man-db with the man package (closes: #135926, LP:
      #390575).
    - Note that the exact rendering of (e.g.) italic text may vary depending
      on the output device (closes: #516808).
    - Don't create unnecessary database directories (closes: #472919).
    - Explicitly state that -P/$PAGER/$MANPAGER identifies a single command
      with no pipes (closes: #363250).
    - Make whatis/apropos only display any given manual page, or pointers to
      it, once (LP: #27113).
    - Map CP1251 encoding to LESSCHARSET=windows, per less(1) (closes:
      #539690).
    - Loop through semicolon-separated coding tags in the first line of
      manual pages, and convert Emacs coding tags to ones that libiconv
      understands (closes: #496604).
    - Convert text to UTF-8 and then (if necessary) to the target encoding.
      This allows us to distinguish between "text not in input encoding" and
      "characters not representable in output encoding" (closes: #514963).
    - Replace database entries if the mtime of the new data is newer than
      that of the old data, even if the new data represents a symlink rather
      than a regular file (closes: #490582).
    - Increase limit on NAME sections from 2048 bytes to 8192, since some
      pages exceeding the previous limit have been observed in the wild
      (closes: #489907).
    - Cope with some more cases of database corruption (closes: #187750).
    - By default, man will now try to interpret pairs of manual page names
      given on the command line as equivalent to a single manual page name
      containing a hyphen (e.g. 'man foo bar' => foo-bar(1)). This supports
      the common pattern of programs that implement a number of subcommands,
      allowing them to provide manual pages for each that can be accessed
      using similar syntax as would be used to invoke the subcommands
      themselves.
  * Upgrade to debhelper v7.
  * Reverse the direction of the man and mandb symlinks, and migrate any
    statoverrides referring to the old locations in /usr/lib/man-db/.
  * Run cron jobs at idle I/O priority if dpkg 1.15.0 or newer is installed
    (closes: #448400).
  * Policy version 3.8.2: no changes required.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>   Wed,  26 Aug 2009 17:16:19 +0100

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man-db (2.5.5-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Use dh_lintian.
  * Fix locale_macros groff version test not to think that 1.20.1 >= 1.20.2.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>   Mon,  20 Jul 2009 23:23:55 +0100

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• diff from 2.5.5-2 to 2.5.5-3 (887 bytes)

man-db (2.5.5-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Run the (as yet rather small) test suite on build.
  * Build-depend on po4a (closes: #530897).

 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden>   Mon,  01 Jun 2009 10:44:22 +0100

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• diff from 2.5.5-1build1 to 2.5.5-2 (679 bytes)

man-db (2.5.5-1build1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * No-change rebuild to fix lpia shared library dependencies.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>   Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:11:24 +0000

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• diff from 2.5.5-1 to 2.5.5-1build1 (298 bytes)

man-db (2.5.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Fix an uninitialised variable when sorting manual page candidates that
      could lead to excessive memory allocation and possible crashes
      (thanks, Dustin Marquess; closes: #519647).
    - man(1): Fix missing backslash in -r default (thanks, Will Day; closes:
      #519162).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>   Mon,  16 Mar 2009 10:21:40 +0000

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man-db (2.5.4-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Backport from trunk:
    - Fix handling of pages that declare a non-default encoding in their
      preprocessor lines. Thanks to Hugo Herbelin for some of the ideas here
      (closes: #519095).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>   Fri,  13 Mar 2009 10:45:51 +0000

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