Changelog
man-db (2.5.0-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Backport from upstream (closes: #446302):
- Fix apropos/whatis segfault with explicitly specified locale.
man-db (2.5.0-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Backport from upstream (closes: #446189):
- Connect up the decompression pipeline in the display_to_stdout case
too.
man-db (2.5.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release.
- Remove /usr/X11R6/man from MANDATORY_MANPATH (closes: #413349).
- man now supports the MANPAGER environment variable, overriding PAGER.
- Resolve ambiguous error message when asking for a nonexistent manual
page that might also be a section name (closes: #421481).
- MANSEC -> MANSECT in German man(1) and catman(8) (closes: #430635).
- Truncate apropos/whatis output to the terminal width by default
(closes: #411721).
- lexgrog now ignores alleged manual page names containing spaces, as
these usually indicate parsing errors or ill-formed NAME sections and
they clutter up apropos output badly.
- Discard stderr from formatting processes when outputting to a pager,
to avoid visual corruption from any error messages (closes: #372939).
- Disallow sectional extensions of alphabetic sections, e.g. n and l
from the default configuration (closes: #391977), and sectional
extensions beginning with a digit (closes: #421481).
- Suppress warnings in --quiet mode (closes: #348008, #378428, #411220;
also closes: #334280 since that suggestion is no longer relevant).
- If MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING is set in the environment, don't strip
formatting characters with col (closes: #340673).
- Implement and use a decompression library. This allows cat pages to be
saved in the background while the pager is active (closes: #18452) and
operation with a read-only /tmp (closes: #165499).
- Add a configuration file flag (NOCACHE) to disable cat page caching
(closes: #196642).
- Add output keys to a hashtable, and skip any that have already been
seen (closes: #259338).
- Execute system utilities by command name rather than by full path
(closes: #385651).
- Add apropos -a/--and option to display only items matching all
keywords (closes: #259340).
- Adjust Finnish translation of "No manual entry for %s"
(closes: #320108).
- Create and use databases for non-English manual hierarchies
(closes: #29448, #281811).
- Improve per-locale directory handling. Directories such as "fr.UTF-8"
may be used for occasions when it is appropriate to specify the
character set but not the country, and so a full locale name is
inconvenient.
- There is a new "manconv" program which can try multiple possible
encodings for a file, thus allowing UTF-8 manual pages to be installed
in any directory even without an explicit encoding declaration.
- Don't escape the hierarchy path while globbing; it isn't necessary and
it causes problems for paths containing metacharacters
(closes: #444187).
* Use new configure options for external programs rather than hardcoding
them in configure.ac.
* Remove code in debian/rules to fiddle manual page paths for Debian,
since the default of $LL.UTF-8 is now reasonable. (An
announcement/discussion about what other Debian packages should do will
be forthcoming shortly.)
* Build-depend on zlib1g-dev so that we use zlib rather than gzip to
decompress gzipped manual pages.
man-db (2.4.4-4) unstable; urgency=low
* Ignore chown failures, though affected systems are buggy and should be
fixed (closes: #432029).
* Apply results of debconf templates and package descriptions review by
debian-l10n-english (closes: #430837).
* Update debconf translations:
- Catalan (thanks, Jordà Polo; closes: #430857).
- Galician (thanks, Jacobo Tarrio; closes: #430861).
- Swedish (thanks, Daniel Nylander; closes: #430869).
- Vietnamese (thanks, Clytie Siddall; closes: #430945).
- Turkish (thanks, Mehmet TURKER; closes: #430910).
- Portuguese (thanks, Miguel Figueiredo; closes: #431119).
- Japanese (thanks, Kenshi Muto; closes: #431183).
- Italian (thanks, Luca Monducci; closes: #431195).
- Czech (thanks, Miroslav Kure; closes: #431282).
- Russian (thanks, Yuri Kozlov; closes: #431290).
- Spanish (thanks, Carlos Valdivia Yagüe; closes: #431416).
- German (thanks, Helge Kreutzmann; closes: #431448).
- French (thanks, Christian Perrier; closes: #431503).
- Polish (thanks, Wojciech Zareba; closes: #431550).
* Add debconf translations:
- Basque (thanks, Piarres Beobide; closes: #430929).
- Tamil (thanks, Tirumurti Vasudevan; closes: #431063).
* Override syntax-error-in-debian-changelog lintian warning. I'm not going
to edit history from over eight years ago just for this.
* Don't ignore errors from 'make distclean' other than the Makefile not
existing.
* Drop source-compatibility with woody.
-- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:41:18 +0100
