man-db 2.5.1
This release fixes a number of bugs with the improved localisation
support added in 2.5.0, and adds options to help distribution packaging
helper tools to convert manual pages to UTF-8 and to validate them using
stricter groff warning modes.
The build system has been extensively overhauled, converting to Automake
and Gnulib for improved portability.
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Fixes:
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o The manual is now built automatically, avoiding some ordering
problems on 'make distclean'.
o Manual pages are converted to the proper input encoding for troff
output as well as nroff output.
o The -t, -T, -X, and -Z options to man work again; in 2.5.0, they
read input from stdin rather than from the manual page.
o apropos and whatis no longer segfault when given an explicit
locale using -L.
o man now understands that groff's ascii device takes ASCII input,
not ISO-8859-1.
o man no longer discards stderr when writing to a file or a pipe;
this was broken by an overenthusiastic change in 2.5.0.
o manconv now falls back to the next encoding in its list if any
characters in an entire 64KB block fail to decode using the
current encoding, as was originally intended.
o manconv is more careful about extracting coding: directives from
manual pages.
o Ctrl-C and Ctrl-\ now work again at the prompt issued by 'man -a'.
Improvements:
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o There is a new --with-sections configure option to change the
default value of SECTION in the configuration file.
o Automake is now used to generate Makefiles. Among other things,
this fixes VPATH builds and some bugs in dependency generation,
and should allow building with non-GNU versions of make.
o man-db now uses the Gnulib portability library, allowing the
removal of earlier haphazard portability code. While this results
in a somewhat larger source distribution, it makes man-db easier
to maintain and should make it easier to build on systems to which
the maintainer does not have access.
o In the process of switching to Gnulib, the last vestiges of
pre-C89 support have been removed; they were documented to be
broken anyway.
o If the MANROFFOPT environment variable is set, man now appends its
value to the *roff command line.
o man now accepts a --recode option to output a source manual page
converted to a specified encoding.
o For compatibility with System V, man accepts -s as an alias for
-S, and permits sections to be comma-separated as well as
colon-separated.
o All programs, except the obsolete 'wrapper', now accept a --debug
option. (accessdb, lexgrog, and zsoelim were lacking it.)
o man now accepts a --warnings option to enable groff warnings.
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