man-db 2.6.1
This is mainly a bug-fix release, but also adds a cache directory tag to
cat directories, adds support for manual pages compressed using Lzip,
and improves compatibility with the vim viewdoc plugin.
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Fixes:
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o --with-db=db* and --with-db=ndbm compile again.
o Translated manual pages are no longer displayed starting with a
spurious blank line.
o straycats tries to ensure that col is invoked with LC_CTYPE set to
a UTF-8 locale.
o Fix double-free in mandb when encountering a symlink outside the
manual hierarchy, thanks to Peter Schiffer.
Improvements:
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o mandb creates a cache directory tag, per
http://
Standard").
o Add support for Lzip-compressed manual pages, thanks to Matias A.
Fonzo.
o Running 'man -w' (with a new --path alias) without a name now
prints the manpath, for compatibility with other man
implementations. The vim viewdoc plugin makes use of this.
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