Change log for man2html package in Ubuntu

man2html (1.6g-16) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Add 042-man2html-CVE-2021-40647.patch to make manidx_need() function
    always allocate at least the required amount of memory. This fixes
    a crash occurring on a crafted file (closes: #1021738, CVE-2021-40647).
  * Add 043-man2html-fix-asan-issues.patch to fix some issues found by
    AddressSanitizer.
  * debian/rules: support building package with AddressSanitizer when
    'asan' keyword is found in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.

 -- Robert Luberda <email address hidden>  Fri, 02 Feb 2024 00:05:41 +0100

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• diff from 1.6g-15 to 1.6g-16 (2.6 KiB)

man2html (1.6g-15) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Debian Janitor ]
  * Update lintian override info to new format on line 2.
  * Update standards version to 4.6.1, no changes needed.

  [ Damyan Ivanov ]
  * Use 'command -v' instead of 'which' in cron.weekly job (closes: #993740).

  [ Robert Luberda ]
  * Add Romanian debconf templates translation of man2html (closes: #1032686).
  * Add 040-Polish-hman.1-manpage.patch and 041-Polish-man2html.1-manpage.patch
    with Polish translations of man pages (closes: #983626, #983627).
  * Use 'command -v' in man2html.{postinst,config} scripts as well.
  * Standards-Version: 4.6.2 (no changes).

 -- Robert Luberda <email address hidden>  Sun, 14 Jan 2024 12:41:16 +0100

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• diff from 1.6g-14 to 1.6g-15 (10.8 KiB)

man2html (1.6g-14) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Update 037-man2html-Nm-and-Bk-mdoc.patch to fix small regression
    caused by changes in .Bk macro (closes: #902606), and to fix
    handling of .Nm containing punctation-only argument.

 -- Robert Luberda <email address hidden>  Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:32:55 +0100

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• diff from 1.6g-13 to 1.6g-14 (1.7 KiB)

man2html (1.6g-13) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Add the following patches:
    + 037-man2html-Nm-and-Bk-mdoc.patch to ensure that .Nm mdoc macro
      properly remembers command name, and .Bk ignores -word option
      (closes: #902606);
   + 038-man2html-colon-escape-sequence.patch to handle '\:' sequence
     in the same way as '\%' is handled, i.e. by replacing it with an
     empty string (closes: #922704);
   + 039-hman-sensible-browser-by-default.patch to fix 'executable
     rejected due to location or path' lynx error by using
     sensible-browser instead of lynx by default (closes: 963031).
     Add a NEWS entry about how to reenable lynxcgi in hman.
  * man2html.cgi.c: refactor trim_compress_suffix method to get rid
    of gcc warning.
  * Bump debhelper's compat version to 13.
  * Convert national encoding of debian/po/*.po files to UTF-8 (lintian).
  * Standards-Version: 4.5.1.

 -- Robert Luberda <email address hidden>  Sun, 20 Dec 2020 16:43:53 +0100

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• diff from 1.6g-12 to 1.6g-13 (8.1 KiB)

man2html (1.6g-12) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Ondřej Nový ]
  * d/control: Set Vcs-* to salsa.debian.org

  [ Robert Luberda ]
  * Switch to debhelper v12.
  * Document in both README.Debian, and the package's description that
    installation of man2html might require enabling of CGI module of HTTP
    server manually (closes: #798931, #804204, LP: #1271032).
    This documentation is based on recent Osamu Aoki's work for dwww package.
  * Restrict access to localhost only when running on apache2. Document
    this change in README.Debian, and in debian/NEWS.
  * man2html.cgi.c:
    + fix determining what is section name vs. man page name, so that it is
       now possible to find 7z(1) man page;
    + do not restrict section names to two chars only, to properly show
      man pages for example from section 1posix.
  * manwhatis.c:
    + make sure generated links include the whole section name, instead of
      only its first character;
    + switch generated links to 'section+man page' order to match to the
      links produced by man2html itself.
  * Update 010-aux-debian.patch with correct link to swish++ home page.
  * mansearch: use https for links to debian.org sites.
  * debian/control:
    + depend on sensible-utils instead of debianutils (lintian);
    + remove outdated 'Breaks' and 'Replaces';
    + Standards-Version: 4.4.0.

 -- Robert Luberda <email address hidden>  Sat, 03 Aug 2019 16:17:05 +0200

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• diff from 1.6g-11 to 1.6g-12 (4.6 KiB)

man2html (1.6g-11) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Mark man2html-base Multi-Arch: foreign (closes: #889755).
    Thanks to Helmut Grohne for the patch.
  * manwhatis.c: Fix gcc warning by checking result of fgets() call.

 -- Robert Luberda <email address hidden>  Sat, 10 Feb 2018 15:52:16 +0100

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• diff from 1.6g-9ubuntu1 (in Ubuntu) to 1.6g-11 (3.8 KiB)

man2html (1.6g-9ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * debian/control: depend on/suggest lynx instead of the deprecated lynx-cur
    transitional package.

 -- Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak <email address hidden>  Fri, 15 Dec 2017 09:28:48 +0100

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• diff from 1.6g-9 (in Debian) to 1.6g-9ubuntu1 (836 bytes)

man2html (1.6g-9) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Add 036-fix-tbl-font-parsing.patch not to ignore the tbl header end
    while parsing tbl font specifiers what caused man2html to hang on
    printf(1posix) man page (LP: #1666067)
  * man2html.cgi.c: fix a small typo found by lintian.
  * debian/copyright:
    + add Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser fields;
    + bump Standards-Version to 3.9.8 (no changes).

 -- Robert Luberda <email address hidden>  Wed, 19 Apr 2017 22:54:48 +0200

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• diff from 1.6g-8 to 1.6g-9 (1.6 KiB)

man2html (1.6g-8) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Add 035-source-date-epoch.patch to produce reproducible timestamps in
    documentation (closes: #796130).
  * Use `which index++' instead of checking the full /usr/bin/index++
    path to fix lintian's `command-with-path-in-maintainer-script'.
  * postinst: Drop old code for /u/s/d/man2html dir to symlink conversion.
  * Standards-Version: 3.9.6 (no changes).

 -- Robert Luberda <email address hidden>  Mon, 26 Oct 2015 00:58:01 +0100

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• diff from 1.6g-7 to 1.6g-8 (2.4 KiB)

man2html (1.6g-7) unstable; urgency=low


  * utils.c: Fix querystring2argv() to create argv in case man2html and
    manwhatis scripts are run on http server (like lighttpd) that fails
    to do it by its own (closes: #729549, #630530, LP: #389582).
  * man2html.cron.weekly: set proper permissions for generated index
    file (closes: #729548).
  * manwhatis.c: Fix format string warnings (closes: #672821).
  * Refresh debian/patches with `gpb pq import; gbp pq export'.
  * Add 034-UTF8-charset.patch: set charset in `Content-type' header
    to UTF-8 (LP: #873102).
  * mansearch, utils.h: set `Content-type' charset to UTF-8 as well.
  * Switch build system to debhelper v9 and its tiny rules file:
    + make sure debian default CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, and LDFLAGS are
      properly handled;
    + add support for cross-compiling;
    + ensure parallel builds work (closes: #653424);
    + enable LFS support (lintian).
  * Standards-Version: 3.9.5 (no changes).

 -- Robert Luberda <email address hidden>  Sun, 17 Nov 2013 23:57:03 +0100

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• diff from 1.6g-6 (in Ubuntu) to 1.6g-7 (22.6 KiB)

man2html (1.6f+repack-1+squeeze1build0.11.04.1) natty-security; urgency=low

  * fake sync from Debian

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• diff from 1.6f+repack-1 (in Ubuntu) to 1.6f+repack-1+squeeze1build0.11.04.1 (1.3 KiB)

man2html (1.6f+repack-1+squeeze1build0.10.10.1) maverick-security; urgency=low

  * fake sync from Debian

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• diff from 1.6f+repack-1 (in Ubuntu) to 1.6f+repack-1+squeeze1build0.10.10.1 (1.3 KiB)

man2html (1.6f-3+lenny1build0.10.04.1) lucid-security; urgency=low

  * fake sync from Debian

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• diff from 1.6f-3 (in Ubuntu) to 1.6f-3+lenny1build0.10.04.1 (1.2 KiB)

man2html (1.6g-6) unstable; urgency=high

  * man2html.cgi.c: Validate user input and make some error messages less
    verbose to prevent XSS attacks (CVE-2011-2770).
 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden>   Mon,  07 Nov 2011 10:04:18 +0000

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• diff from 1.6g-5 to 1.6g-6 (1.1 KiB)

man2html (1.6g-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * man2html.postinst: Convert the /u/s/d/man2html directory into a symlink
    pointing to man2html-base (closes: #616594).
  * man2html.doc-base: Register html files from man2html-base, not man2html.
  * man2html.cgi.c: Check result of pipe() call.

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• diff from 1.6f+repack-1 to 1.6g-5 (32.0 KiB)

man2html (1.6f+repack-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Remove misleading message from postinst (closes: #582115).
  * Standards-Version: 3.8.4
  * Add short descriptions for all patches (lintian).

  * Switch to the 3.0 (quilt) source format:
    + no longer use dbs (closes: #576055);
    + rebuild the original source tarball;
    + remove Readme.source file.
  * Bump debhelper to v7.
 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden>   Mon,  14 Jun 2010 09:49:34 +0100

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• diff from 1.6f-3 to 1.6f+repack-1 (502.3 KiB)

man2html (1.6f-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * 031-man2html-BR-empty-line.patch: new patch to ignore font change 
    requests that are note followed by any words (closes: #489181).
  * 032-man2html-man-remove-LO-lines: remove `.LO 1' (lintian).
  * Rename debian/README.build to debian/README.source.
  * Standards-Version: 3.8.0.

 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden>   Wed,  05 Nov 2008 10:40:20 +0000

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• diff from 1.6f-2 to 1.6f-3 (2.8 KiB)

man2html (1.6f-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Change doc-base section to Help.
  * Build with debhelper v6.
  * Remove override file for linda.
  * Add copyright notice (lintian).

man2html (1.6e-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix package description (closes: #427901).
  * Remove unecessary redirection to /dev/null in debian/prerm.

 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden>   Tue,  23 Oct 2007 17:41:24 +0100

man2html (1.6e-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Upload to unstable.
  * Problem with parsing tables has been fixed by upstream (closes: #385158).
  * 023-man2html-double-quotes (new): properly decode double quotes inside the
    quoted text (closes: #406098).
  * 024-man2html-uncompress (new):
     + add support for uncompressing gzipped man pages;
     + if the requested page does not exist, try to serve gzipped one
       instead (closes: #418771).
  * 025-man2html-macro-all-args (new): handle \$* and \$@ escapes.
  * 026-man2html-macro-longname (new): support macro names longer than two
    chars (closes: #408232).
  * 027-man2html-macro-priority (new): parse user-defined macros before the
    global ones (closes: #5587).
  * 028-man2html-segfault (new): fix segfault when viewing groff(7) page.
  * 029-man2html-new-macros (new): handle \[xx] escapes and add a few commonly
    used char/string definitions.
  * 017-man2html.seealso (updated): fix comments in man2html(1) page.

man2html (1.6c-6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Initial Galician translation of debconf templates (closes: #412522).

man2html (1.6c-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Initial Italian translation of man2html debconf messages (closes: #358161).
  * Recode the French man page into ISO-8859-1 (closes: #363383).
  * 021-man2html-perl-modules: Add support for Perl modules (closes: #363384)
    Thanks to Nicolas François for the patch.

man2html (1.6-3) unstable; urgency=low


  * Initial Swedish translation of man2html debconf messages (closes: #331555).
  * Minor correction in mansearch output.
  * Add linda overrides file for 'non-standard-dir-perm' warning.

 -- Robert Luberda <email address hidden>  Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:59:17 +0200

man2html (1.5p-4) unstable; urgency=low


  * Recommend httpd-cgi instead of httpd (closes: #43271).
  * Fix typo in German translation of debconf templates (closes: #313793).
  * Updated Vietanamese translation of templates (closes: #312748).
  * Update debhelper build-dependency to have menu file moved to /usr/share.

 -- Robert Luberda <email address hidden>  Thu, 16 Jun 2005 23:24:57 +0200

man2html (1.5n-2) unstable; urgency=low


  * mansearch: encode returned URLs.

 -- Robert Luberda <email address hidden>  Sun,  8 Aug 2004 18:50:23 +0200

man2html (1.5k-10) unstable; urgency=low


  * debian/sources/man2html.cgi.c: print the Last-modified header. 
    Thanks to Daniel Poelzleithner <email address hidden> for the patch
    (closes: #240119).

 -- Robert Luberda <email address hidden>  Sat, 27 Mar 2004 21:46:13 +0100