Changelog
man-db (2.5.3-1) experimental; urgency=low
* New upstream release.
- Cleaned up a number of possible crashes, memory leaks, and missing
error checks found by the Coverity Scan project.
- The LANGUAGE environment variable is now tokenised properly, rather
than only taking the first two characters of each element.
- man now correctly propagates the exit code of whatis or apropos when
called with the -f or -k option respectively (closes: #477305).
- Fix several manual page synopsis problems (thanks, Yuri Kozlov;
closes: #480678, #481226, #482424, #482791, #482792, #482810, #483589,
#483862, #483951).
- Reduce the number of warnings emitted when using an unrecognised
locale (closes: #494989).
- manconv and zsoelim are now called internally rather than by executing
external programs, to improve performance.
- Manual pages may now be compressed with LZMA (although this is
probably only worth it for very large pages).
- Duplicate manual page hierarchies due to symlinks (e.g. /usr/man ->
/usr/share/man) are detected and removed from the search order.
- A locale modifier (e.g. @latin) in a directory name must now match the
locale if the former is set, in addition to the language and
territory.
- Bare .so includes (e.g. ".so foo.1" rather than ".so man1/foo.1") now
work, although only within the same manual page hierarchy for now
(partially fixes #503472).
* Add Homepage field.
* Policy version 3.8.0: no changes required.
* Pass CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to configure rather than make so that we don't
have to keep up with the set of warnings that configure decides to
enable.
-- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:48:32 +0000
