Changelog
man-db (2.6.0.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release:
- Fix a segfault when scanning links to empty pages (closes: #622104).
- Once we've seen at least one record in a page's NAME section, ignore
any further records that don't include a whatis description, as they
tend to be noise.
* Remove unnecessary .la files (closes: #622443).
man-db (2.6.0.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release, fixing test failures in 2.6.0 (closes: #621867):
- Ensure that the target of a symlink or .so chain is always recorded as
a real page.
- Read a user-specified configuration file even if HOME is unset.
man-db (2.6.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release:
- Search the full manpath when expanding .so directives in manual pages.
As part of this, '.so name.1' should now work as well as '.so
man1/name.1' (closes: #503472, LP: #411534).
- Handle roff named glyphs and perldoc strings in NAME sections (closes:
#601025).
- Don't start a pager if stdout is not a tty.
- Allow passing multiple sections to whatis and apropos (closes:
#571285).
- Provide byte positions in manconv errors (closes: #562789).
- Make mandb error output neater when stderr is not a tty.
- Fix failure to display manual pages in some encodings when installed
setuid.
- Don't ignore SIGPIPE while forking iconv (closes: #597756).
- Remove obsolete subdirectories of cat directories (closes: #558804).
- If mandb sees that A is a symlink to B, it should never store a whatis
reference for B (closes: #204249).
- Print commas in roman rather than bold (thanks, David Prévot; closes:
#600002).
- Consider .PD requests as paragraph breaks (closes: #611012).
- Reset SIGPIPE to SIG_DFL on startup, to avoid noisy output in the
event that mandb was started from a context where SIGPIPE was ignored.
- SECTION entries in a user configuration file now override those in the
system configuration file, rather than appending to them.
- If the user asked for an explicit section, sort exact matches first.
- Rewrite all remaining subprocess handling in terms of libpipeline,
especially some crash-prone code in catman (LP: #27738).
- The default less prompt now includes "(press h for help or q to quit)"
to help novices find their way around
(http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/25975).
- Fix a segfault when 'man -K' tries to display certain pages.
- Fix a segfault in some situations when processes are killed by SIGHUP,
SIGINT, or SIGTERM (LP: #218336).
* Avoid unnecessary metadata writes to /var/cache/man when doing recursive
chown (thanks, Iustin Pop; closes: #619726).
-- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden> Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:16:26 +0000
