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+man-db (2.8.5-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Remove redundant condition in cron.daily script (closes: #918967).
+  * Update Homepage and debian/copyright Source to use HTTPS.
+  * Add --quiet to systemd mandb invocation (closes: #920628).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 10 Feb 2019 12:14:20 +0000
+
+man-db (2.8.5-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New upstream release.
+    - Fix handling of \- in RHS of NAME section (closes: #913351).
+    - Fix incorrect error message (closes: #913721).
+    - Ship a systemd timer for daily DB maintenance (closes: #858022).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 06 Jan 2019 09:53:43 +0000
+
+man-db (2.8.4-3) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Remove dh_builddeb override to use xz compression; this has been the
+    default since dpkg 1.17.0.
+  * Stop building with V=1; debhelper configures with --disable-silent-rules
+    as of 9.20150501.
+  * AppArmor:
+    - Allow man to talk to Unix sockets, so that it can spawn X-based
+      subprocesses.
+    - Fix syntax to allow sending signals to related profiles.
+    - Allow sending signals to the same profile.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:01:42 +0000
+
+man-db (2.8.4-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Dimitri John Ledkov ]
+  * Adapt apparmor profile for usrmerge. LP: #1784023
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 30 Jul 2018 14:41:37 +0100
+
+man-db (2.8.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New upstream release:
+    - Check for mandb_nfmt and mandb_tfmt in the manual page hierarchy as
+      documented, not in the current directory (closes: #901007).
+  * Remove long-obsolete Conflicts on suidmanager.
+  * Adjust git-dpm tagging configuration.
+  * Explicitly declare "Rules-Requires-Root: binary-targets" (due to
+    installing /var/cache/man with ownership man:man).
+  * Remove syntax-error-in-debian-changelog Lintian override;
+    Parse::DebianChangelog seems to have got smarter about detecting old
+    changelog formats since I added that.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Fri, 27 Jul 2018 12:31:12 +0100
+
+man-db (2.8.3-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * AppArmor: Allow man_filter to read from anywhere, since there are no
+    real restrictions on where manual page files may be, and the worst this
+    can do is feed data to the invoking man process.
+  * AppArmor: Allow man and its related profiles to exchange signals.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sat, 07 Apr 2018 12:15:33 +0100
+
+man-db (2.8.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New upstream release:
+    - sandbox: Allow kill and tgkill unconditionally (closes: #892309).
+    - sandbox: Allow sibling architectures on x86/x86_64/x32 (closes:
+      #891267).
+    - man: Only change directory in child processes (closes: #894792).
+  * Switch debian/watch to HTTPS.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Thu, 05 Apr 2018 13:09:43 +0100
+
+man-db (2.8.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New upstream release:
+    - sandbox: Work around snoopy (closes: #890861).
+    - sandbox: Handle qemu-user returning EFAULT (closes: #891109).
+  * Use HTTPS form of copyright-format URL.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:04:14 +0000
+
+man-db (2.8.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New upstream release.
+  * Use stacked profiles for subprocesses so that AppArmor realises that
+    they constitute a reduction in privileges and allows the transition even
+    after a seccomp filter has been installed.
+  * Build with seccomp again, now that it works in conjunction with
+    AppArmor.
+  * Breaks/Replaces manpages-tr (<< 1.0.5.1-3) (closes: #889805).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Fri, 09 Feb 2018 13:32:41 +0000
+
+man-db (2.8.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Build without seccomp for now, until I work out how to make it play well
+    with AppArmor on recent kernels (closes: #889608, #889626).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 05 Feb 2018 10:09:57 +0000
+
+man-db (2.8.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Colin Watson ]
+  * New upstream release:
+    - If man adds prefixes to a page to handle such things as disabling
+      hyphenation, then take account of those when looking for a
+      preprocessor line at the start of the page (closes: #867857).
+    - Confine most subprocesses that handle untrusted data using seccomp
+      (closes: #877199).
+  * Move VCS to salsa.debian.org.
+
+  [ Benjamin Drung ]
+  * Fix malformed debian/changelog entry (closes: #886649).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 04 Feb 2018 17:25:58 +0000
+
+man-db (2.7.6.1-4) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Add missing AppArmor lock access.
+  * Recent kernels revalidate open FDs, and there are often some still open
+    on TTYs.  Temporarily add <abstractions/consoles> to AppArmor groff and
+    filter child profiles until we have a chance to teach man to close
+    irrelevant open FDs before execve (closes: #882405).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 22 Nov 2017 12:41:37 +0000
+
+man-db (2.7.6.1-3) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Add a simple AppArmor profile to confine groff-related programs,
+    decompressors, and other filters when run from man.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 21 Nov 2017 11:46:44 +0000
+
+man-db (2.7.6.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Fix locale macro loading for Chinese.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:10:25 +0000
+
+man-db (2.7.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New upstream release:
+    - Don't chmod CACHEDIR.TAG if it doesn't exist (closes: #847810).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 12 Dec 2016 12:51:57 +0000
+
+man-db (2.7.6-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New upstream release:
+    - Note that "man -K" searches page source (closes: #813665).
+    - SECURITY: Eliminate dangerous setgid-root directories.
+    - man now understands the <page>.<section> form on its command line, so
+      for example 'man chmod.2' is now the same as 'man 2 chmod'.
+  * Adjust various bits of packaging to account for changed ownership and
+    permissions of /usr/bin/man, /usr/bin/mandb, and /var/cache/man.
+  * CVE-2015-1336: Remove recursive chown of /var/cache/man from cron.daily
+    job, which introduced a vulnerability and is no longer needed now that
+    man-db is more careful about ensuring appropriate ownership of its cache
+    files (closes: #840357, LP: #1482786).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 11 Dec 2016 16:27:19 +0000
+
+man-db (2.7.5-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Update Vcs-Browser URL for alioth cgit.
+  * Use HTTPS for Vcs-Git URL.
+  * Display pages from section 3am after section 2 (closes: #838759).
+  * Policy version 3.9.8: no changes required.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 20 Nov 2016 19:52:51 +0000
+
+man-db (2.7.5-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New upstream release:
+    - Adjust line number when inserting extra roff input (closes: #789219).
+    - Disable roff input insertion with --recode (closes: #751795).
+    - Build text manual with LC_ALL=C, to help reproducible builds.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Fri, 06 Nov 2015 15:56:41 +0000
+
+man-db (2.7.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New upstream release:
+    - man: Exit 3 if formatter exits non-zero (closes: #801261).
+    - man: Honour MANWIDTH in conjunction with -Z (closes: #801241).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Thu, 08 Oct 2015 02:42:14 +0100
+
+man-db (2.7.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New upstream release:
+    - Rewrite CACHEDIR.TAG and databases if they cannot be read (closes:
+      #797019).
+    - Squeeze blank lines internally instead of pager -s (closes: #796584).
+    - Restore the ability to use 'man -a' noninteractively (closes:
+      #798094).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 09 Sep 2015 16:56:42 +0100
+
+man-db (2.7.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New upstream release:
+    - Stop storing the database handle in a global variable (LP: #1304261).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 16 Aug 2015 17:30:19 +0100
+
+man-db (2.7.1-2) experimental; urgency=medium
+
+  * Drop real IDs before effective IDs, for non-Linux compatibility (closes:
+    #772597).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:59:31 +0000
+
+man-db (2.7.1-1) experimental; urgency=medium
+
+  * New upstream release:
+    - Make man run correctly from a deleted directory (closes: #764384).
+    - Send 'man -a' prompts to /dev/tty (closes: #766113).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Fri, 07 Nov 2014 16:47:46 +0000
+
+man-db (2.7.0.2-5) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Drop real IDs before effective IDs, for non-Linux compatibility (closes:
+    #772597).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:40:13 +0000
+
+man-db (2.7.0.2-4) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Backport Danish and French translation updates from upstream (closes:
+    #771367).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Fri, 05 Dec 2014 16:23:07 +0000
+
+man-db (2.7.0.2-3) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Policy version 3.9.6: no changes required.
+  * Assume that dpkg-statoverride exists and drop the test for an obsolete
+    compatibility path.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 03 Nov 2014 20:26:39 +0000
+
+man-db (2.7.0.2-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Remove /var/lib/man-db/auto-update on purge.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:09:07 +0100
+
+man-db (2.7.0.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New upstream release:
+    - Be more careful to avoid using or double-closing closed database
+      handles.  Fixes test suite failures on some systems.
+    - Patch the fdutimens function imported from Gnulib to work around a
+      libc bug in GNU/Hurd.
+  * Stop removing /usr/bin/man and /usr/bin/mandb on prerm remove, as those
+    symlinks are shipped in the package nowadays (thanks, Sven Joachim;
+    closes: #762704).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 28 Sep 2014 00:37:40 +0100
+
+man-db (2.7.0.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New upstream release:
+    - Fix test suite in the case where the system supports high-precision
+      timestamps but the file system containing the build directory does
+      not.
+  * Ensure that /var/cache/man exists when triggered (LP: #1351795).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 24 Sep 2014 02:23:08 +0100
+
+man-db (2.7.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New upstream release:
+    - Add systemd tmpfiles snippet to clean up old cat files after a week.
+    - Run "col -b -p -x" over cat pages if possible before parsing them
+      (closes: #751934).
+    - Move database mtime out of the database into file metadata, making the
+      database reproducible between installations (closes: #760895).
+    - Use high-precision timestamps.
+    - Order files by first physical extent before reading (closes: #574410).
+    - Prioritise COLUMNS above TIOCGWINSZ (LP: #1315282).
+    - Formatting improvements to man(1) (closes: #726266).
+    - Don't use pointed-to name as title for database-located pages (closes:
+      #709405).
+    - Move zsoelim to /usr/lib/man-db/.
+  * Remove unnecessary entries from debian/dirs.
+  * Cache the value of man-db/auto-update in the file system, so that we
+    don't have to talk to debconf when processing triggers (closes:
+    #579075).
+  * Add MIME handlers (thanks, Kevin Ryde; closes: #725157).
+  * Override the long-standing Lintian warning for non-standard-dir-perm on
+    /var/cache/man.
+  * Adjust cron.daily to skip cat file cleanup if running under systemd,
+    since the upstream-provided tmpfiles snippet now handles that.
+  * Rebuild the database on upgrade to this version, since the format has
+    changed.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:43:40 +0100
+
+man-db (2.6.7.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Add OpenPGP signature checking configuration to watch file.
+  * New upstream release.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Thu, 10 Apr 2014 03:43:39 +0100
+
+man-db (2.6.6-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New upstream release:
+    - Reimplement 'apropos --and' in a way that works with the optimisations
+      introduced in 2.6.2 (closes: #678670).
+    - Clarify that whatis displays one-line descriptions, rather than e.g.
+      the contents of DESCRIPTION sections (closes: #713992).
+    - Downgrade EAGAIN/EWOULDBLOCK errors from attempts to open a database
+      read-write to debug messages (closes: #684235).
+  * Switch to git (thanks to reposurgeon for helping with the tricky
+    stitching involved); adjust Vcs-* fields.
+  * Policy version 3.9.5: no changes required.
+  * Set VERBOSE=1 when running tests so that Automake will print test logs
+    on failure.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:49:44 +0000
+
+man-db (2.6.5-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Drop obsolete dpkg version check in cron jobs; the version in question
+    predates oldstable, and man-db pre-depends on a newer version anyway
+    (closes: #731687).
+  * Silence errors caused by cron.daily racing with mandb (closes: #734063).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Fri, 03 Jan 2014 12:45:10 +0000
+
+man-db (2.6.5-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Backport from trunk:
+    - Attempt fallback locales even if /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED exists.
+      (It may exist but none of the UTF-8 locales mentioned it in may be
+      present; nevertheless, C.UTF-8 may be available.)
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Fri, 28 Jun 2013 06:18:32 +0100
+
+man-db (2.6.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release:
+    - man's --warnings option works again on systems with versions of groff
+      that support it (broken in 2.6.4).  This broke Lintian's test suite.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Thu, 27 Jun 2013 11:59:34 +0100
+
+man-db (2.6.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release:
+    - Document default section list in manual pages (closes: #611007).
+    - Quieten most warnings from compiling Gnulib (closes: #668429).
+    - The MANLESS environment variable is now treated as if it were a
+      default value for the -r option to man: occurrences of the text
+      "$MAN_PN" are expanded, and explicitly using the -r option overrides
+      the default (closes: #690831).
+  * Use 'set -e' rather than '#! /bin/sh -e' in maintainer scripts.
+  * Remove maintainer script support for direct upgrades from pre-etch
+    (three releases before current stable).
+  * Breaks/Replaces manpages-zh (<< 1.5.2-1.1); man-db now ships zh_CN
+    translations formerly included there.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:34:02 +0100
+
+man-db (2.6.3-7) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Build-depend on debhelper (>= 9~) directly rather than requiring a
+    Lintian override for use of 8.9.0.
+  * Temporarily drop -Werror from AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE options and backport
+    patches to handle the Automake parallel test harness, working around
+    warnings caused by the version of Gnulib currently in use here (closes:
+    #710309).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:43:15 +0100
+
+man-db (2.6.3-6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Switch triggers to interest-noawait, since they are non-essential for
+    the triggering packages (closes: #707129).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 07 May 2013 20:49:47 +0100
+
+man-db (2.6.3-5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix trigger handling following cleanup of postinst output.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 07 May 2013 13:11:47 +0100
+
+man-db (2.6.3-4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Make postinst output clearer about whether the database is being rebuilt
+    (e.g. due to man-db/auto-update=false).
+  * Drop handling of option string escaping in less 456, since the
+    incompatible change has been reverted upstream (thanks, Geoffrey Thomas;
+    closes: #706916).  I've chosen to drop the Breaks entirely as it's a bit
+    too heavyweight for a relatively minor display bug.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 07 May 2013 09:45:40 +0100
+
+man-db (2.6.3-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Support parallel builds.
+  * Handle incompatible change to option string escaping in less 456
+    (closes: #695459).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:18:23 +0000
+
+man-db (2.6.3-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Use xz compression for binary packages.
+  * Use dh-autoreconf.
+  * Link with -Wl,--enable-new-dtags, so that LD_LIBRARY_PATH can be used to
+    override our private library directory.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:33:34 +0000
+
+man-db (2.6.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release.
+  * Build with V=1 so that tools such as blhc can scan more effectively for
+    missing build flags.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:04:24 +0100
+
+man-db (2.6.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release:
+    - Optimise apropos when given many arguments (LP: #927028).
+    - apropos prints an error message and returns non-zero when it finds no
+      matches (closes: #672661).
+    - Avoid fatal errors when opening a 64-bit GDBM database from a 32-bit
+      process (LP: #1001189).
+  * Configure with --with-xz=xz --with-lzip=lzip.
+  * Adjust debian/watch to track .tar.xz releases.
+  * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0.
+  * Override hardening-no-fortify-functions Lintian warning for
+    /usr/bin/manpath, as a false positive.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:56:56 +0100
+
+man-db (2.6.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Remove unused build-dependency on gettext again.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sat, 31 Mar 2012 01:17:50 +0100
+
+man-db (2.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release:
+    - Translated manual pages are no longer displayed starting with a
+      spurious blank line (closes: #628639).
+    - Create a cache directory tag, per http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/
+      (closes: #637046).
+    - Alphabetise "SEE ALSO" references and remove trailing full stops, per
+      man-pages(7) (closes: #651482).
+    - Update German manual page translations (closes: #494066, #596104,
+      #624096).
+  * Install FAQ.
+  * Update debian/copyright.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:53:58 +0000
+
+man-db (2.6.0.2-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Discard stderr from dpkg-query in cron jobs (LP: #783903).
+  * Make man-db Multi-Arch: foreign.
+  * Upgrade to debhelper v9 and its new arrangements for honouring
+    dpkg-buildflags output.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:33:33 +0000
+
+man-db (2.6.0.2-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Add debconf translations:
+    - Serbian (thanks, Zlatan Todoric; closes: #635062).
+    - Serbian (Latin) (thanks, Zlatan Todoric; closes: #635063).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:27:50 +0100
+
+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).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:27:13 +0100
+
+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.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:09:47 +0100
+
+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).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:59:40 +0100
+
+man-db (2.5.9-4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Add debconf translations:
+    - Slovak (thanks, Slavko; closes: #609347).
+  * Fix test failure with groff 1.21.
+  * Upload to unstable.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:35:20 +0000
+
+man-db (2.5.9-3) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * Use 'dh $@ --options' rather than 'dh --options $@', for
+    forward-compatibility with debhelper v8.
+  * Avoid assertion if no path elements with manpaths were found (closes:
+    #608490).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 03 Jan 2011 01:01:48 +0000
+
+man-db (2.5.9-2) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix build with 'ld --no-copy-dt-needed-entries'.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:00:08 +0000
+
+man-db (2.5.9-1) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release:
+    - Fix test failures on some systems.  A change made in 2.5.8 was overly
+      sensitive to directory ordering.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:00:41 +0000
+
+man-db (2.5.8-2) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * Build-depend on pkg-config.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:55:02 +0000
+
+man-db (2.5.8-1) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release:
+    - Explicitly set groff's hyphenation language, to ensure that it only
+      hyphenates languages it knows about (closes: #570247).
+    - Add support for XZ-compressed manual pages, thanks to Darren Salt
+      (closes: #572233).
+    - Try underscore-separated subpages as well as hyphen-separated ones,
+      thanks to Tanguy Ortolo (closes: #574641).
+    - Build libman and libmandb as shared libraries, considerably reducing
+      executable size.
+    - Warnings about unrecognised locales are now suppressed if the
+      DPKG_RUNNING_VERSION environment variable is set (i.e. man-db is
+      running within a Debian package's maintainer script), since the system
+      locales are often out of sync with the C library in that context.
+      Thanks to the Debian Perl maintainers for the idea.
+    - In catman mode, never try to guess whether a page argument is a
+      section, as it's too easy to get this wrong (LP: #664211).
+    - mandb should no longer repeatedly rescan manual page hierarchies when
+      a whatis entry turns into a broken link.
+  * Use a separate build directory, eliminating the requirement to preserve
+    some files by hand.
+  * Build with external libpipeline.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:03:58 +0000
+
+man-db (2.5.7-6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Move po/fr.gmo aside during build so that it gets regenerated based on
+    translation-fr.patch, and build-depend directly on gettext for this
+    (closes: #598066).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:59:18 +0100
+
+man-db (2.5.7-5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Use CFLAGS and LDFLAGS from hardening-includes, since man and mandb are
+    optionally setuid man.
+  * Update French translation from Translation Project (thanks, David
+    Prévot; closes: #598621).
+  * Make sure that man/po4a/po/* are kept unchanged during a
+    patch/build/clean cycle.
+  * Update French documentation translation from Translation Project
+    (thanks, David Prévot; closes: #598066).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:44:06 +0100
+
+man-db (2.5.7-4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Backport from trunk:
+    - Fix a regression introduced in 2.5.7 when running catman in some
+      locales, most notably in the C locale: while converting the output to
+      UTF-8, iconv was run after the compressor rather than before it
+      (closes: #593350, LP: #615045).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:54:04 +0100
+
+man-db (2.5.7-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Remove unused build-dependency on gettext.
+  * Check for VxID as well as envID in /proc/self/status (closes: #579551).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:06:49 +0100
+
+man-db (2.5.7-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Add a watch file.
+  * Backport from trunk:
+    - Fix assertion failure on 'man -l' with an uncompressed page and
+      prefixed input (no-hyphenation, no-justification, or a non-English
+      page).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:19:25 +0000
+
+man-db (2.5.7-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release:
+    - Make man(1) refer to the "Warnings" node in 'info groff' for a list of
+      available warning names (closes: #545805).
+    - Don't run tests if cross-compiling.
+    - Add option to disable justification (closes: #440047).
+    - Do what the user probably means when the full path to an executable is
+      given as an argument (closes: #505465).
+    - Search man<sec><ext> directories in the GNU layout (closes: #519807).
+    - Prefer getting a page from the best manual section over getting a page
+      in the correct language; I have my reservations about this, but it
+      seems to be what people are requesting (closes: #519547).
+    - 'man -f' and 'man -k' now pass through any -s option to apropos/whatis
+      respectively.
+    - All programs now support a MAN_DEBUG environment variable which can be
+      used in place of the -d/--debug option. This is useful in some
+      situations where a program is being called deep in a process tree.
+    - Fix off-by-one error when write returns EAGAIN (thanks, Samuel
+      Thibault; closes: #564818).
+    - "%s: nothing appropriate." is an error; write it to stderr, not stdout
+      (closes: #565255).
+    - Don't bother printing error messages for SIGINT and SIGQUIT, since
+      these correspond to explicit user actions (closes: #568000).
+    - Fix sense of directory check while decompressing (closes: #537434).
+    - Always save cat pages in UTF-8 (closes: #446741).
+  * Convert to source format 3.0 (quilt).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:56:08 +0000
+
+man-db (2.5.6-5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Remove Ubuntu buildd hack now that the Ubuntu buildd chroots preseed
+    man-db/auto-update=false (thanks, LaMont Jones).
+  * Backport from trunk:
+    - Handle iconv errors when attempting to convert the last input encoding
+      to UTF-8 (closes: #562503).
+  * Unless we're cross-compiling, get dh_installman to use the version of
+    man we just built.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:27:06 +0000
+
+man-db (2.5.6-4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Backport from trunk:
+    - If the locale encoding is ASCII, then use the ascii device even if
+      preconv is available; it will do a better job than producing UTF-8
+      output and then recoding that to ASCII (closes: #547695).
+    - Include <unistd.h> in src/encodings.c for dup and STDIN_FILENO
+      (closes: #553623).
+    - When invoking col, ensure that LC_CTYPE is set to an appropriate
+      locale for the selected character set (closes: #555331).
+  * Add man-db/auto-update debconf template, which may be preseeded to false
+    to disable rebuilding the database when man-db is triggered (closes:
+    #554914).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:58:25 +0000
+
+man-db (2.5.6-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Don't try to change I/O priority in an OpenVZ container (closes:
+    #546680). Approach borrowed from virt-what.
+  * Backport from trunk:
+    - When a source pipeline dies, make sure to drain its output before
+      discarding its output file descriptor (closes: #548153).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:38:56 +0100
+
+man-db (2.5.6-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Don't try to change I/O priority in a vserver (closes: #544999).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:37:01 +0100
+
+man-db (2.5.6-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release:
+    - Implement 'man -K', which was the last major remaining missing feature
+      when comparing man-db with the man package (closes: #135926, LP:
+      #390575).
+    - Note that the exact rendering of (e.g.) italic text may vary depending
+      on the output device (closes: #516808).
+    - Don't create unnecessary database directories (closes: #472919).
+    - Explicitly state that -P/$PAGER/$MANPAGER identifies a single command
+      with no pipes (closes: #363250).
+    - Make whatis/apropos only display any given manual page, or pointers to
+      it, once (LP: #27113).
+    - Map CP1251 encoding to LESSCHARSET=windows, per less(1) (closes:
+      #539690).
+    - Loop through semicolon-separated coding tags in the first line of
+      manual pages, and convert Emacs coding tags to ones that libiconv
+      understands (closes: #496604).
+    - Convert text to UTF-8 and then (if necessary) to the target encoding.
+      This allows us to distinguish between "text not in input encoding" and
+      "characters not representable in output encoding" (closes: #514963).
+    - Replace database entries if the mtime of the new data is newer than
+      that of the old data, even if the new data represents a symlink rather
+      than a regular file (closes: #490582).
+    - Increase limit on NAME sections from 2048 bytes to 8192, since some
+      pages exceeding the previous limit have been observed in the wild
+      (closes: #489907).
+    - Cope with some more cases of database corruption (closes: #187750).
+    - By default, man will now try to interpret pairs of manual page names
+      given on the command line as equivalent to a single manual page name
+      containing a hyphen (e.g. 'man foo bar' => foo-bar(1)). This supports
+      the common pattern of programs that implement a number of subcommands,
+      allowing them to provide manual pages for each that can be accessed
+      using similar syntax as would be used to invoke the subcommands
+      themselves.
+  * Upgrade to debhelper v7.
+  * Reverse the direction of the man and mandb symlinks, and migrate any
+    statoverrides referring to the old locations in /usr/lib/man-db/.
+  * Run cron jobs at idle I/O priority if dpkg 1.15.0 or newer is installed
+    (closes: #448400).
+  * Policy version 3.8.2: no changes required.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:38:46 +0100
+
+man-db (2.5.5-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Use dh_lintian.
+  * Fix locale_macros groff version test not to think that 1.20.1 >= 1.20.2.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:00:03 +0100
+
+man-db (2.5.5-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Run the (as yet rather small) test suite on build.
+  * Build-depend on po4a (closes: #530897).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Thu, 28 May 2009 23:24:33 +0100
+
+man-db (2.5.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release:
+    - Fix an uninitialised variable when sorting manual page candidates that
+      could lead to excessive memory allocation and possible crashes
+      (thanks, Dustin Marquess; closes: #519647).
+    - man(1): Fix missing backslash in -r default (thanks, Will Day; closes:
+      #519162).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:32:45 +0000
+
+man-db (2.5.4-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Backport from trunk:
+    - Fix handling of pages that declare a non-default encoding in their
+      preprocessor lines. Thanks to Hugo Herbelin for some of the ideas here
+      (closes: #519095).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:51:44 +0000
+
+man-db (2.5.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release.
+    - Exit as soon as possible if database writes return ENOSPC (closes:
+      #167159).
+    - Make it possible to override man's default of discarding stderr when
+      stdout is a terminal (closes: #480996).
+    - Reorganise lexgrog to stop on any unrecognised roff request, rather
+      than continuing and often littering the database with garbage (closes:
+      #271402).
+    - Make handling of terminal widths for cat pages configurable (closes:
+      #121997).
+    - Improve sorting and de-duplication of manual page candidates (closes:
+      #389762, #496172).
+    - Consider SO_MAN equivalent to ULT_MAN for the purposes of sorting
+      candidate pages for display (closes: #384301).
+    - Add regular expression and shell wildcard search facilities to man
+      (closes: #461319).
+    - Add option to disable hyphenation (closes: #166701).
+    - Line length is a property of output, not input, so only check whether
+      standard output is a terminal, not also standard input (closes:
+      #512233).
+    - Partially rewrite building of manpath according to locale. The
+      previous code was completely wrong: as well as handling duplicates
+      rather oddly, it effectively handled LANGUAGE in reverse order
+      (closes: #516133).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:41:53 +0000
+
+man-db (2.5.3-3) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * Backport from trunk:
+    - Update manual page search order to permit FHS-compliant installation
+      of packages in /opt. Reported by Matt Domsch.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:37:52 +0000
+
+man-db (2.5.3-2) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * Explicitly configure --with-lzma=lzma.
+  * Increase versioned dependency on groff-base to (>= 1.18.1.1-15) for a
+    working -w option in nroff (closes: #494287).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:23:21 +0000
+
+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 <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:20:59 +0000
+
+man-db (2.5.2-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Backport from trunk:
+    - src/manconv.c (try_iconv): Remove premature optimisation that
+      sometimes caused us to write incomplete output.
+    - src/encodings.c (add_manconv): Always use manconv even if iconv could
+      theoretically do the job, as manconv has slightly more permissive
+      behaviour that is generally more suitable for converting manual page
+      source (closes: #498082).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:31:24 +0100
+
+man-db (2.5.2-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Update DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS parsing code from policy 3.8.0.
+  * Skip building the database on buildds (just Ubuntu buildds for now,
+    since Debian buildds aren't detectable; see the comment in the postinst
+    for more detail).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:39:42 +0100
+
+man-db (2.5.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release.
+    - Make /usr/local/share/man mandatory rather than /usr/local/man
+      (thanks, Reuben Thomas; closes: #463892).
+    - Whatis parsing stops at .ie or .if conditionals (closes: #467444).
+    - In the CJK UTF-8 special case, check the canonicalised encoding in
+      order that locale specifications such as "zh_CN.utf8" work (closes:
+      #467249).
+    - Improve 'man -E' to allow overriding the output encoding explicitly,
+      rather than implicitly (and unreliably) by changing the *roff device
+      (closes: #466396).
+    - Don't emit encoding conversion errors in mandb's quiet mode (closes:
+      #473862).
+    - Clean up some loose ends of Chinese support, adding zh_SG and EUC-TW
+      support (thanks, Wu Songhai; closes: #354321).
+    - Fix jless support to avoid breaking less (closes: #217519).
+  * Backport from trunk:
+    - #include <string.h> in lib/cleanup.c for memset.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 05 May 2008 09:54:21 +0100
+
+man-db (2.5.1-4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Add support for dpkg triggers per
+    http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2007/04/msg00076.html. There's no
+    versioned dependency on a trigger-supporting version of dpkg since this
+    is an optional feature, but now installation of any package including
+    manual pages will trigger a database rebuild at the end of the dpkg run
+    once the new dpkg is available (closes: #133917, LP: #50110).
+  * Build-depend on debhelper (>= 5.0.59) for triggers installation in
+    dh_installdeb.
+  * Configuration always needs to be a superset of triggering, so we always
+    need to build or update the database on upgrade. After some thought,
+    I've decided that we can live with doing this unconditionally in the
+    foreground: mandb is faster than it used to be, hardware is faster than
+    it used to be, and most builds from scratch will be due to installing
+    from scratch when relatively few manual pages are installed. Thus, I've
+    ripped out the two debconf questions dealing with this.
+  * Move doc-base entry to Viewers (from Applications/Viewers).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:30:31 +0100
+
+man-db (2.5.1-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Only replace manpages-de (<< 0.5-4), per Daniel Kobras.
+  * Backport from upstream:
+    - 'man -H' (without a browser argument) was completely broken in 2.5.1
+      and is now fixed.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:35:16 +0000
+
+man-db (2.5.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Replaces: manpages-de, which provides out-of-date copies of man-db's
+    manual pages for some reason (closes: #463027).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:38:13 +0000
+
+man-db (2.5.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release.
+    - Fix a number of problems with the localisation changes in 2.5.0.
+      Notably, manual pages are converted to the proper input encoding for
+      troff output as well as nroff output, and manconv's encoding fallback
+      mechanism should now actually fall back as intended.
+    - Add a 'man --recode' option to output a source manual page converted
+      to a specified encoding. This is expected to be used by debhelper to
+      install UTF-8 manual pages.
+    - Fix "occured" typo in mandb(8) (thanks, Alfie Costa; closes: #446044).
+    - Allow only alphanumerics and "-_/:.()" in encoding names (closes:
+      #446055).
+    - Enable localisation in accessdb, globbing, lexgrog, and zsoelim
+      (closes: #448395).
+    - Allow passing warning options to groff, either using the environment
+      variable MANROFFOPT or the new 'man --warnings' option (thanks, Ivan
+      Shmakov; closes: #451187).
+    - Add 'man -s' as an alias for 'man -S' (closes: #458499).
+    - 'man -l' guesses language based on absolute path to provided file,
+      rather than relative (closes: #460014).
+    - mandb sets the new file's mode to DBMODE in order to try to defend
+      against strange problems with databases being left world-unreadable
+      (closes: #430800).
+    - Don't ignore SIGINT and SIGQUIT just because a decompression process
+      is running (closes: #462276).
+    - Update Russian translation (closes: #452417).
+    - Add Korean support, requiring groff >= 1.18.1.1-16 (LP: #176896).
+  * Policy version 3.7.3:
+    - Move doc-base entry to Applications/Viewers.
+  * Update debian/copyright. Due to incorporating parts of Gnulib, the
+    man-db package as a whole now falls under GPLv3.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:06:57 +0000
+
+man-db (2.5.0-4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Always pass an appropriate --build= option to configure.
+  * Add debconf translations:
+    - Simplified Chinese (thanks, Ming Hua; closes: #447421).
+    - Finnish (thanks, Esko Arajärvi; closes: #448769).
+  * Update debconf translations:
+    - Dutch (thanks, Bart Cornelis; closes: #447719).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:03:27 +0000
+
+man-db (2.5.0-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Backport from upstream (closes: #446302):
+    - Fix apropos/whatis segfault with explicitly specified locale.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:29:46 +0100
+
+man-db (2.5.0-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Backport from upstream (closes: #446189):
+    - Connect up the decompression pipeline in the display_to_stdout case
+      too.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:55:11 +0100
+
+man-db (2.5.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release.
+    - Remove /usr/X11R6/man from MANDATORY_MANPATH (closes: #413349).
+    - man now supports the MANPAGER environment variable, overriding PAGER.
+    - Resolve ambiguous error message when asking for a nonexistent manual
+      page that might also be a section name (closes: #421481).
+    - MANSEC -> MANSECT in German man(1) and catman(8) (closes: #430635).
+    - Truncate apropos/whatis output to the terminal width by default
+      (closes: #411721).
+    - lexgrog now ignores alleged manual page names containing spaces, as
+      these usually indicate parsing errors or ill-formed NAME sections and
+      they clutter up apropos output badly.
+    - Discard stderr from formatting processes when outputting to a pager,
+      to avoid visual corruption from any error messages (closes: #372939).
+    - Disallow sectional extensions of alphabetic sections, e.g. n and l
+      from the default configuration (closes: #391977), and sectional
+      extensions beginning with a digit (closes: #421481).
+    - Suppress warnings in --quiet mode (closes: #348008, #378428, #411220;
+      also closes: #334280 since that suggestion is no longer relevant).
+    - If MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING is set in the environment, don't strip
+      formatting characters with col (closes: #340673).
+    - Implement and use a decompression library. This allows cat pages to be
+      saved in the background while the pager is active (closes: #18452) and
+      operation with a read-only /tmp (closes: #165499).
+    - Add a configuration file flag (NOCACHE) to disable cat page caching
+      (closes: #196642).
+    - Add output keys to a hashtable, and skip any that have already been
+      seen (closes: #259338).
+    - Execute system utilities by command name rather than by full path
+      (closes: #385651).
+    - Add apropos -a/--and option to display only items matching all
+      keywords (closes: #259340).
+    - Adjust Finnish translation of "No manual entry for %s"
+      (closes: #320108).
+    - Create and use databases for non-English manual hierarchies
+      (closes: #29448, #281811).
+    - Improve per-locale directory handling. Directories such as "fr.UTF-8"
+      may be used for occasions when it is appropriate to specify the
+      character set but not the country, and so a full locale name is
+      inconvenient.
+    - There is a new "manconv" program which can try multiple possible
+      encodings for a file, thus allowing UTF-8 manual pages to be installed
+      in any directory even without an explicit encoding declaration.
+    - Don't escape the hierarchy path while globbing; it isn't necessary and
+      it causes problems for paths containing metacharacters
+      (closes: #444187).
+  * Use new configure options for external programs rather than hardcoding
+    them in configure.ac.
+  * Remove code in debian/rules to fiddle manual page paths for Debian,
+    since the default of $LL.UTF-8 is now reasonable. (An
+    announcement/discussion about what other Debian packages should do will
+    be forthcoming shortly.)
+  * Build-depend on zlib1g-dev so that we use zlib rather than gzip to
+    decompress gzipped manual pages.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:38:25 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.4-4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Ignore chown failures, though affected systems are buggy and should be
+    fixed (closes: #432029).
+  * Apply results of debconf templates and package descriptions review by
+    debian-l10n-english (closes: #430837).
+  * Update debconf translations:
+    - Catalan (thanks, Jordà Polo; closes: #430857).
+    - Galician (thanks, Jacobo Tarrio; closes: #430861).
+    - Swedish (thanks, Daniel Nylander; closes: #430869).
+    - Vietnamese (thanks, Clytie Siddall; closes: #430945).
+    - Turkish (thanks, Mehmet TURKER; closes: #430910).
+    - Portuguese (thanks, Miguel Figueiredo; closes: #431119).
+    - Japanese (thanks, Kenshi Muto; closes: #431183).
+    - Italian (thanks, Luca Monducci; closes: #431195).
+    - Czech (thanks, Miroslav Kure; closes: #431282).
+    - Russian (thanks, Yuri Kozlov; closes: #431290).
+    - Spanish (thanks, Carlos Valdivia Yagüe; closes: #431416).
+    - German (thanks, Helge Kreutzmann; closes: #431448).
+    - French (thanks, Christian Perrier; closes: #431503).
+    - Polish (thanks, Wojciech Zareba; closes: #431550).
+  * Add debconf translations:
+    - Basque (thanks, Piarres Beobide; closes: #430929).
+    - Tamil (thanks, Tirumurti Vasudevan; closes: #431063).
+  * Override syntax-error-in-debian-changelog lintian warning. I'm not going
+    to edit history from over eight years ago just for this.
+  * Don't ignore errors from 'make distclean' other than the Makefile not
+    existing.
+  * Drop source-compatibility with woody.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:36:42 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.4-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Backport from upstream (closes: #420843):
+    - lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_start): Don't ignore SIGPIPE in subprocesses;
+      this has undesirable consequences in some situations.
+      (pipeline_wait): Flatten SIGPIPE exit statuses to zero instead.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 22 May 2007 14:07:54 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.4-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Update debconf translations:
+    - Catalan (thanks, Jordà Polo; closes: #412304).
+  * Backport from upstream:
+    - src/lexgrog.l: Break whatis definitions at .IP, .HP, .RS, and .RE
+      (thanks to Ori Avtalion for the report).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 08 Apr 2007 21:18:02 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.4-1) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release.
+    - Drop "Reformatting %s, please wait..." message (LP: #18786,
+      closes: #378781).
+    - Fix "gditview" typo (closes: #317696).
+    - Avoid splitting up a sentence into two translatable pieces
+      (closes: #320111).
+    - Add Russian translation of NAME (thanks, Yuri Kozlov;
+      closes: #338991).
+    - Fix mistaken use of .l instead of .I (thanks, Valéry Perrin;
+      closes: #349208).
+    - Add Danish translation of NAME (thanks, Henning Makholm;
+      closes: #353959).
+    - Skip "exec" at the start of a command, to make old configuration files
+      work (closes: #353959).
+    - Ignore SIGPIPE in child processes (closes: #387864).
+    - Fail with an error message if argv is a character or block device, as
+      we may well hang trying to read from it and it almost certainly isn't
+      what the caller intended anyway (closes: #341706).
+    - Teach lexgrog front-end about pages with multiple name/description
+      pairs (closes: #342834).
+    - Fix a slew of memory leaks, including a nasty per-search leak in
+      apropos (closes: #368749).
+    - Add cross-references to mandb in apropos and whatis documentation
+      (thanks, Phil Endecott; closes: #388755).
+    - Document man -X option (thanks, Sam Morris; closes: #360112).
+    - Don't try to pass -X or -P-g options to eqn, only troff
+      (closes: #327772).
+    - Stop claiming that -d does not display any manual pages (thanks, Dan
+      Jacobson; closes: #340910).
+  * Policy version 3.7.2: no changes required.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:45:53 +0000
+
+man-db (2.4.3-6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Add French man pages translation (thanks, Valéry Perrin;
+    closes: #348911).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:03:01 +0000
+
+man-db (2.4.3-5) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * CVE-2006-4250: Fix a buffer overrun if using -H and the designated web
+    browser (argument to -H or $BROWSER) contains multiple %s expansions.
+    Thanks to Jochen Voß for the report.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:13:27 +0000
+
+man-db (2.4.3-4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Add debconf translations:
+    - Galician (thanks, Jacobo Tarrio; closes: #362133).
+    - Italian (thanks, Luca Monducci; closes: #345533).
+    - Portuguese (thanks, Miguel Figueiredo; closes: #348788).
+    - Swedish (thanks, Daniel Nylander; closes: #339078).
+  * Use debhelper 4.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:43:27 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.3-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Ignore SIGINT and SIGQUIT in the parent while running subprocesses
+    (closes: #328982).
+  * Improve SIGCHLD handling in pipeline library (closes: #326488):
+    - Queue SIGCHLD for the whole time we're collecting child process
+      statuses; we need to keep a careful count of processes.
+    - Forget any previous errno before calling reap_children.
+  * Explicitly tell po2debconf to use the 'popular' output encoding, so that
+    the woody-compatibility hack works even with po-debconf 0.9.0.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:03:47 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.3-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Use 'col -b -p -x' rather than just 'col -b' when stdout is not a
+    terminal. Partly fixes #319952, but col still needs to be fixed to cope
+    with UTF-8 input.
+  * Use www-browser as default HTML pager, and suggest the virtual
+    www-browser package (closes: #321769).
+  * Update debian/copyright with the FSF's new address.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:37:35 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release.
+    - Make most calls to external programs directly rather than going via
+      the shell.
+    - When stdout is not a terminal, man pages will be formatted in plain
+      text without the use of backspace or ANSI formatting characters.
+    - Try harder to find somewhere to store cat pages for symlinked man
+      pages (closes: #129575).
+    - When invoking apropos (man -k) or whatis (man -f) as external
+      programs, man now only passes through command-line options understood
+      by the respective programs (closes: #207436).
+    - Drop versions and/or modifiers from locale names before deciding how
+      to handle them (closes: #241387).
+    - Fix portable shell issues in mkcatdirs (closes: #256279).
+    - Terminate NAME section parsing on encountering a macro definition
+      (closes: #275562).
+    - Add -s/--section option to apropos and whatis (closes: #218407).
+    - Update Polish translation (thanks, Robert Luberda; closes: #245057).
+    - Update Russian translation (thanks, Yuri Kozlov; closes: #268584).
+  * Policy version 3.6.2: no changes required.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon,  4 Jul 2005 00:27:05 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.2-23) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Update config.guess and config.sub to 2005-04-22 (closes: #315075).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:49:04 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.2-22) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Depend on debconf | debconf-2.0.
+  * Add debconf translations:
+    - Vietnamese (thanks, Clytie Siddall; closes: #309060).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Fri, 10 Jun 2005 15:22:16 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.2-21) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Teach encodings layer about Turkish.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed,  5 Jan 2005 15:14:30 +0000
+
+man-db (2.4.2-20) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Suggest less, since we have special support for it (closes: #280096).
+  * Add support for cross-building (closes: #284856).
+  * Restore the intended ability to use SECTIONS to move extensions out of
+    order with respect to their parent sections, broken while working around
+    #204249.
+  * Move extended section 3posix after section 2 (closes: #277981).
+  * Update debconf translations:
+    - Russian (thanks, Yuri Kozlov; part of #268584).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 12 Dec 2004 22:22:17 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.2-19) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix database creation problems on systems with badly broken clocks set
+    before the epoch (thanks to Martin Pitt for the hint; fixes #252425
+    harder).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:58:28 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.2-18) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix out-of-order declarations in whatis.c (closes: #240089).
+  * Update debconf translations:
+    - Dutch (thanks, cobaco; closes: #260294).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 20 Jul 2004 01:40:20 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.2-17) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * debian/postinst, debian/postrm: Replace XSIish uses of 'test' with more
+    portable code (thanks, David Weinehall; see #256279).
+  * Synchronize logic for whether to ask build-database or rebuild-database
+    between config and postinst (closes: #246545).
+  * Don't fail to configure if mandb doesn't create any databases for
+    whatever reason when running in the foreground (closes: #252425).
+  * Policy version 3.6.1: no changes required.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 28 Jun 2004 11:48:02 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.2-16) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Update debconf translations:
+    - Spanish (thanks, Carlos Valdivia Yagüe; closes: #247829).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Thu, 13 May 2004 19:19:53 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.2-15) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Add debconf translations:
+    - Czech (thanks, Miroslav Kure; closes: #244422).
+    - Polish (thanks, Robert Luberda; closes: #245056).
+  * Update debconf translations:
+    - German (thanks, Florian Ernst; closes: #244532).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Fri, 23 Apr 2004 01:30:38 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.2-14) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Add Turkish debconf translation (thanks, Recai Oktas and Mehmet Turker;
+    closes: #239143).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 23 Mar 2004 20:14:20 +0000
+
+man-db (2.4.2-13) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * When sorting located man pages for display, sort by pure section, then
+    id (real page, symlink, whatis reference, etc.), then extended section,
+    rather than the previous ordering of extended section then id. This
+    works around the worst effects of #204249, in which changing a
+    cross-hierarchy man page alternative can cause man to get the display
+    order wrong.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon,  8 Mar 2004 00:23:21 +0000
+
+man-db (2.4.2-12) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Add Ukrainian debconf translation (thanks, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov;
+    closes: #235803).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue,  2 Mar 2004 21:32:07 +0000
+
+man-db (2.4.2-11) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Update Brazilian Portuguese debconf translation (thanks, Andre Luis
+    Lopes; closes: #235501).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon,  1 Mar 2004 00:08:30 +0000
+
+man-db (2.4.2-10) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Update debconf translations:
+    - Danish (thanks, Claus Hindsgaul; closes: #233272).
+    - French (thanks, Christian Perrier; closes: #232490).
+    - Japanese (thanks, Kenshi Muto; closes: #234051).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:45:13 +0000
+
+man-db (2.4.2-9) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Improve the wording of some debconf templates (thanks, Christian
+    Perrier; closes: #232002).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 10 Feb 2004 22:12:14 +0000
+
+man-db (2.4.2-8) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Shorten the man-db/install-setuid template so that it doesn't overflow a
+    25-line terminal (see #231083).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun,  8 Feb 2004 17:28:10 +0000
+
+man-db (2.4.2-7) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix lexgrog to handle *roff requests immediately after ".SH NAME"
+    properly rather than interpreting them as plain text, and add a grotty
+    heuristic hack to strip quotes from request arguments (closes: #222426).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 28 Jan 2004 00:30:57 +0000
+
+man-db (2.4.2-6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Increment groff-base dependency to 1.17.2-2, when the ascii8 device was
+    moved there (closes: #225461). Drop the alternative groff dependency
+    altogether; it only matters if you're trying to use sarge's man-db with
+    a groff from before woody, and I'm unconvinced about trying to support
+    that combination.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 30 Dec 2003 01:06:43 +0000
+
+man-db (2.4.2-5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix build with uClibc, which doesn't have canonicalize_file_name()
+    (thanks, Erik Andersen; closes: #216631).
+  * Speed up mandb's purging of obsolete entries by lots, after noticing
+    that it was calling fnmatch() an obscene number of times. The directory
+    cache is now kept sorted and binary-searched on lookup.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:35:30 +0000
+
+man-db (2.4.2-4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Add Dutch debconf translation (thanks, cobaco; closes: #216309).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sat, 18 Oct 2003 01:06:37 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.2-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Make upgrades from before 2.4.2-1 pay attention to the rebuild-database
+    question rather than build-database, even though the names of database
+    files have changed (closes: #213799).
+  * Silence errors from mandb via man when there are unwriteable directories
+    on the manpath (closes: #213832).
+  * In fact, while we're at it, turn off MAN_DB_CREATES so that man never
+    tries to create databases that don't already exist. Users can still run
+    mandb to create them themselves for the benefit of apropos and whatis if
+    it's appropriate, but filesystem lookup should normally be enough for
+    reading man pages.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Fri, 10 Oct 2003 21:07:37 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.2-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * mandb only complains if it failed to do anything on create, not on
+    update (closes: #211977).
+  * Teach encodings layer about Galician, Indonesian, Croatian, and Slovak.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 21 Sep 2003 14:38:27 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release.
+    - Revamped locale support.
+      + The encoding of source manual pages is no longer considered to be
+        related to the encoding of the input passed to *roff or to *roff's
+        terminal output device. iconv pipes are inserted where necessary to
+        convert between encodings.
+      + Avoid using -Tlatin1 in locales that don't support it, like C and
+        *.ISO-8859-2 (closes: #163983, #168442).
+    - 'man ./foo.1' behaves much more like 'man -l foo.1' (closes: #170512).
+    - Directories found in strange places in manual hierarchies don't crash
+      mandb (closes: #176645).
+    - Clarify 'man -Tdevice' syntax in man(1) (closes: #186806).
+    - Add -C switch to use a different configuration file (closes: #176522).
+    - mandb now knows how to purge removed stray cat pages from the database
+      (closes: #143632).
+  * Climb off the Berkeley DB version treadmill and use GDBM instead, whose
+    version churn is a lot less frequent, and which is smaller and more
+    appropriate to the use man-db makes of its databases (closes: #177176).
+  * debian/postinst: Remove old index.bt databases from /var/cache/man.
+  * debian/copyright: Remove outdated claim to be a native package (thanks,
+    Petr Hudec). Various other updates and corrections.
+  * debian/changelog: Correct date of second-earliest entry (thanks again,
+    Petr Hudec).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sat, 20 Sep 2003 12:08:29 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.1-13) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Fix segfault caused by an unchecked strcpy() while resolving hard links.
+  * Provide -8 and -B as separate flex arguments. flex 2.5.31 is stricter
+    about this.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Fri, 15 Aug 2003 22:38:50 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.1-12) unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * SECURITY: Fix overly permissive DEFINE command. DEFINE directives that
+    affect code running with raised privileges are now disabled in
+    ~/.manpath.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Fri,  1 Aug 2003 22:29:44 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.1-11) unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * Fix several security problems reported on BugTraq (closes: #203475):
+    - Limit sscanf() calls to the appropriate buffer size while reading
+      configuration file.
+    - Allocate strings dynamically while finding the ultimate source of man
+      pages, avoiding a couple of buffer overflows.
+    - Die gracefully if MANPATH contains too many elements, as a stopgap
+      measure until proper list handling can be added.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 30 Jul 2003 22:52:05 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.1-10) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Ignore LANGUAGE if a locale is explicitly specified using the
+    -L/--locale option (closes: #187751).
+  * Clarify section 3 as "program libraries" rather than "system libraries"
+    (closes: #196588).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sat, 28 Jun 2003 00:27:37 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.1-9) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Fix detection of decompression programs so that man doesn't attempt to
+    execute man pages (!) when it doesn't have a decompression program
+    (thanks, Paul Slootman; closes: #196097).
+  * Fall back to /usr/bin/compress if compress isn't installed on the build
+    system.
+  * Correct a misplaced free() in decompress() that mangled an error
+    message.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Thu,  5 Jun 2003 00:30:45 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.1-8) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * debian/postinst: Remove '>/dev/null 2>/dev/null' from start-stop-daemon
+    invocation (see #154958 and #191249).
+  * Convert to po-debconf, including hacks for source package compatibility
+    with woody.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 18 May 2003 23:55:31 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.1-7) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Return 0 from xcopy() if the source file doesn't exist, so that mandb
+    creates databases when asked to update missing ones instead of bailing
+    out (closes: #187314).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sat, 12 Apr 2003 16:44:54 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.1-6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix stupid mistake in xcopy()'s error handling. Thanks to Adam Conrad
+    for the use of his system (closes: #183102).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon,  3 Mar 2003 22:02:51 +0000
+
+man-db (2.4.1-5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix a segfault in the $PATH-searching code (closes: #182661).
+  * Remove obsolete Suggests: groff-x11.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:26:30 +0000
+
+man-db (2.4.1-4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Only emit the message pointing to undocumented(7) if the name the user
+    is looking for is on the $PATH (closes: #176468).
+  * Improve xcopy()'s error handling. This helps with #167159, although
+    apparently I'll have to move to db 4.1 to fix it completely.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:08:38 +0000
+
+man-db (2.4.1-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Drop privileges in display_pages() when trying to display a page from a
+    user manpath. (This isn't a security problem, as privileges were still
+    correctly dropped while running external programs like pagers. However,
+    it meant that non-world-readable user manpaths were inaccessible using a
+    setuid man.)
+  * Recode this changelog to UTF-8.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon,  6 Jan 2003 03:25:29 +0000
+
+man-db (2.4.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix some cases of uninitialized mandata structs (closes: #151873).
+  * Restore the undocumented(7) message; 2.4.1 implements it using a
+    configure flag which I forgot to add.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 23 Dec 2002 01:06:57 +0000
+
+man-db (2.4.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * The "no, the apropos segfaults weren't my fault" release.
+  * New upstream release.
+    - Add new -W/--where-cat option and arrange for -w to print out only the
+      location of the nroff page, to make parsing easier (closes: #156558).
+    - Remove some global variable abuse in the detection of preprocessors
+      (closes: #153794).
+    - Export $MAN_PN to the pager (closes: #158658).
+    - Fix character set lookups again (closes: #158752).
+    - Add bzip2 decompression support (closes: #159994). Note that this
+      doesn't mean packages should use it: Debian policy still mandates
+      gzip, and bzip2 is neither Essential: yes nor depended on by man-db.
+    - Print an error message and continue when a decompression command
+      fails, rather than immediately returning CHILD_FAIL (closes: #141981).
+    - Clarify the purpose of section 7 as "Miscellaneous" (closes: #161505).
+    - Rewrite the whatis parsing and storing code in check_mandirs.c so that
+      I can actually understand it, and fix some spurious pointer loops in
+      the process (closes: #163030).
+    - Avoid over-enthusiastic access() check on stdin, so that 'man -X -l -'
+      works (thanks, Peter Muir; closes: #167446).
+    - Escape man page names when globbing, so that [(1) works properly
+      (closes: #168129).
+    - Fix a slightly misfiring check for $LANGUAGE (closes: #171513).
+    - Detect and rebuild databases with the multi key corruption fixed in
+      2.4.0-7 (closes: #165625).
+  * './configure --enable-mandirs=GNU' is no longer necessary; the configure
+    script figures it out automatically.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 22 Dec 2002 19:43:37 +0000
+
+man-db (2.4.0-11) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Remove weak alias foolishness from lib/strnlen.c, so that man-db can
+    build on BSD.
+  * Add advice to the "No manual entry for %s" message to the effect that
+    help for undocumented features can be found in undocumented(7). This is
+    an experimental Debian-specific hack for now to help with #39830, but
+    can be pushed upstream in time.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Thu, 14 Nov 2002 01:04:03 +0000
+
+man-db (2.4.0-10) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * datum.dsize needs to be size_t, not int. This broke s390x, which is
+    64-bit and big-endian (thanks, Bastian Blank).
+  * Policy version 3.5.7:
+    - Drop DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=debug, and support noopt instead.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 16 Sep 2002 21:32:30 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.0-9) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Don't fail whatis parse upon encountering EOF in the NAME section of a
+    man page (closes: #160102).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 11 Sep 2002 19:23:29 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.0-8) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Recover if /var/cache/man has been deleted (closes: #159665).
+  * Get rid of spurious "fopen: no such file or directory" message.
+  * Fix '/usr/share/common-license' typo.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Fri,  6 Sep 2002 22:59:55 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.0-7) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Fix segfault with uninitialized info.name and info.filter when scanning
+    stray cats (thanks, Brendan O'Dea).
+  * Fix database corruption when deleting one of a group of pages with the
+    same name from the database. Existing corruption isn't repaired
+    automatically; if you get "bad fetch on multi key" errors, run 'mandb
+    --create' as the 'man' user to rebuild the database from scratch
+    (closes: #159451).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue,  3 Sep 2002 20:41:56 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.0-6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Use --quiet in cron jobs rather than redirecting mandb's stdout and
+    stderr to /dev/null (closes: #133185).
+  * Point the cron jobs and postinst at /usr/bin/mandb rather than
+    /usr/lib/man-db/mandb. At some point /usr/lib/man-db is going to go
+    away, as it's no longer necessary; make sure to bring /etc/cron.*/man-db
+    up to date if you've changed them manually.
+  * Compare $DEBIAN_FRONTEND case-insensitively (closes: #154764).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Fri,  9 Aug 2002 01:42:17 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.0-5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix segfault when man is asked to display a page that is a dangling
+    symlink (closes: #151974).
+  * Improve error message when asked to display a nonexistent page whose
+    name begins with 'n' or 'l' (which are also section names).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sat,  6 Jul 2002 21:34:04 +0100
+
+man-db (2.4.0-4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Make sure the loop that scans for per-system manpaths if $SYSTEM is set
+    always makes progress (closes: #151270).
+  * Install man/THANKS.
+  * Update David Martínez' e-mail address.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed,  3 Jul 2002 22:52:13 +0000
+
+man-db (2.4.0-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Include a bug/reportbug presubj hook to encourage the inclusion of
+    --debug output in bug reports.
+  * Fix the "9wm problem" for good (I hope). In the default configuration,
+    man will now essentially assume that anything beginning with a digit is
+    a section, but fall back and try it as a name if that doesn't work. So
+    'man 9wm fvwm' will look for fvwm(9wm) and then try 9wm(1) and fvwm(1)
+    when that fails, while 'man 3perl Shell' will display Shell(3perl). This
+    will now work even if man hasn't been explicitly told that 3perl is a
+    valid section (closes: #151283).
+  * Don't list 3tcl and 3tk in /etc/manpath.config any more, as this
+    workaround is now unnecessary (see #115345).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sat, 29 Jun 2002 14:20:18 +0000
+
+man-db (2.4.0-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Don't ask rebuild-database question twice on upgrade (closes: #151131).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:00:01 +0000
+
+man-db (2.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release.
+    - Restructure the code that finds man pages to allow more flexibility.
+      Man pages are now located first, then sorted properly before they are
+      displayed (closes: #107946, #146696).
+    - Case-insensitive lookups are now the default, although they can be
+      disabled with -I or --match-case (closes: #108410). The database
+      format had to be changed to support this, so existing databases will
+      need to be rebuilt; debconf will ask about this at medium priority. In
+      the process, move from libdb2 to libdb3.
+    - Add a new -E/--encoding option to select different nroff devices
+      (closes: #123994).
+    - Use groff's utf8 device if the current locale specifies the UTF-8
+      character set (closes: #129783).
+    - Various changes that help with displaying output from the forthcoming
+      groff 1.18. In particular, the -R flag is passed to less - shout if
+      this causes any problems.
+    - Work around libdb delays on zero-length databases (closes: #137908).
+    - Add $MANLESS, which can be used to override all of man's
+      do-what-I-mean code for setting $LESS (closes: #141403).
+    - 'apropos --wildcard' anchors on word boundaries by default. Use
+      --exact as well to revert to the old behaviour (closes: #37686).
+
+    - Mention ps and utf8 groff output devices in man(1) (closes: #123997).
+    - Document mandb's exit codes in its man page (closes: #111851).
+    - Set less's -M prompt as well as its -m prompt (closes: #123312).
+    - Give the correct page titles to less when man is invoked recursively
+      (closes: #139155).
+    - Use .BR for references in manpage.example (closes: #143389).
+
+  * Stop using the wrapper that squashed root privileges down to uid man. It
+    didn't provide any real security benefits in my opinion, and caused too
+    many problems (closes: #58112, #74790).
+  * Updated German and Brazilian Portuguese debconf translations (thanks,
+    Sebastian Rittau and Andre Luis Lopes).
+  * Correct path to text manual in doc-base file, and mention some more
+    formats (thanks, Robert Luberda; closes: #149547).
+  * start-stop-daemon isn't available when running from debootstrap. Use
+    perl in the postinst instead to drop privileges in this case (thanks to
+    Torsten Landschoff for the idea).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 26 Jun 2002 15:40:32 +0000
+
+man-db (2.3.20-20) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix Catalan debconf translation (thanks, Jordi Mallach;
+    closes: #140294).
+  * Always build the database on fresh installations. Bug #100616 is now
+    avoided by starting mandb in the foreground if DEBIAN_FRONTEND =
+    Noninteractive; I originally thought this was also set when using the
+    noninteractive frontend normally outside the installer, which apparently
+    isn't the case.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 15 May 2002 23:07:58 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.20-19) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * debconf translations:
+    - Add Catalan (thanks, Antoni Bella; closes: #140294).
+    - Update Russian (thanks, Ilgiz Kalmetev; closes: #140886).
+  * debian/cron.daily: Force /var/cache/man to be owned by man, just in case
+    something else changed it (closes: #129340). If you want the cat
+    directories to be owned by some other user, use dpkg-statoverride on
+    /var/cache/man to set this; cron.daily won't touch them then.
+  * debian/control: Depend on dpkg (>= 1.9.0) for the exit status of
+    'dpkg-statoverride --list'.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sat,  4 May 2002 20:28:27 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.20-18) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Add French debconf translation (thanks, Philippe Batailler;
+    closes: #138375).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Fri, 15 Mar 2002 01:46:57 +0000
+
+man-db (2.3.20-17) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Add Japanese debconf translation (thanks, Tomohiro KUBOTA;
+    closes: #138110).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:08:42 +0000
+
+man-db (2.3.20-16) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Adjust Spanish debconf translation (thanks, David Martinez Moreno;
+    closes: #136981).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sat,  9 Mar 2002 21:10:43 +0000
+
+man-db (2.3.20-15) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * The "mad-db" release.
+  * Move section 2 in front of the extensions for scripting languages in
+    section 3 by default, at the request of the Perl maintainer.
+  * Install DVI and PostScript versions of the manual, for ease of printing
+    (closes: #134926).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Thu, 21 Feb 2002 09:20:04 +0000
+
+man-db (2.3.20-14) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Fix segfault due to reusing a freed pointer in some cases of pages with
+    multiple names. Thanks to Eirik Fuller for an excellent piece of
+    analysis (closes: #123130).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Thu, 21 Feb 2002 01:25:17 +0000
+
+man-db (2.3.20-13) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Add Danish translation (thanks, Morten Brix Pedersen; closes: #122674).
+  * Add Danish debconf translation (thanks, Claus Hindsgaul and Rune B.
+    Broberg; closes: #126606).
+  * Update Spanish debconf translation (thanks, José Luis González
+    González).
+  * Delete spurious backslashes in the less prompt string (closes: #122355).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 27 Jan 2002 03:10:06 +0000
+
+man-db (2.3.20-12) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Add some text to the install-setuid debconf note to explain that cat
+    pages only work with "normal" terminal widths, to avoid the denial of
+    service attack where you cause a cat page to be saved for a
+    one-character-wide terminal, and that you can override its terminal
+    width detection using $MANWIDTH. This alleviates #121997, although
+    there's still a wishlist there to allow the width of cat pages on the
+    system to be configurable.
+  * Remove po/fr.gmo in the clean target: binary files can't go in the diff.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sat,  1 Dec 2001 19:41:54 +0000
+
+man-db (2.3.20-11) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * French translation update (thanks, Laurent Pelecq).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 25 Nov 2001 19:58:44 +0000
+
+man-db (2.3.20-10) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * copy_datum() explicitly null-terminates data returned by libdb2, which
+    avoids some rare and hard-to-trace segfaults. Many thanks to Manuel
+    Estrada Sainz for his patience in allowing me to use his system to debug
+    this over a period of several weeks (closes: #115219, #117009).
+  * Keep a private hashtable of keys we've received from the database in the
+    btree code, and return NULL if we get one we've seen already. Although
+    this slows down database access somewhat, I hope it should get rid of
+    problems with looped databases for good (closes: #116785).
+  * Avoid nested calls to strtok() (closes: #119041).
+  * Don't try to strappend() a string to itself while processing a MANPATH
+    containing "::" (closes: #119098).
+  * Display a more useful error message if asked to display a directory
+    (closes: #120047).
+  * Stop a memory leak in decompress().
+  * configure detects that nroff is groff even if /bin/sh is ash.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 19 Nov 2001 01:56:01 +0000
+
+man-db (2.3.20-9) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Drop privileges when reading temporary file to find the list of
+    preprocessors (closes: #117037).
+  * Axiom: any bug in man-db may be fixed by additional calls to
+    drop_effective_privs().
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Thu,  8 Nov 2001 11:34:53 +0000
+
+man-db (2.3.20-8) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Force build-time pager detection to return /usr/bin/pager, even if for
+    some reason it doesn't exist (closes: #117246).
+  * Actually remember to run autoconf this time.
+  * Add 3tcl and 3tk sections to /etc/manpath.config as a workaround until
+    extensions work properly (closes: #115345).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue,  6 Nov 2001 10:46:44 +0000
+
+man-db (2.3.20-7) unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * Drop privileges throughout format_display(), and fix use of freed memory
+    while printing the resulting error message (closes: #117168).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:10:05 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.20-6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Oops, meant to remove --nicelevel from cron.weekly and the postinst too.
+  * Weaken versioned dependency on dpkg.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 10 Oct 2001 21:23:21 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.20-5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Add Russian debconf translation (thanks, Ilgiz Kalmetev;
+    closes: #114981).
+  * Remove --nicelevel from cron.daily script until start-stop-daemon is
+    fixed. Sorry (see #114997).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue,  9 Oct 2001 20:06:39 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.20-4) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Release Manager: this bug has been in man-db since 2.3.18-3, and meant
+    that new installations of woody had broken cat directories by default.
+    It really needs to beat the base system freeze.
+  * mandb: correctly chown newly created cat directories to man when running
+    as root (closes: #113764).
+  * debian/postinst: chown everything in /var/cache/man to man if upgrading
+    from older versions.
+  * Build with -Wall.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 30 Sep 2001 14:52:25 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.20-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Suppress spurious "pointer loop" error from apropos/whatis in certain
+    corner cases (see #113370).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 26 Sep 2001 00:04:55 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.20-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * lexgrog: Stop the '.' no-op request from eating text on the next line
+    (it caused problems before .SH NAME), and trim whitespace better.
+    Urgency medium to match the recent groff upload that tickles this.
+  * man: Drop privileges throughout local_man_loop() (closes: #111939).
+  * Various documentation updates, including referring to man(7) from man(1)
+    and adding some more advice to manpage.example* (thanks, Andreas Dilger;
+    closes: #112281).
+  * Policy version 3.5.6.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 19 Sep 2001 02:18:20 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.20-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release.
+    - Improve lexgrog so that its output is more machine-parseable, give it
+      a man page, and move it to /usr/bin.
+    - mandb's --create option implies --no-purge, to avoid problems when
+      recreating broken databases (closes: #110738, important).
+    - man doesn't segfault if LANGUAGE is set but empty (closes: #110309).
+    - Support 'man --html', with ESR's $BROWSER specification and David A.
+      Wheeler's modifications for improved security (closes: #108143).
+    - Reword part of apropos(1) (thanks, Daniel Patterson; closes: #110468).
+  * Release Manager: we've had most of the code in this release already in
+    the 2.3.19 series. The lexgrog changes here will be very useful for
+    tools like lintian, perhaps in time for woody; the code affected by
+    implementing $BROWSER was previously unsupported.
+  * All translations (both gettext and man pages) are now very out of date.
+    Please contact me if you can help.
+  * debian/rules: Simplify install target; upstream clock-skew bug fixed.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Fri,  7 Sep 2001 19:30:34 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.19-6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Escape shell arguments properly to cope with spaces in man page names
+    (closes: #27492, #50107).
+  * Honour more than one MANPATH_MAP entry per $PATH element, providing of
+    course that the manpath exists (closes: #108979).
+  * Set roff_device to ascii8 and LESSCHARSET to iso8859 for Korean (thanks,
+    Ho-seok Lee; closes: #109598, #109599).
+  * Display an error if setlocale() fails.
+  * Switch off --html option properly, as it doesn't work very well yet
+    anyway. The -Thtml option still works.
+  * Fix count of purged whatis references.
+  * src/wrapper.c: Include <grp.h> for initgroups().
+
+  * debian/control: Improve language of description.
+  * debian/copyright: Minor updates. Mention Markus Armbruster.
+  * debian/rules: Build and install /usr/lib/man-db/lexgrog; it's handy for
+    testing purposes.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 26 Aug 2001 01:20:00 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.19-5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Improve creation of temporary files by using mkstemp() rather than
+    tempnam(), and by falling back to /tmp if $TMPDIR is unwriteable
+    (closes: #92459, #102330).
+  * Clean up manpage.example, and install new examples of man pages written
+    in POD and DocBook SGML (closes: #96781).
+  * Include /var/cache/man directory in the .deb. I probably won't install
+    anything beneath that manually, as it's better that mandb creates them
+    on the fly as required (closes: #75868).
+  * Part of 2.3.18-7 accidentally got lost in 2.3.19-1. Here it is again:
+    - configure.in falls back to standard paths for col, grap, lynx, and
+      vgrind, so we don't need those as build dependencies any more.
+  * Make lexgrog no longer misfire on lowercase versions of the various
+    groff requests that indicate the use of tbl, eqn, etc.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon,  6 Aug 2001 02:04:17 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.19-4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Look up the correct character set each time a page is displayed, not
+    just the first time (closes: #104350).
+  * Check for more translations of the NAME section (cs, fi, hu, nl, and pl,
+    plus of course Latin; closes: #104352).
+  * Add debconf translations:
+    - German (thanks, Sebastian Rittau; closes: #104295).
+    - Brazilian Portugese (thanks, Andre Luis Lopes; closes: #105359).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 16 Jul 2001 16:48:07 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.19-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Allow whatis entries to point to themselves. This sometimes happens when
+    multiple names and descriptions are present, and it's easier to tolerate
+    this.
+  * Prepend to $LESS rather than appending to it, so that long options work
+    (closes: #83594).
+  * Set the modification time of each cat page to be the same as that of the
+    corresponding man page, and regenerate cat pages if the modtime differs
+    rather than if it's newer (closes: #22358, #93659).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:24:41 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.19-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * A bracketing typo made determine_lang_table() never detect anything
+    except the fallback language. This completely broke at least Japanese
+    (closes: #103808).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sat,  7 Jul 2001 16:36:20 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.19-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * The "laptop envy (damn tbm for having a nicer one than me)" release.
+
+  * New upstream release. Highlights:
+    - Security fix: make sure decisions about whether to drop privileges are
+      never taken based on the user configuration file ~/.manpath.
+    - The ordering of manual sections is now configurable at run-time, using
+      SECTION directives in the configuration file. This should kill the
+      last traces of the old 9term(1) bug (closes: #3766, yay!).
+    - man will no longer try to keep its database caches up to date, even if
+      it's setuid. No more speed problems, we hope! Instead, it will fall
+      back to file globbing if database lookups fail. Whatis references will
+      no longer work if the database isn't up to date enough to contain
+      them, but I filed bugs on all packages this affects a while ago.
+    - The globbing is done per-section, so newly installed manual pages will
+      be noticed properly now (closes: #10106).
+    - Thanks to some code from another man program, manual pages are now
+      formatted to an appropriate line length when viewed on a terminal.
+      Non-standard sizes aren't saved as cat pages. Page lengths are already
+      resized with recent versions of groff (closes: #25410, #53993).
+    - mandb(8) now documents how whatis parsing might fail (closes: #77727).
+    - Whatis parsing treats fill requests correctly (closes: #97916) and
+      ignores the no-op groff request '.' (closes: #101330).
+    - Avoid infinite recursion if the database is corrupted such that an
+      entry points to itself, which I believe shouldn't happen any more
+      anyway (closes: #102181).
+    - Let mandb update system databases as root as well as the man user
+      (closes: #102250).
+    - Downgrade warning if a manpath element doesn't exist to a debugging
+      message (closes: #102402); likewise for the warning about relying on
+      whatis refs being deprecated (see #102678).
+    - Fixed some details of parsing NAME sections with multiple names in man
+      pages with multiple symlinks to them (closes: #102678).
+    - mandb knows how to delete obsolete entries from the database now,
+      which should help to clean up the effects of old bugs like the above.
+      This can be disabled with --no-purge.
+
+  * Add Spanish debconf translation (thanks, Carlos Valdivia Yagüe;
+    closes: #102156).
+  * Add 'mandb --no-purge' invocation in cron.daily, so that apropos and
+    whatis will continue to work mostly as expected. Since --create isn't
+    used any more, it should be quite fast. This should alleviate most
+    problems caused by turning off automatic database updates. A cron.weekly
+    entry remains which also purges old database entries.
+  * Add SECTION entries for 3pm and 3perl to make sure Perl modules come
+    before core (this was formerly set at compile-time).
+  * The .deb doesn't contain setuid binaries any more, so remove the lintian
+    overrides.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Thu,  5 Jul 2001 16:13:37 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.18-10) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix handling of symlinks pointing outside a mantree to relative .so
+    links, which should then be interpreted as pointing back inside the
+    mantree (ugh). ult_src() relied on a restriction I removed in 2.3.17.1-5
+    (closes: #101559).
+  * Fix format string bug in zsoelim (closes: #102001).
+  * Use start-stop-daemon instead of su in cron.daily too (closes: #101892).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sat, 23 Jun 2001 16:07:39 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.18-9) unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * While configuring, if the database is missing and we aren't setuid,
+    don't build it; it will probably get out of date quickly anyway. This
+    involves substantial debconf rearrangements, and I examine the seen flag
+    so I need debconf (>= 0.5). Urgency high because the boot-floppies were
+    having trouble with mandb starting in the background (closes: #100616).
+  * When starting mandb in the background, use start-stop-daemon rather than
+    su to avoid spurious syslog output. --nicelevel needs dpkg (>= 1.8.0).
+
+  * manpath(1): s/semicolon/colon/ (thanks, Gordon Sadler; closes: #100362).
+  * Comment out code supporting the man page hierarchy organization of other
+    operating systems, as it sometimes misfires on Debian (e.g. dpkg(8) vs.
+    dpkg.rb(1)). This will be solved more neatly upstream (closes: #99766).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 13 Jun 2001 16:08:04 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.18-8) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Fix infinite loop in pathappend() if man pages are present for both a
+    given language and that language with a country code (closes: #100119).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Fri,  8 Jun 2001 18:13:36 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.18-7) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Folded in changelog entry from 2.3.16-4 security update. The backport
+    was from upstream 2.3.18, so the vulnerability didn't apply to unstable.
+  * Allow .PP etc. as well as .br between whatis definitions (e.g. pod2man).
+  * Make straycats use 'col -bx' rather than 'col-bx' (thanks, Matt Kraai;
+    closes: #98923).
+  * The response to the above was a rather excessive exit(). straycats
+    should now continue gracefully instead (thanks, Andrew Suffield).
+  * Fix silly date format in man-db's English man pages.
+  * pathappend() now eliminates duplicate manpaths (closes: #99667).
+  * configure.in falls back to standard paths for col, grap, lynx, and
+    vgrind, so we don't need those as build dependencies any more.
+  * groff has been split! Depend on the base package, suggest the others.
+  * The previous fix for #47000 only worked for read-only directories, not
+    read-only filesystems. Fix it harder.
+  * gettext seems to be broken with the new autoconf. Hack it for now.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed,  6 Jun 2001 18:27:24 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.18-6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Note in man-db/build-database and man-db/rebuild-database templates that
+    the build will happen in the background and possibly slow down
+    installation of other packages (closes: #71931).
+  * Bump priority of man-db/rebuild-database (not man-db/build-database)
+    question to medium.
+
+  * Various updates from CVS for autoconf 2.50.
+  * Avoid autoconf build-dep by touching configure and stamp-h.in in build
+    and clean (ugh - remember to run the autotools manually).
+  * Improved configure's checks for Berkeley DB to correctly handle newer
+    headers with dbopen() defined as a macro (thanks, Duncan Simpson).
+
+  * Fix a thinko in whatis parsing that meant "foo," would sometimes be
+    stored in the database alongside "foo".
+  * If we can't write to a cat page (e.g. man isn't setuid), don't bother to
+    open a compressor to /dev/null, so that man can abort straight away
+    rather than formatting whole pages into the bit-bucket when a user quits
+    the pager early (closes: #98528).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sat, 26 May 2001 20:26:25 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.18-5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Remove /usr/bin/man and /usr/bin/mandb on prerm remove (closes: #98221).
+  * Stop using statoverrides in the postinst, as it's too hard to tell
+    between maintainer-script-installed overrides and admin-installed
+    overrides. Instead use ordinary chown/chmod (thanks, Michal Politowski;
+    closes: #98224).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 21 May 2001 22:52:05 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.18-4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Call db_stop in the postinst, just to be safe. I have a feeling
+    redirecting stdout and stderr to /dev/null when running mandb might not
+    be enough.
+  * Don't remove catdirs in the postinst, even if we're upgrading from old
+    versions that did that.
+  * Remove some output in the postinst - whoops. Upgrades from <= 2.3.17.1-5
+    to 2.3.18-3 were probably broken.
+  * If it turns out that we have to (re)build the database, ask a
+    low-priority debconf question about it (defaulting to yes). Rebuilding
+    should happen much less often now in any case (closes: #74579).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 20 May 2001 19:34:55 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.18-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * So, I flame Peter T. Breuer on Usenet for his bug report being several
+    bugs rolled up into one and being full of flamage itself. Then I think,
+    well, since I'm ranting about it, I may as well see if I can fix it. Of
+    course, it now turns out that fixing that was key to a load of other
+    bugs. So I apologize to Peter and promise, again, to write the code
+    before spouting off in future. :)
+  * If opening a database or a cat page fails due to a lack of permissions
+    (e.g. a read-only partition), recover gracefully and only complain about
+    it in debug mode (addresses part of bug #47000).
+  * Improved documentation of MANDB_MAP directives in /etc/manpath.config
+    (addresses the other part of that bug, so closes: #47000).
+
+  * Once man and mandb don't complain about certain classes of permission
+    problems, it becomes easy to install them non-setuid. Since in this mode
+    man can't write cat pages or update the database on the fly, non-setuid
+    is the default but a debconf question asks whether to install them
+    setuid. I hope this meets the concerns about man-db's security policy
+    (closes: #42128).
+  * As well as the above, the recent security updates should have made sure
+    that man and mandb drop privileges at the right times, and so can read
+    privately-owned directories (closes: #42479, #42791).
+  * In non-setuid mode there's no need to use the root-squashing wrapper.
+    I'm not going to close related bugs yet, as they're still present for
+    those who install setuid; I still intend to split the setuid stuff out
+    into a separate process and remove the wrapper entirely.
+  * The postinst and cron.weekly now explicitly su to man to run mandb,
+    since the wrapper might not be present.
+  * If searching for a page in the database returns no output, check the
+    filesystem anyway, as the database might not be up to date.
+
+  * Tidied up parsing of multiple whatis keys in .SH NAME sections, so that
+    each separate name gets assigned its own whatis entry correctly.
+    Separating items in the NAME section with newlines remains unsupported,
+    as at the moment man pages can get away with spreading their whatis
+    description over multiple lines and I'd rather not break them
+    gratuitously. However, multiple items will be recognized (and have been
+    for a long time, albeit brokenly up to now) if they are separated by a
+    .br (break) request. *roff doesn't normally do much with newlines in the
+    middle of paragraphs in its input, so this is consistent. See bug #97916
+    for more details (closes: #17735).
+
+  * Updated tools/config.sub to know about the sh/sheb architectures.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sat, 19 May 2001 19:29:39 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.18-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * man would segfault if the argument to -S contained only colons, and
+    incidentally treated an empty argument to -S wrongly. Both cases now use
+    the standard list of sections instead (thanks, Colin Phipps and Stephen
+    Shirley; closes: #97553, #97566).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 15 May 2001 19:36:12 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.18-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release, incorporating changes from Wilf's 2.3.11 and
+    2.3b12 releases as well as all my upstream-relevant changes to date. At
+    long last the Debian diff is a manageable size.
+  * Build the manual from the original nroff source. HTML is gone for now,
+    until I can get satisfactory output from grohtml.
+  * Remove build dependency on html2text as a result of the above.
+  * Build-depend on lynx, as configure checks for its path.
+  * jgroff no longer exists, so drop the alternative dependency on it.
+  * Remove debian/rules cruft to generate configure, which is now definitely
+    built upstream.
+
+  * The configuration file is now partially automatically generated, and is
+    called man_db.conf upstream. The Debian package still uses
+    manpath.config for now to save me having to do the hacking necessary to
+    move a conffile.
+  * According to FHS 2.1, the location of locally installed man pages is
+    /usr/local/share/man rather than /usr/local/man. The upstream
+    configuration file now has /usr/local/man mapped to
+    /var/cache/man/oldlocal and /usr/local/share/man mapped to
+    /var/cache/man/local. Move .../local to .../oldlocal in the postinst to
+    save regenerating cat pages.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 15 May 2001 00:00:56 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.17.1-5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Formally took over upstream maintenance. No release yet, but updated
+    debian/copyright with new location of upstream source (and also Wilf's
+    distribution site for old sources).
+  * Generate man-db-manual.txt from man-db-manual.html at build time using
+    html2text, rather than including it in the diff. (The next upstream
+    release will have both generated from the original nroff source.)
+  * Don't run configure in the clean rule, and ignore errors due to not
+    finding the makefile. In normal autobuilds it just wastes time.
+
+  * Bumped database format version to 2.3.2. This really should have been
+    done a long time ago.
+  * If database information is found to be in an old format, then ignore it
+    and use the filesystem instead. mandb will fix it up when it's run, as
+    it is in the postinst (although this may well become optional soon).
+  * Explicitly close the database if the version number is wrong, so that
+    the above works.
+  * Lower warnings about wrong version numbers to debugging messages.
+  * All hail debootstrap for making the testing above so painless!
+
+  * Taught lexgrog how to detect grap and vgrind. Preprocessor lines (with
+    '\", see man(1)) are no longer strictly necessary for these. It's still
+    good practice to declare what preprocessors your man page needs if it
+    uses any - even tbl - for compatibility with older versions of man.
+  * History updates for the man pages.
+  * Made accessdb check for /var/cache/man in preference to /var/catman, and
+    updated the man page accordingly. (Incidentally, I'd have preferred it
+    if the Japanese translator hadn't improvised text that wasn't in the
+    English version, as now I don't know how to update it to keep up with
+    this change. Please don't do this in future.)
+  * Fixed the --test option to mandb (it really doesn't alter existing
+    databases now), and documented it. It should be almost feasible to use
+    it for lintian checks now, if need be (closes: #5360).
+  * Generate a warning if displaying a page requires going through a whatis
+    reference with no link in the filesystem. Supporting this is necessarily
+    a major performance hog; see policy bug #94995 for more information.
+  * Removed code preventing symlinks outside a mantree from working. I can't
+    see how it's a security problem, and in some situations (e.g. stow) such
+    symlinks are useful (closes: #94642).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sat,  5 May 2001 00:19:00 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.17.1-4) unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * Drop privileges in mandb when creating a temporary database in a
+    user-supplied manual hierarchy. Thanks to Ethan Benson for observing
+    this vulnerability.
+  * This was also fixed in 2.3.16-3 in potato; folded in changelog entries
+    from security updates.
+
+  * I noticed a stray /etc/cron.weekly/catman on my system. Although it was
+    definitely from this package, I can't quite work out from the changelog
+    when it was removed. At any rate, it's obsolete, so clean it up.
+  * Removed a spurious space in accessdb's usage output.
+  * whatis/apropos: Complain and exit immediately if a key in the database
+    is missing its value, indicating database corruption. Also disable
+    optimized btree walk for now, as seq() seems to be more tolerant of this
+    than get() for reasons I haven't tracked down yet (closes: #95052).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 30 Apr 2001 23:53:42 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.17.1-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Move the wrapper from /usr/bin/man-wrapper to /usr/lib/man-db/wrapper,
+    since there's no reason to execute it directly. This also means we can
+    lose man-wrapper(1), which wasn't terribly informative anyway.
+  * Make "bad symlink" output quieter (2.3.17.1-1 made it noisier by
+    mistake).
+  * Use the latin1 character set again for the C and POSIX locales.
+  * Updated Japanese translations (thanks, UCHIDA Norihiro; closes: #76774).
+    The ja_JP.ujis directory is still present, as a Debian diff can't remove
+    it. I'll remove it in the next upstream release.
+  * The order of locale variable checking was corrected some time ago by
+    calling setlocale(LC_ALL, ""). Added support for the case where
+    LC_MESSAGES is set differently from other categories, and for selecting
+    multiple locale preferences with LANGUAGE (thanks, Claudio S. Suarez
+    Sanchez and Tomohiro KUBOTA; closes: #40743).
+  * Correct first line of /etc/manpath.config (closes: #94090).
+  * Make /etc/manpath.config a dpkg-handled conffile and dispose of the hack
+    to convert old configuration files to the FHS.
+    /usr/share/man-db/chconfig is still there if people want to use it.
+  * util-linux (essential) has provided /usr/bin/pager since version 2.7.1-1
+    in September 1997. I think we can safely assume it's there now.
+  * Don't preserve the configure script any more; just generate it each
+    time. It should go in the next upstream tarball.
+  * Updated --version output, and fixed configure to find the version number
+    properly.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:23:30 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.17.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Really fix makefile permissions. It looks like makefile was only in the
+    Debian diff, not the .orig.tar.gz, so there's no need to preserve it to
+    avoid a massive diff (closes: #90302 again).
+  * Just update the database in cron.weekly rather than creating it from
+    scratch. If the database format changes, the postinst will sort it out;
+    if the database becomes corrupt, you're going to want to fix it more
+    quickly than next week anyway (closes: #39842).
+  * 'apropos -w' really does wildcard matches now (thanks, KAMBAYASHI
+    Hiroyuki; closes: #77624).
+  * Updated docs/ToDo (using zlib rather than gzip would be good).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun,  1 Apr 2001 14:37:28 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.17.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New maintainer. Fabrizio, may the road rise up to meet you.
+  * Might as well acknowledge my NMUs (closes: #41915, #60084, #60867;
+    closes: #61198, #71797, #71932, #72292, #76107, #78086, #83019, #84128;
+    closes: #84334, #84926, #85049, #85314, #85421, #85463, #85812, #86108;
+    closes: #86892, #87195, #87420, #87541).
+
+  * Converted to debhelper, and otherwise substantially rewrote the build
+    process. debian/{p.skeleton,policy,source-depends} are gone, and
+    debian/conffiles too as debhelper v3 handles that.
+  * Unfortunately, much of the debian/ directory was in the upstream
+    tarball, and dpkg-source ignores deletions. To get around this, I made a
+    new "upstream" tarball, which is identical to 2.3.17 except without the
+    debianization (hence the sub-sub-minor revision).
+  * debian/rules:
+    - Preserve ownership and permissions while copying files in the clean
+      target to avoid inadvertent root ownership (closes: #90302).
+    - Really set LDFLAGS, and pass it at the build stage rather than in
+      configure so that I can get unstripped binaries easily.
+    - DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=debug was broken due to missing quotes. Fixed.
+  * debian/{pre,post}{inst,rm}:
+    - Reformatted somewhat and removed things debhelper does already.
+    - Removed call to update-menus in postrm.
+    - Only rebuild the database when the database format has changed or the
+      database is missing, and only remove catpages on purge. Hacked preinst
+      to deal with old packages' postrms removing catpages unconditionally.
+    - No need to su to run mandb; man-wrapper will sort that out.
+    - Clean up a cron job left around from the old man package in rex
+      (closes: #67000).
+  * Updated policy version to 3.5.2: no changes required.
+  * Depend on bsdmainutils rather than just suggesting it. Users might
+    legitimately want stray cats (pages, that is ...) on their system, even
+    if they aren't installed by Debian packages (closes: #64183).
+  * Added lintian overrides (setuid-binary /usr/lib/man-db/{man,mandb} 4755
+    man/root).
+  * Clarified manpage.example (thanks, Kevin Ryde; closes: #52525).
+
+  * Call setlocale() with LC_ALL rather than LC_MESSAGES (patch from GOTO
+    Masanori; closes: #75559). If somebody with experience of locale
+    programming could tell me whether the patch in #40743 makes sense, it
+    would be much appreciated.
+  * The Perl maintainer is putting core Perl module man pages in the .3perl
+    namespace, so that should follow .3pm (to allow vendor pages to shadow
+    core). Added that to include/manconfig.h.in.
+  * Significantly improved man's behaviour when new packages are installed
+    and it decides to rescan the man hierarchies. Its logic for working out
+    what pages it had seen before and put in its database didn't quite cope
+    with symlinks, so every link to undocumented(7) and so on got rescanned
+    and gunzipped. Fixed the logic in all but pathological cases (.so links
+    to symlinks, say, but Don't Do That Then). If a lot of manual pages have
+    been changed recently, it still reads them all, but this should be a lot
+    less painful now.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sat, 31 Mar 2001 18:07:46 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.17-3.2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  * Quieten cron.weekly again. Even if I'd remembered --quiet, it will still
+    report real errors in the man page hierarchy, such as broken symlinks;
+    there are quite a lot of those in Debian right now, and it isn't
+    important enough to mail root about it every week (will reopen #28828,
+    but closes: #87541).
+  * Change to the root directory so cron.daily doesn't get "Permission
+    denied" (closes: #87195, #87694).
+  * More *roff and /dev/null fixes in configure. This one restores the
+    mandoc macros so that PostScript output looks sensible again
+    (closes: #87420).
+  * Build-depend on grap and vgrind so we always get paths to them.
+  * Improved description of -M option in man page (closes: #71932).
+  * Corrected a couple of "it's" -> "its" typos.
+  * The FHS transition took place almost two years ago, but the code for
+    updating manpath.config is still around. The configuration file is now
+    only updated when the previous version of man-db was earlier than
+    2.3.10-69j, and config_md5 is no longer dynamically updated in
+    debian/rules based on the current build machine. Also move chconfig and
+    config_md5 into /usr/share/man-db.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 28 Feb 2001 21:02:41 +0000
+
+man-db (2.3.17-3.1) unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  * Apply patch for format string vulnerability (thanks, Colin Phipps and
+    Martin Schulze; closes: #84128, #84334, #85314).
+  * Migrate from suidregister to dpkg-statoverride (closes: #85049, #86108).
+  * Do the 'make install' step manually in debian/rules. On a clock-skewed
+    machine, the existing code would decide to rebuild the binaries and end
+    up hardwiring the temporary build directory into them. This caused
+    problems in an Alpha security upload; that was fixed binary-only, but
+    this should prevent it recurring (closes: #85421, #85463, #85812).
+  * Worked around change in nroff's behaviour for configure - it no longer
+    accepts /dev/null as an input file (thanks, Fumitoshi UKAI;
+    closes: #76107, #83019).
+
+  * Updated policy version to 3.5.1:
+    - Added build dependencies (closes: #61198). This includes a
+      build-depends on libdb2-dev after its split from glibc in glibc 2.2,
+      so there's now no need for special handling (closes: #41915).
+    - Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
+  * Clean the source package properly. As per the changelog comment in
+    2.3.17-2, I'll leave configure and makefile there, but other generated
+    files need to be removed or autobuilders may have random problems.
+  * Rename /usr/bin/wrapper to /usr/bin/man-wrapper until somebody makes it
+    generic (closes: #60084).
+  * Make man-db almost lintian-clean:
+    - Strip binaries.
+    - Wrote a brief man page for man-wrapper.
+    - Make /usr/bin/man and /usr/bin/mandb symlinks to man-wrapper to avoid
+      the mess of creating hardlinks in the postinst, which broke md5sums as
+      far as lintian was concerned. With statoverrides this doesn't leave a
+      window where man and mandb are setuid root.
+  * Check arguments to maintainer scripts so we don't do things like calling
+    mandb on a failed upgrade (closes: #60867).
+  * The test '-x $(which foo)' doesn't always do something predictable.
+    Replace it with better idioms where the maintainer scripts use it.
+  * perl-base is essential, so no need to check for perl being available.
+  * util-linux is essential, so no need to check for more being available.
+
+  * Fix segfault where apropos couldn't find an identifying string for a man
+    page (thanks, Les Schaffer; closes: #71797).
+  * Don't throw away errors in cron.weekly (closes: #28828).
+  * Make -s option to mandb really not check for stray cats
+    (closes: #78086).
+  * Run cron.daily as user man; mandb is already wrapped by man-wrapper, so
+    cron.weekly is fine (thanks, Wolfram Kleff; closes: #72292).
+  * If a gzip subprocess is interrupted and we clean up the temp file, make
+    sure we don't try to do it again in the atexit() hook (closes: #84926).
+  * Add another chdir() so that 'man -l' with a relative path to a
+    compressed man page works again.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 21 Feb 2001 00:54:47 +0000
+
+man-db (2.3.17-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Cadded chmod to have configure executable. Thanx to Roman Hodek.
+    This closes: #69226.
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Wed, 16 Aug 2000 17:06:31 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.17-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Commented away call to distclean_root in GNUmakefile: need to leave
+    the Makefile and configure in the tarball.
+  * Found and fixed subtle bug which made wrapper uselessly linked with
+    -ldb2. When invoked by root on a system which enables group.db, then
+    the call to initgroups() segfaults due to the libc link to libdb!
+    This closes: #65474.
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Fri,  7 Apr 2000 10:50:45 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.17-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Corrected apparent disappearing of option -e in apropos.
+  * Corrected wrong usage of undocumented option -X which produced error
+    when passed to filters. This is now parametrized as optional
+    argument, defaulting to use devX75.  Documented in usage :
+        -X = -TX75, -X100 = -TX100, -X100-12 = -TX100-12.
+  * Applyed patch submitted by Tomohiro KUBOTA:
+    * roff_device and LESSCHARSET are determined by user environment rather
+      than language of manpage for English manpage.
+    * roff_device "ascii8" is used for non-English/non-ISO-8859-1 languages.
+    Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.or.jp>  Sat, 22 Apr 2000 14:48:48 +0900
+    closes: #62844.
+    Because of this patch, changed versioned dependency to new groff.
+  * Added new check for libdb in configure.in
+  * Added /usr/local/{share/}man to config file, due to bug in FHS,
+    thanx to Gregor Hoffleit. Closes: #61058.
+  * Added new message catalog po file for cs (czech) (4 new messages),
+    thanx to Vladimir Michl.
+  * tired of people continously complaining that man behaves differently
+    than in RedHat (which is "The Reference Linux", you all know that),
+    I'll add tbl as default filter for man. This will fix those three
+    or four manpages that do not take the burden to declare their
+    dependency on the tbl formatter (usually because upstream uses
+    RedHat and so ...). Now what would I do if someone fill a bug
+    against this because of wasting of CPU cicles for un-necessary
+    filtering on the hundreds of pages that do not need tbl? I would
+    certainly agree with them. Therefore I will fix this introducing
+    scanning of manpages a la grog in mandb, and storing the result in
+    the database.  ...[noise of hacking and debugging]...  Well, I did
+    it (use accessdb to see it!). It took 4 weekend (stolen to the
+    implementation of man 2.4) to complete and debug. Now you can
+    announce the world that man-db 2.3.17 knows in advance which filters
+    to run when processing a manpage which is in the database.
+    This rant closes: #63497; be happy!:wq
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Fri,  7 Apr 2000 10:50:45 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.16-4) stable; urgency=high
+
+  * Backport another security fix from unstable.
+  * Count how many times privileges have been dropped, and don't regain them
+    until regain_effective_privs() is called the same number of times. The
+    lack of nesting meant it was still possible to create files owned by uid
+    man (thanks, Luki R.; closes: #99624).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Fri,  1 Jun 2001 23:50:31 +0000
+
+man-db (2.3.16-3) stable; urgency=high
+
+  * The last upload regained privileges too early; an attacker could
+    potentially remove execute permissions from files owned by man. My
+    apologies for not detecting this earlier.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:53:05 +0000
+
+man-db (2.3.16-2) stable; urgency=high
+
+  * Security upload by new maintainer.
+  * Drop privileges in mandb when creating a temporary database in a
+    user-supplied manual hierarchy. Thanks to Ethan Benson for observing
+    this vulnerability.
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Sun, 29 Apr 2001 23:10:24 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.16-1.1) stable; urgency=high
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload by Security Team
+  * Fixed unquoted throughpassing of format strings that could crash man
+
+ -- Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de>  Thu,  8 Feb 2001 23:27:53 +0100
+
+man-db (2.3.16-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * Applyed patch submitted by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena to permit
+    search of trnlated manpages before giving the first english one
+    found. Closes: #61697.
+  * Forgot the ignore dash in tags target in debian/rules, which made it
+    adding a non necessary source dependance.  Closes: #61199.
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:00:16 +0200
+
+man-db (2.3.15) frozen unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * Just recompiled, with an upgraded potato system.
+    Let's see if this wipes away the grave installation problem listed
+    in bugs #60339, #60399, #60411, #60515.
+    In that case, I'll close these bugs by hand :-)
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:00:16 +0200
+
+man-db (2.3.14) frozen unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * if unconfigured, it install binaries setuid root!
+    also closes: #32213.
+  * Forgot to put different md5sum for man and mandb in md5sums file.
+    debsums was failing on them as they were modifyed by postinst.
+    Closes: #59677, #60023 thanx to Lee Maguire.
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Mon,  6 Mar 2000 12:35:35 +0200
+
+man-db (2.3.13) frozen unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Applied patch to avoid disappearing of index file during
+    regeneration. Thanx to Colin Phipps, closes: #58887.
+  * Applied patch to generate secure temporary file in straycat.
+    Thanx to Colin Phipps, closes: #58900.
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:09:05 +0200
+
+man-db (2.3.12) frozen unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Applied security patch for forcing regeneration of secure temp file
+    instead of reusing it. Thanx to Colin Phipps who audited it and
+    submitted a patch. Closes: #58271.
+  * Written new wrapper in C. It installs as /usr/bin/wrapper and is
+    hardlinked to man and mandb while configuring. The package installs
+    a one line script (as /usr/bin/man and /usr/bin/mandb) that simply
+    inform that the package is not configured; it is removed by postinst
+    and replaced by hardlinks with /usr/bin/wrapper.
+    Thanx to Ethan Benson, Colin Phipps.
+  * Simply incremented minor number, to make Josip Rodin happy.
+    Not only it is a native Debian package, but is is also a "new
+    upstream release"(TM)  :-)  (and yes, I've changed the version
+    number also in configure.in :-)
+  * Added explicit proto in straycat.c as now libc has canonicalize_file_name().
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Tue, 22 Feb 2000 16:41:33 +0200
+
+man-db (2.3.10-71) frozen unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * after exaustive discussion of debian-devel, the wrapper script has
+    been fixed. Thanx to Ethan Benson, Marcus Brinkman, Petr Cech.
+    Closes #57566.
+  * added double dependency to groff or jgroff.
+  * added updated cs po file and a small fix to avoid a warning, thanx
+    to the precious contribution of Vladimir Michl.
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Tue,  8 Feb 2000 17:01:36 +0200
+
+man-db (2.3.10-70) frozen unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * security fix: moved setuid binaries to /usr/lib/man-db and added
+    shell wrapper to execute as user nobody when invoked by root.
+    This would avoid having anybody running man as root, or cron running
+    mandb.
+  * Added more granularity in the "quietness" of mandb, and added option
+    test to simply check the correctness of manpages, to allow lintian
+    and/or dh_install_manpages to report warnings.
+  * fixed a typo in spanish message catalog.
+    Thanx to Jose Dapena Paz, closes: #56204.
+  * added (but not enabled) new option -H (-Thtml) to take advantage of
+    new html driver (still experimental but getting better) in groff.
+  * as a consequence, added versioned dependency to groff >= 1.15
+  * corrected location of GPL in copyright file.
+  * corrected headers in po files for it and de.
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Fri, 14 Jan 2000 13:49:42 +0200
+
+man-db (2.3.10-69s) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * added symlinks for /usr/doc (in postinst and prerm).
+  * changed installation of japanes manpages to dir "ja".
+  * Corrected incomplete apply of HURD patch. Closes: #48052.
+  * Changed configure.in and libdb/mydbm.h to force inclusion
+    of correct db_185.h header. Thanx to Marcus Brinkmann.
+  * Corrected use of setlocale in files other that man.c;
+    closes: #48128, thanx to "David Huggins-Daines".
+    also closes: #48495.
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Sat, 16 Oct 1999 03:33:23 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.10-69r) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Modified utility accessdb to default to FHS location of the cache.
+  * Reduced verbosity of mandb when -q option is used; thanx to
+    Francesco Potorti` <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>; closes: #28819.
+  * corrected location of manual in menu and use of doc-base.
+    Thanx to "J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)" <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>
+    closes: #47434.
+  * applied patch for locale setting (also to manpath and whatis), and
+    for inclusion of locale dirs in path. Thanx to Michael Sobolev
+    <mss@transas.com> and to Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>;
+    closes: #46853.
+  * Added message catalog in French, translated by Laurent Pelecq
+    <laurent.pelecq@wanadoo.fr>, but mainly thanx to Raphael Hertzog who
+    made this possible (I tried several times :-)
+    Now, when we'll get also the manpages in French?
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Sat, 16 Oct 1999 03:33:23 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.10-69p) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * added default LESSCHARSET for latin1 in case of no LANG.
+    thanx to <lowe@asel.udel.edu>, closes: #46628.
+  * Added manpages in japanese, translated by Takeo NAKANO
+    <nakano@apm.seikei.ac.jp>, thanx to
+    nabetani@kern.phys.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp, closes: #46600
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Mon,  4 Oct 1999 16:15:52 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.10-69o) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * re-established correct behaviour for -t option, thanx to Roland
+    Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.de>, closes: #46592.
+  * this part was in 69n, but I forgot the ':'
+  * all manpage locations doubled because of a slash :-)
+    thanx to Lazarus Long and Wichert Akkerman.
+    Closes: #46448, #46497.
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Mon,  4 Oct 1999 13:30:25 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.10-69m) unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * grave: it looks like acting in the postinst as dpkg does for generic
+    conffiles brakes man, which mow cannot work without that file.
+    I don't know if this is a bug per-se (man should run even without
+    config file), but I've changed the postinst to default on copying
+    the current config file.
+    Closes: #46363, #46367 (and several others, while it reaches the
+    mirrors?)
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Fri,  1 Oct 1999 10:37:46 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.10-69k) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * problems with locale.
+    modified check of locale directory to try all combinations.
+    This should permit installing in xx while using LANG=xx_XX.YYY
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Wed, 29 Sep 1999 18:57:16 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.10-69j) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * made compliant to policy 3.0.1
+  * Gone through a quick check of all bugs (61!):
+    Problems fixed in previous releases, but never closed:
+    closes: #35336, #20949, #21016, #21240, #23239, #23267, #24267,
+    #24604, #24691, #25825, #26002, #26038, #26077, #26222, #26465,
+    #27858, #32036, #32759, #33679, #34643, #41748.
+  * removed setuid permissions from file in tarball, as postinst handle
+    them properly. Closes #32213.
+  * changed the copyright file to point out that the author has passed
+    maintainership. Also changed location of his ftp site.
+    closes #41737, #30153.
+  * found (and fixed) nasty bug in reading config file that
+    segfaulted on too large files. Now stops reading and procede.
+  * Added japanese support. Thanx to Taketoshi
+    Sano <sano@debian.org> and Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>.
+    Closes: Bug#38107.
+  * partially eliminated feature to display file when manpage is
+    not found, limiting it only when the argument is a pathname
+    containing the character '/'.
+    closes: #41205, #41715, #45979.
+  * created perl script /usr/lib/man-db/chconfig that scans the
+    file in argument (the man confile) and upgrade it to FHS.
+    Its call from postinst is checked also against perl presence.
+  * removed /etc/manpath.config from conffiles;
+    added in postinst automatic copy of it if the existing one isn't
+    being modified, or using the new script to validate it and upgrade
+    to FHS. Treat correctly absence of the config file (??) and allow
+    insertion of keyword NOFHS in /etc/manpath.config to avoid its
+    update.
+  * added list of md5sums from previous conffiles, to help detect
+    unmodified ones. Added to rules file the automatic adding of
+    a new md5 if a new conffile is created.
+    (so maintainers don't have to maintain it)
+  * added Japanese message catalog, curtesy of
+    Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>; closes: bug#43845.
+  * added corrected translations in Italian, thanx to
+    Giovanni Bortolozzo <borto@dei.unipd.it>
+  * changed tests in configure.in to detect new libdb installed from
+    glibc. Closes: bug#39646
+  * corrected typos in control file, thanx to Richard Braakman
+    <dark@xs4all.nl>, closes: bug#39687
+  * corrected use of LANG in locale.
+    thanx to ypwong@debian.org, closes: bug#39281.
+  * added patch for HURD for canonicalize_file_name thanx to
+    Marcus Brinkmann (brinkmd@debian.org), closes: bug#39039.
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Wed,  9 Jun 1999 10:37:29 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.10-69i) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * In man-db -69i:
+  * In man-db -69FIX.1:
+   * Added unlink of temporary file between call to tempnam and open to
+     reduce (without completely avoiding it) the possibility that a
+     malicious user puts a dangling symlink to let man leave a file
+     (with a manpage inside :-) in places different that the temporary
+     directory. Not a security risk at all, IMO.
+   * Added secure open of temporary file in zsoelim.l , thanx to
+     Marc Heuse <marc@suse.de>. The code was not secure against a
+     symlink attack. This didn't affect 'man', which does not excute
+     that part of the code, but only manual execution of zsoelim.
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Wed,  9 Jun 1999 10:37:29 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.10-69h) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * In man-db -69h:
+   * Corrected problem that did not permit finding local manpages as
+     default (without -l , as added in version -69g) if the pathname was
+     not an absolute pathname. (found by me :-)
+   * avoided error message "file not found" in case of failed
+     local search as default after failed search ob database.
+     Thanx to <jpt@cif.rochester.edu>, closes bug#37882.
+   * added new czech message catalog, thanx to Vladimir Michl
+     <Vladimir.Michl@seznam.cz>
+   * updated manual page man(1), example section, to make more clear
+     that man -k and man -f *runs* apropos and whatis.
+     Closes: #35741.
+   * updated usage string and manual page for apropos, to reflect the
+     use of -r as default, and the addition of -e to get the previous
+     behaviour.
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Fri,  9 Apr 1999 10:49:11 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.10-69g) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * In man-db -69g:	Mon,  5 Apr 1999 20:27:12 +0300
+   * corrected typo in aclocal.m4 that made detection of broken pclose
+     unavailable for configure. Thanx to UNO Takeshi <uno@sysplan.co.jp>
+     for the report and the patch. Closes: #35608.
+   * Added ability to suppose -l when no manpage is available; this
+     enhancement was requested in bug#19999 and #23567
+   * Added patch to fix bug#25270 (uninitialized var which made ignore
+     the config file) thanx to cph@martigny.ai.mit.edu (Chris Hanson)
+     for the report and the patch. This problem was also described by
+     Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.rhein.de> in bug #30646.
+   * made czech message catalog available. When for manpages?
+  * In man-db -69f:	Thu,  1 Apr 1999 16:17:58 +0300
+   * corrected bug in manp.c introduced in 69e (missing xstrdup).
+     My apologizes. Closes: #35326, #35353, #35354 .
+     I hope it fixes also #35355 and #35336, but as I wasn't able to
+     reproduce it, I'm not able to test its fix :-)
+   * corrected typo in mandb.8 (/omitted/emitted/) (I remember having
+     fixed it already ... maybe I'm getting too old?)
+   * added message catalog in czech translated last year by
+     Vladimir.Michl@upol.cz and added using the wrong format and
+     later forgot. How can I be forgiven?
+  * In man-db -69e:
+   * Corrected typo in german messages file, thanx to Christian Hammers
+     <ch@lathspell.westend.com> for the hint.
+   * added enhancement to get manpath add default values from config
+     file to value in MANPATH env var according to presence of redundant
+     semicolon; suggested by Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> in
+     wishlist bug#19999.
+     TODO:
+     modify manpage, manual and so to describe new enhancement to
+     $MANPATH management; trailing or leading spare semicolon make add
+     the manpath derived from config files to the content of the var. A
+     double semicolon in the middle of the var makes insertion of the
+     rules derived into the var.
+   * added management of a user conf file ~/.manpath , with the same
+     syntax of /etc/manpath.conf, whose content is added to the default
+     conf file. It remains to be demonstrated if handling of cache works
+     as expected in all cases.
+     This enhancement, binded with the previous one, gives users
+     complete control over user managed mapages, which is quite more
+     needed out of Linux, in other OSes.
+  * In man-db -69d:
+   * Wrong change in manpath.config: it built two indexes for /usr/man
+     and /usr/share/man, and put both in /var/cache/man , so the second
+     overwrote the first. Thanx to Matthew Eaton, closes: #34636.
+  * In man-db -69c:
+   * put back the config file into /etc ... :-)
+   * found a bug in postinst that didn't rebuild the index.
+  * In man-db -69b:
+   * corrected lintian's error in menu file.
+   * modifyed cron.daily
+   * moved configuration file to /etc/menu/
+     created list of sections in /etc/menu/sections.list
+     The idea is to have mandb create it when scanning manpages.
+   * FHS compliance:
+    - add /usr/share/man in /etc/manpath.conf
+    - move /var/catman to /var/cache/man
+      * user's changes need manual update.
+      * absolutely DON'T SYMLINK /usr/man !! Otherways you'll get double
+        entries in the database.
+      * removed FSSTND keyword from manpath.conf and its handling in the
+        code, as it was a hack messing up names.
+    - start installing manpages in /usr/share/man
+      Don't worry about old packages installing into /usr/man .
+      man is designed to search pages on several directories!
+    - modify {pre,post}{inst,rm} scripts.
+  * TODO:
+   * modify docs (manpages and manual) to reflect these changes.
+   * raise bug to lintian to get a version that complains for manpages
+   * in /usr/man and recognize manpages in /usr/share/man .
+     .
+  * In man-db -69a: Sun,  7 Mar 1999 19:32:25 +0200
+   * Applyed (manually) patch to handle -l option (pipe from stdin)
+     Thanx to Peter Maydell <pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> who
+     wrote the patch.  (should fix: #3739, #21445)
+   * Modifyed apropos (and man -k ) behaviour to make -r option the
+     default, even in absence of the env POSIXLY_CORRECT.
+     Added option -e (--exact ) to permit the previous behaviour,
+     when the keywords match only full words in the descriptions.
+     Modifyed the usage of man and apropos.
+     Need to modify the manpages and the manual.
+     Thanx to Ian Jackson who posted the suggestion eons ago.
+     (should fix: #3788 )
+  * TODO:
+   * To fix bug #5360 (which is not a bug in man-db) I want to create
+     a manpage installer program that checks all the common errors
+     in manpages like broken symlinks, wrong section, wrong location,
+     missing of preprocessor directive in the first line and missing
+     of .SH NAME section.
+     This installer should also execute mandb to update the database (as
+     when man -u is issued), as the automatic detection of new manpages
+     doesn't work in case of multiple pages with the same name in
+     different sections (#10106).  This update should be done in
+     background after dpkg has finished.
+   * to fix bug #3766 ("man" acting too smart) I need to take out of the
+     sources the list of sections, and put it into the configuration
+     file. This is not trivial, as the list is dinamic, but mandb scans
+     all the pages in the system to collect descriptions, so I can use
+     that code to collect the list of sections, order it and write it
+     somewhere (=/var/cache/man/sections). Then man sources the list.
+   * I need to add an option to show the order in which sections are
+     processed while searching for a page. Actually this list is
+     hardwired in the source code. It should be in the config file AND
+     dinamically extended by mandb (which finds new sections). Splitting
+     the config file into a directory would improve this? Yes.
+   * For bug #11848 I should download glib sources, apply patches and
+     then look into "locale" source code to see how and from where it
+     takes the informations printed in line 'ctype-codeset-name' when I
+     issue the command 'locale -k LC_CTYPE'; then reproduce this inside
+     man.c and check the result. --ascii option should be assumed for
+     ISO8859 different from -0, -1, -3, -7, -9 .
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Sun,  7 Mar 1999 19:32:25 +0200
+
+man-db (2.3.10-69) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Corrected wrong set of terminal modes even when "not-a-tty".
+    (thanx to Alessandro Rubini for the report)
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Sun, 29 Nov 1998 01:01:54 +0200
+
+man-db (2.3.10-68) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Removed correction of return code, which made man ignore symlinks.
+    (closes: #26351 thanx to Branden Robinson <branden@purdue.edu> )
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Tue,  6 Oct 1998 17:49:28 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.10-67) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Corrected messaging for dangling symlink; also added correct
+    handling of return codes, so now there will be only one warning line
+    for each dangling symlink. (Thanx to Joey Hess, closes: #26141)
+  * Added forcing of umask to avoid uncorrect settings of catdirs.
+  * Added code to check for each single subcatdir, but, due to major
+    load, conditioned code only to mandb. That is to say that catdirs
+    are automagically created only by mandb.
+  * Removed "access" check in mandb which use the real user, making the
+    setuid binary a non-sense.
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Sat, 29 Aug 1998 16:32:30 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.10-66) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * added change of ownership in creating new catman hierarchy when done
+    by root. Thanks to Alexis Huxley for the detailed report.
+    (closes: #24691, #25825, #26002)
+  * corrected typo in mandb(8), tx to Richard Braakman, closes: #24296
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Fri, 15 May 1998 23:20:47 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.10-65) frozen unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * added correction to spanish translations supplied by Santiago Vila.
+    (closes: #21240)
+  * Added a check for the availability of the executable "mail" otherway the
+    postinst could fail.
+  * Modifyed the check for update-menus to be on a single line for lintian,
+    and to have safe exit point for failure of test.
+  * Cleaned cron.weekly from call to the no-more existent utility mkcatdirs,
+    whose presence make people (actually me, which is even worse) think that
+    catpages were purged weekly, which is no more the case since 2.3.10-60
+    Also lowered (from 7 to 6) the days of non-access to purge catpages,
+    because the weekly access for rebuilding the database would always keep
+    the atime lower than 7. (Thanx to Nicolás Lichtmaier for having tampered
+    me untill I noticed that :-)
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Tue,  7 Apr 1998 23:27:32 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.10-64) frozen unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * corrected bug in zsoelim.l that made it segfault (closes: #19746).
+    solved also another bug which didn't make it uncompress files.
+  * corrected typo in menu entry (closes: #20169)
+  * corrected linkage of zsoelin which included -ldb2 (unused).
+  * added Tom Christiansen's example of manpage.
+  * added corrections to spanish message catalog (Nicolás Lichtmaier and
+    Luis Francisco Gonzalez).
+  * corrected propagation of option -L in whatis/apropos.
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Wed, 11 Mar 1998 19:10:58 +0200
+
+man-db (2.3.10-63) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * changed i18n from catgen to gettext; I updated all po files, but
+    there are some entries empty.
+  * problems with i18n: added explicit check of environment instead of
+    trusting setlocale(); now man works with translated manpages.
+  * moved umask 022 from the shell command to the open of the temporary
+    file, to avoid errors in case of restrictive settings, due to the
+    open call added in -60
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Sun,  1 Mar 1998 23:20:41 +0200
+
+man-db (2.3.10-62) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * added check in configure that bsdmainutils is installed, so check
+    for col won't fail. closes: #18661, #18665. We absolutely need
+    source-depends, otherways autobuild won't work.
+    Version for libc5 was correctly built, so -59bo61 is OK.
+  * oops, wrong put of update-alternatives in postrm instead than prerm.
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Fri, 27 Feb 1998 10:42:04 +0200
+
+man-db (2.3.10-61) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * man-db (2.3.10-61) unstable; urgency=low
+  * man-db (2.3.10-59bo61) bo-unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Changed test in configure to fail if executed without a pager on a
+    Debian system.
+  * To avoid the error "pager: No such file" when a newer man is used
+    without upgrading any of the pagers in the system, I have added a
+    bogus pager "/usr/sbin/man-pager", which points to /bin/more,
+    installed through update-alternatives with a weight very light (1).
+    Probably the Right-Thing-To-Do (TM) is to add a VP "pager" and ask
+    all pager installing /usr/bin/pager to Provide: it (at least
+    util-linux). Later man-db could Depends: on it  :-)
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Thu, 26 Feb 1998 12:15:33 +0200
+
+man-db (2.3.10-60) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * man-db (2.3.10-60) unstable; urgency=low
+  * man-db (2.3.10-59bo60) bo-unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * created a new manpage for accessdb utility (lintian will be happy).
+  * slightly modifyed manpath(1) manpage to reflect changes in manpath
+    behaviour (back in version 2.3.10-39, #10039) about search for man
+    hierarchy in the current directory. Udated english, italian and
+    spanish pages; german ones are very old and need a complete reread.
+  * added (in src/manp.c) creation of catman hierarchies -on-the-fly-,
+    thus obsoleting all those scripts like mkcatdirs, and also modifying
+    pre,post scripts.  (closes: #15518, #14449);
+  * added checks in configure.in to determine if run on a debian system,
+    defining DEBIAN, DEBVER, DEBMAINT and putting them in config.h ;
+    removed old way to insert debian version number in the program.
+  * cleaned cron files (closes: #14810, #18208).
+  * (lintian): updated the debian/copyright file for FSF address;
+    deleted copyright of gencat utility (no more in binary).
+  * added a safer open for temp file in create_ztemp(), closes: #16371
+  * corrected menu file, (closes: #17352).
+  * added local date support for translated manpages into configure.in
+    and in the manpages (idea by Luis Francisco Gonzalez).
+  * added spanish manpages and catalogs
+      (thanx to Luis Francisco Gonzalez <luisgh@cogs.susx.ac.uk>,
+      Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@noah.dfis.ull.es>
+      and Cesar BALLARDINI <cballard@santafe.com.ar> ).
+  * build linking to libdb2
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Tue, 30 Dec 1997 17:13:09 +0200
+
+man-db (2.3.10-57) unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * (ver -57) => libc6 version, linked using libdb.a in libc6 and explicit -lc
+     man-db (2.3.10-57) unstable; urgency=high
+  * (ver -47) => still libc5 compiled under debian-1.3.1 ( =>experimental)
+     man-db (2.3.10-47) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * changed Standards-version to 2.3.0.1
+  * un-debstd-ized rules, postinst and postrm.
+  * Moved suidmanager call _before_ mandb run (should fix #14996),
+     but debstd still add his stuff at the end: need to stop it.
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Tue, 18 Nov 1997 20:52:44 +0200
+
+man-db (2.3.10-56) unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * (ver -56) => libc6 version, linked using libdb1 in libc6 and explicit -lc
+     man-db (2.3.10-56) unstable; urgency=high
+  * (ver -46) => still libc5 compiled under debian-1.3.1 ( =>experimental)
+     man-db (2.3.10-46b) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * found __big__ problem in libc6-dev that installs db1.85 with
+     soname 2, while old libdb1-dev package (from bo) is linked
+     with libc5 ... need to link statically to libdb.a to avoid
+     future problems when _true_ db2 will be installed.
+  * oops, in 55 (libc6) pager was left undefined (#14862, sigh)
+  * oops, missing accessdb as promised :-)
+  * changed tests on closed streams to detect more conditions.
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Sun, 16 Nov 1997 01:31:44 +0200
+
+man-db (2.3.10-55) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * (ver -55) => libc6 version, linked using libdb1 in libc6 and explicit -lc
+     man-db (2.3.10-55) unstable; urgency=low
+  * (ver -45) => still libc5 compiled under debian-1.3.1 ( =>experimental)
+     man-db (2.3.10-45) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * Added check of libdb (1 or 2) in configure.in with set of BTREE
+     to 1 or 2, changes in CFLAGS. Conditioned inclusion of db/db.h or
+     db_185.h to value in BTREE.
+  * Added open of stdin/stdout/stderr in man.c in case someone like
+     "info" closed them before exec-ing man. This corrupted the
+     database files, and later segfault in the db library.
+     (fixes bug#11278, #11469, #11471, #14181)
+  * Added /opt hierarchy in src/man_db.config (etc/manpath.config)
+  * Added tool accessdb in /usr/bin . No manual page (yet).
+  * Added option -S (safety mode) to pic in configure.in
+  * Changed default pager from more to "pager" in configure.in
+     (fixes#14254, thanks to Scott K. Ellis)
+  * Added resetting of pristine terminal setting when exiting
+     (#14174, thanks to Herbert Xu)
+  * Corrected error in the changelog for version 52, 53, 54
+     about linking against libdb2 (it was libdb from glibc2).
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Thu, 30 Oct 1997 00:24:55 +0200
+
+man-db (2.3.10-44) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * (ver -54) => libc6 version, linked using libdb2 and explicit -lc
+     man-db (2.3.10-54) unstable; urgency=low
+  * (ver -44) => still libc5 compiled under debian-1.3.1 ( =>experimental)
+     man-db (2.3.10-44) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * avoided bashism in debian/rules.
+  * deleted bogus files with spaces embedded in name (#13888)
+  * applied patch for alpha by <chris@beezer.med.miami.edu> #13851
+  * zsoelim.l - added new start condition to avoid expansion of .so
+     requests inside a macro definition. (fixes #2969 and #13812)
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Tue, 14 Oct 1997 11:00:53 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.10-53) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * (ver -53) => libc6 version, linked using libdb2 and explicit -lc
+     man-db (2.3.10-53) unstable; urgency=low
+  * (ver -43) => still libc5 compiled under debian-1.3.1 ( =>experimental)
+     man-db (2.3.10-43) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * added quote around var in mkcatdirs (fixes #13738, tx M.Konarski)
+  * added removal of tempfiles from handler for SIGINT
+     (fixes bug#13352 Thanks to John Goerzen)
+  * changed way to call groff adding -P-g so grops can guess a page size
+     (fixes #13563 uncorrectly assigned to groff, thx John Kallal)
+  * solved deletion of entries in index when skipping their display (#10483)
+  * wiped wrong message displayed when skipping display of manpage.
+  * avoided redundant searches for section names longer than one char.
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Tue, 30 Sep 1997 10:52:03 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.10-42) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * (ver -52) => libc6 version, linked using libdb2 and explicit -lc (#11706)
+  * (ver -42) => still libc5 compiled under debian-1.3.1 ( =>experimental)
+
+  * Added removal of tempfiles via atexit().
+  * restored original order in search sections (3 before 2) changed by
+     previous maintainer (don't know why) (#12192 thx Juan Cespedes)
+  * redirecting unusefull error messages in postrm and preinst (#12224)
+  * doesn't provide gencat anymore, but can't use libc6's gencat. (#9841)
+  * Changed tests in postinst to work with ash (#12212 thx Herbert Xu)
+  * Changed define of debian version for use in non-debian systems
+     (thanx to Albert Chin-A-Young); added file include/version.h
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Mon, 18 Aug 1997 10:26:10 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.10-41) unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * oops, -40 was linked against libgdbm1. (need a symlink db.h ->db/db.h
+  * rebuild using (and dependent from) libdb1_1.85.4-4 with security
+     fix. This shouldn't make any difference (man.db doesn't use snprintf)
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Sun, 17 Aug 1997 15:16:59 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.10-40) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Still libc5 version.
+  * (Italian version) Minori correzioni a mandb.m da parte di Borto.
+  * several corrections to it's => its typos in manpages [man(1), manpath(1),
+     zsoelim(1), mandb(8)] Fixes Bug#11440 thanx to David Damerell.
+  * Restore correct NAMN swedish parse for whatis (bug introduced by me
+     fixing #6497 on version -34) Thanx to John F. Bunch. (fixes bug#12069)
+  * Fixed segfault using an empty arg to -S option (Bug#12074, Thx Herbert Thielen)
+  * Fixed wrong manpath behaviour (Bug#10377, Thanx to Michael Lachmann)
+  * reduced output in postinst (Bug#11902).
+  * included execution of chmanconfig (which adds MANDB_MAP lines for lang
+     manpages) inside mkcatdirs (which creates catdir hierarchies).
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Thu, 14 Aug 1997 13:16:43 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.10-39) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * added debian version info to option -V
+  * corrected a couple of italian messages that didn't work (Grazie Borto)
+  * added nlsutils in Replaces: field of control file (fixes Bug#9943)
+  * Ugly typo in debian/rules that made .dwww-index disappear from last
+     version (-38): my fault! (sigh) (autoBug#10130)
+  * dropped scan of current directory if explicitly present in PATH both
+     as an empty entry or an explicit dot; this used to left index files
+     here and there.  (fixes Bug#10039, thanks to Giuliano Procida)
+  * allowed non "man" dirs if in manpath.config
+     (now accepts manpages hierarchies like /usr/share/ucbman)
+     fixes Bug#9947, thanks to Richard Kettlewell.
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Thu, 22 May 1997 13:04:48 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.10-38) frozen unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Added test -x of commands in cron.weekly (#9973), Nicolas Lichtmaier
+  * Broken link from dwww index, thanx to David ROCHER (fixes #9792)
+  * Corrected broken links from toc in html manual (bug#8950bis & #9725)
+  * Added /usr/doc/man-db/Changelog.gz, NEWS, ToDo (closes bug#7506)
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Mon, 28 Apr 1997 12:28:33 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.10-37) frozen unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Added nice to postinst index rebuild (bug#8946)
+  * Bug#8950: MANOPT parsing error corrected (Thanx to Ricardas Cepas)
+  * Bug#8950: Changed again way to determine section names: hardcoded
+     into manconfig.h.in , need policy to update with new ones.
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Tue, 22 Apr 1997 15:09:22 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.10-36) frozen unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Discovered and corrected a more serious bug in debian/rules in a
+     rm statement line (this is the reason for going into frozen).
+  * Changed clean rule in debian/rules to handle cases in which the
+     GNUmakefile or the build markfile are missing, (bug#8822)
+     thanks to Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@lot49.med.miami.edu>
+  * Allowed undocumented option -X to be passed to groff.
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:05:53 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.10-35) frozen unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * also added copyright notice for gencat program to Copyright file.
+  * added gencat binary (fixed error in Makefile, thanks to Christian
+     Hudon <chudon@ee.mcgill.ca>)
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Sun, 13 Apr 1997 08:08:43 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.10-34) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * added revision March 97 of Italian manpages.
+  * Patched lexgrog.l to recognise NAME saction in other languages:
+     NAME, NOME, NOM, NOMBRE, BEZEICHNUNG. (Bug#6497, Herbert Thielen)
+  * added flag -f to gzip to avoid failing of mandb on badly named files.
+  * Fixed bug#8357 adding missing newline in the message
+     "What manual page do you want?\n" (Thanx to Herbert Xu)
+  * added in debian/rules command to clean index.bt built in man dir
+  * Applied patch to process NAME section containing .IX (perl pod)
+     thanx to Craig Wiegert <cwiegert@midway.uchicago.edu> (#8249)
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Tue, 1 Apr 1997 10:11:16 +0300
+
+man-db (2.3.10-33) unstable; urgency=low
+
+    * This will replace man package in Debian 1.3
+    * Corrected typo in control file
+    * Added dwww index entry
+    * Added html version of manual (from .me via unroff + manual edit :-( )
+    * Moved dependency on bsdmainutils from Depends to Suggests.
+    * Removed failure of installation if removal of catpages failed.
+    * Added italian manpages and message catalogs
+       (Thanx to Giovanni Bortolozzo <borto@dei.unipd.it>)
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Tue, 4 Mar 1997 17:47:13 +0200
+
+man-db (2.3.10-32) unstable; urgency=high
+
+    * Due to paranoia version -31 doesn't upgrade from -30 (Oops)
+    * in chmanconfig remove old lines instead that commenting them out.
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Wed, 26 Feb 1997 18:31:45 +0200
+
+man-db (2.3.10-31) unstable; urgency=low
+
+    * Corrected location of message catalogs (#7491, thanx Scott K.Ellis)
+       from /usr/lib/locale to /usr/share/locale .
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Thu, 20 Feb 1997 02:17:37 +0200
+
+man-db (2.3.10-30) unstable; urgency=low
+
+    * Installed german manpages and message catalogs.
+    * In postinst added search for languages installed to build catmans
+       also for them.
+    * Added /usr/sbin/chmanconfig, a perl script that updates
+       /etc/manpath.conf for the listed language, and calls mkcatdirs to
+       update the catdir hierarchy.
+       This is to be used by packages that install translated manpages.
+    * Closes Bug#5977: (strange bug in man causes magically unpredictable
+       manpage ?) due to change in database library and my inability to
+       reproduce this behaviour.
+    * Changed output of these messages from stdout to stderr (#4207):
+       "What manual page do you want from section ?";
+       "What manual page do you want?";
+       "No source manual entry for ";
+       "No manual entry for ";
+    * added in cron.weekly the update of catdirs hierarchy and forced
+       complete rebuild of indexes (instead of simple update)
+    * Installs tools/mkcatdirs in /usr/sbin ; this script can be used
+       (and is used in postinst) to build the catman hierarchy
+       that now is made on the fly instead than burn in the package.
+       Modifyed to make also main catdirs (not only subdirs)
+    * preinst and postrm both remove the whole catman hierarchy.
+    * postinst builds the catman hierarchy using mkcatdirs or a basic
+       set of dirs predefined, and then builds the index databases.
+    * Provides: man, man-browser. Conflicts: man. Replaces: man.
+       These should remove the old man package as well as the man-aeb.
+    * Compiled using option nls=all (all locales).
+    * Linked against libdb1 (Berkeley) instead of gdbm.
+    * Compiled using libc5 5.4.20
+    * Changed name from man to man-db, to follow upstream (man_db)
+       this also fixes bug #4885 (/usr/doc/man gets man itself confused)
+    * Added man_db-manual-0.5.cat (which was distributed separetely) as
+       /usr/doc/man-db-manual.txt
+    * Rebuilt using debmake (Standards-Version: 2.1.2.2) resulting in a
+       smaller debian/rules file (but not more explicative).
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Wed, 5 Feb 1997 20:01:49 +0200
+
+man (2.3.10-18) stable unstable; urgency=low
+
+    * changed the way 'man 9term' problem is handled (bug#5345) fixed
+       badly in 2.3.10-16 (oops)
+    * removed subdirectory debian/new that caused dpkg-source to fail :-(
+    * Added check in preinst to warn only changing owner of catman dirs
+       (fixes #7035 thanx to Santiago Vila Doncel and Kai Henningsen)
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Thu, 13 Feb 1997 12:30:12 +0200
+
+man (2.3.10-17) stable unstable; urgency=low
+
+    * fixed bug#6496: man's cron scripts should be conffiles (oops :-)
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Mon, 20 Jan 1997 00:48:33 +0200
+
+man (2.3.10-16) frozen unstable; urgency=low
+
+    * fixed bug#????: man segfaults when MANPATH="" (null string)
+        changed to consider null string as var unset.
+    * fixed bug#5833: MANPATH="" manpath -g: wrong warning.
+    * fixed bug#5345: man 9term problem (coded Debian's policy for
+        sections = only one digit)
+    * fixed bug#5809: mandb -c fails on dangling symlink in cat (added
+        code to detect dangled symlinks in stray cats) Thanx H.Thielen.
+    * fixed bug#4372 NULL pointer dereference (Thanx Ray).
+    * warning message for the absence of whatis fallback database
+        downgraded to debug info because gdbm is used in this version.
+    * setlocale continues not to work  :-(
+    * compiled using libc5 5.4.13-1
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Fri, 6 Dec 1996 04:05:59 +0200
+
+man (2.3.10-15) frozen unstable; urgency=low
+
+    * fixed bug#5534 (man fails if env var SYSTEM is defined)
+    * compiled using libc5 5.4.7-7
+    * due to a bug in libc5 5.4.7-7 setlocale doesn't work.
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Fri, 22 Nov 1996 00:04:12 +0200
+
+man (2.3.10-14) frozen; urgency=high
+
+    * changed wrong owner of catman dirs (bug #5340)
+    * added code in preinst to detect catman's wrong owner (bug #5340)
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Sat, 9 Nov 1996 21:37:48 +0200
+
+man (2.3.10-13.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+    * compressed manpages.
+    * removed obsolete catman directories X386 and X11R5 (#3939)
+    * added conffiles to debian structure (#4671)
+    * built using original upstream sources + patch 2.3.10-13
+    * Updated to Standards-Version 2.1.1.0
+
+ -- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>  Wed, 30 Oct 1996 20:02:31 +0200
+
+
+Changes:
+Sun Jul  7 21:46:09 BST 1996 Alvar Bray <alvar@debian.org>
+	* Modified to build on different architectures
+	* 2.3.10-12 -> 2.3.10-13
+
+Mon Jun 10 23:38:11 BST 1996 Alvar Bray <alvar@debian.org>
+        * Added dependency on bsdmailutils so col is present
+        * Modified makefiles to new dchanges format
+	* Set priority to be routine the same as manpages pkg.
+        * 2.3.10-11 -> 2.3.10-12
+
+Sun Mar 31 14:45:48 BST 1996 Alvar Bray <alvar@debian.org>
+	* Added fix to ult_src.c from _Mark_ <eichin@cygnus.com>
+	* 2.3.10-10 -> 2.3.10-11
+
+Tue Mar  5 12:18:32 GMT 1996 Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
+	* Removed echo in cron.weekly
+	* 2.3.10-9 -> 2.3.10-10
+
+Sun Feb 18 14:25:45 GMT 1996 Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
+	* Changed to invoke groff with latin1 device.
+	* 2.3.10-8 -> 2.3.10-9
+
+Sat Feb 17 16:13:07 GMT 1996 Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
+	* Added H J Lu bugfix provided by Michael Meskes
+	* Changed cron job regexp to catch all .gz files
+	* Changed to use nice in cron jobs
+
+Thu Jan 11 20:51:01 GMT 1996 Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
+	* Rebuilt using dynamic linking
+	  2.3.10-7 -> 2.3.10-8
+
+Tue Jan  9 20:46:44 GMT 1996  Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
+	* Added interpreter lines (#!/bin/sh) to cron job files.
+	  (#2106).
+	* Changed find time args (#2057) in cron.daily.
+	* 2.3.10-6 -> 2.3.10-7 (fixes dpkg dependency problem
+	  from libgdbm1.)
+
+Sat Dec 16 21:06:56 GMT 1995  Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
+	* changed dependency libgdbm to libgdbm1
+	  Rebuilt against libgdbm1 packages
+          2.3.10-5 -> 2.3.10-6
+
+Wed Nov 29 22:28:19 GMT 1995  Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
+        * changed dependency elf-libgdbm to libgdbm
+          2.3.10-4 -> 2.3.10-5
+
+Mon Nov 27 20:37:47 GMT 1995  Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
+	* added dependency on elf-libgdbm
+	  2.3.10-3 -> 2.3.10-4
+
+Wed Nov 22 17:30:49 GMT 1995  Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
+	* Compiled for elf - added dependency on lib5c
+	  2.3.10-2 -> 2.3.10-3
+
+20-September-1995 Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
+	Patched src/util.c to fix bug#1290 (improved testing to decide if
+	catman page need rebuilding from src man page)
+	2.3.10-1 -> 2.3.10-2
+
+20-August-1995  Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
+	Upgraded package to the latest 2official" release.
+	2.3.7 -> 2.3.10-1
+
+24-July-1995  Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
+	Setup to use more as the default pager.
+
+03-July-1995 Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
+	Change of Maintainer.
+	Added Extended description.
+
+24-December-1994 Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
+	Added Debian GNU/Linux package maintenance system files and configure
+	for Debian.
+