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diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b882ea5 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -0,0 +1,3495 @@ +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. + |