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@@ -1,3 +1,292 @@ +2024-04-05 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> + + Release man-db 2.12.1 + +2024-04-05 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> + + Rebase argp-domain patch onto current Gnulib + + * patches/argp-domain.patch: Rebase and resolve conflict. + +2024-03-31 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> + + Fix excessive cleanup of /var/cache/man by systemd-tmpfiles + + Fixes https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/issues/36. + + * init/systemd/man-db.conf.in: Only consider access times. Ignore + `/var/cache/man/index*` and `/var/cache/man/*/index*`. + * NEWS.md: Document this. + +2024-03-29 Seong-ho Cho <darkcircle.0426@gmail.com> + + Update Korean manual page translation + + * man/po4a/po/ko.po: Update from Translation Project. + +2024-03-29 Mario Blättermann <mario.blaettermann@gmail.com> + + Update German manual page translation + + * man/po4a/po/de.po: Update from Translation Project. + +2024-03-28 Remus-Gabriel Chelu <remusgabriel.chelu@disroot.org> + + Update Romanian manual page translation + + * man/po4a/po/ro.po: Update from Translation Project. + +2024-03-28 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> + + Release man-db 2.12.1-pre1 + +2024-03-28 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> + + Update translation files + + * man/po4a/po/*.pot, man/po4a/po/*.po, po/*.pot, po/*.po: Update. + +2024-03-28 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> + + Update pre-commit hooks + + * .pre-commit-config.yaml (shellcheck-py): Update to v0.10.0.1. + * src/tests/mandb-purge-updates-timestamp: Disable shellcheck SC2319; + the use of `$?` here is not problematic. + * tools/checkman: Use `find -newer` rather than non-POSIX `test -nt`. + +2024-03-28 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> + + Document italic formatting + + Fixes https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/issues/35. + + * man/man1/man.man1 (ENVIRONMENT): Give `MANROFFOPT=-P-i` as an example. + * NEWS.md: Document this. + +2024-03-19 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> + + Move setting of seccomp attributes earlier + + This doesn't need to be done every time we load the filter; it can be + done when constructing the filter instead. + + * lib/sandbox.c (_sandbox_load): Move `seccomp_attr_set` call to ... + (make_seccomp_filter): ... here. + +2024-03-18 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> + + web: Update bootstrapping instructions + + * web/development.html: Bootstrapping from git now requires + `./bootstrap` rather than `./autogen.sh`. + +2024-03-18 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> + + Tighten up several declarations + + * lib/cleanup.c (untrap_signal, pop_cleanup): Constify argument. + * lib/cleanup.h (pop_cleanup): Update prototype. + * src/decompress.c (decompress_is_pipeline): Constify argument. + * src/decompress.h (decompress_is_pipeline): Update prototype. + * src/mandb.c (dbpaths_copy_to_tmp, dbpaths_remove_tmp, + dbpaths_unlink_tmp): Constify argument. + * src/ult_src.c (ult_key_equals): Constify variable declarations. + * src/whatis.c (any_set, all_set): Constify argument. + (match): Constify variable declarations. + (do_apropos): Constify argument to `combine`. + + * lib/encodings.c (get_less_charset, get_jless_charset): Narrow variable + scope. + * src/check_mandirs.c (mkcatdirs): Likewise. + +2024-03-03 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> + + Speed up seccomp filter slightly + + Thanks to systemd for the idea. With a couple of hundred entries in the + filter (depending on architecture and permissiveness), using a binary-tree + search should be worth it. + + * lib/sandbox.c (_sandbox_load): Set `SCMP_FLTATR_CTL_OPTIMIZE` to 2 if + available. + * NEWS.md: Document this. + +2024-03-03 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> + + Update syscall lists from systemd 85b774de49 + + * lib/sandbox.c (make_seccomp_filter): Add `fchmodat2`. + +2024-03-03 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> + + Mention groff's pdf device + + Fixes https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/issues/34. + + * man/man1/man.man1 (Controlling formatted output): Add pdf to the list + of groff devices. + * NEWS.md: Document this. + +2024-01-28 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> + + pre-commit: Add perlcritic + + * .pre-commit-config.yaml: Add perlcritic. + * man/po4a/Locale/Po4a/Manext.pm (initialize, pushline): Add explicit + return statements at end. + (translate): Unpack `@_` first in a way that perlcritic recognizes. + +2024-01-28 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> + + Remove obsolete chconfig tool + + The FHS transition took place almost 25 years ago (at least in Debian), + so it's not worth keeping this around now. + + * tools/chconfig: Remove. + * tools/Makefile.am (dist_noinst_SCRIPTS): Remove chconfig. + * tools/README: Likewise. + * NEWS.md: Document this. + +2024-01-20 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> + + Update pre-commit hooks + + * .pre-commit-config.yaml (pre-commit-hooks): Update to v4.5.0. + (shellcheck-py): Update to v0.9.0.6. + +2024-01-20 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> + + Upgrade to Gnulib stable-202401 + + * bootstrap: Sync to Gnulib c78af17a931bb36e00c5f698b7fd37deb4a87f58. + * bootstrap.conf (GNULIB_REVISION): Set to + c78af17a931bb36e00c5f698b7fd37deb4a87f58. + * NEWS.md: Document this. + +2024-01-17 Sebastian Rasmussen <sebras@gmail.com> + + Update Swedish manual page translation + + * man/po4a/po/sv.po: Update from Translation Project. + +2024-01-17 Sebastian Rasmussen <sebras@gmail.com> + + Update Swedish translation + + * po/sv.po: Update from Translation Project. + +2024-01-10 Мирослав Николић <miroslavnikolic@rocketmail.com> + + Update Serbian translation + + * po/sr.po: Update from Translation Project. + +2023-12-30 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> + + NEWS: Document previous commit + + Fixes https://bugs.debian.org/1059537. + +2023-12-30 Colin Watson <cjwatson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> + + Merge branch 'main' into 'main' + + man: match the display width to the configured width + + See merge request man-db/man-db!11 + +2023-12-30 наб <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz> + + man: enforce a single-column right margin + + Under groff, tbl consistently overruns the page width by one column, + so accommodate this. + + Ref: https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/merge_requests/11#note_1708513108 + +2023-12-28 наб <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz> + + man: match the display width to the configured width + + Currently, the line length is: + if w ≤ 40: w - 2 + else : ⌊w*(39/40)⌋ + i.e. + if w ≤ 40: w - 2 + else : w - ⌈w/40⌉ + (this is equivalent to a ≤80 condition). + + This was originally originally introduced in commit + f139e8273d5f3754f0d0dacb890e515b30c2d28b ("Add terminal line length + detection to man.") from 2001-06-28, which did + if w ∈ [66, 80]: 80 (via default) + else : ⌊.9w⌋ + then tracked the default in + commit cac2ef84fe626f112de7537c20dfe29c35a71b96 ("Update default + line length in line with groff 1.18.") from 2002-07-06, + which updates it to the current formula, + then commit 39cdee4ada59d711d066628ec827508070d90a70 ("Always pass a + line length to nroff") from 2023-08-06 removes any defaulting. + + This is ideologically quite weird, because this behaves like a + stochastic best-effort fit so there is always a blank margin, growing + with size, derived from a 21-year-old default which was only relevant + because catpages were vaguely relevant, even though we perfectly + know how large we need to display the manual by virtue of perfectly + knowing the size of the teletype! There is no such margin on the + left, and why would there be? + + Fixes Debian bug #1059537. + +2023-12-28 наб <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz> + + man: simplify the right-margin condition + + As it stands, this is + ⌊line_length*(39/40)⌋ > line_length - 2 + which works out to + line_length ≤ 40 + Is that obvious? No (I analysed it to line_length < 80), + but the way the result is used makes it equivalent to + line_length ≤ 80 + anyway. + + This currently blames to commit cac2ef84fe626f112de7537c20dfe29c35a71b96 + ("Update default line length in line with groff 1.18.") dated + 2002-07-06 20:30:34 +0000(!) with a diff of + - if (!troff && (line_length < 66 || line_length > 80)) + - return line_length * 9 / 10; + + /* groff >= 1.18 defaults to 78. */ + + if (!troff && line_length != 80) { + + int length = line_length * 39 / 40; + + if (length > line_length - 2) + + return line_length - 2; + + else + + return length; + + NFC + +2023-12-18 Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru> + + Update Russian manual page translation + + * man/po4a/po/ru.po: Update from Translation Project. + +2023-12-18 Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru> + + Update Russian translation + + * po/ru.po: Update from Translation Project. + +2023-12-08 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> + + Upgrade to Gnulib stable-202307 as of 20231208 + + * bootstrap.conf (GNULIB_REVISION): Set to + 51ff7c1242903bcc90b35baf5ec2e6a176cf912a. + 2023-09-23 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Release man-db 2.12.0 |