man-db (2.7.0.2-5) unstable; urgency=medium * Drop real IDs before effective IDs, for non-Linux compatibility (closes: #772597). -- Colin Watson 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:00:41 +0000 man-db (2.5.8-2) experimental; urgency=low * Build-depend on pkg-config. -- Colin Watson 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 in lib/cleanup.c for memset. -- Colin Watson 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Fri, 10 Jun 2005 15:22:16 +0100 man-db (2.4.2-21) unstable; urgency=low * Teach encodings layer about Turkish. -- Colin Watson 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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` ; closes: #28819. * corrected location of manual in menu and use of doc-base. Thanx to "J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)" closes: #47434. * applied patch for locale setting (also to manpath and whatis), and for inclusion of locale dirs in path. Thanx to Michael Sobolev and to Raphael Hertzog ; closes: #46853. * Added message catalog in French, translated by Laurent Pelecq , 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 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 , closes: #46628. * Added manpages in japanese, translated by Takeo NAKANO , thanx to nabetani@kern.phys.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp, closes: #46600 -- Fabrizio Polacco 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 , 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 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 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 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 and Fumitoshi UKAI . 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 ; closes: bug#43845. * added corrected translations in Italian, thanx to Giovanni Bortolozzo * changed tests in configure.in to detect new libdb installed from glibc. Closes: bug#39646 * corrected typos in control file, thanx to Richard Braakman , 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 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 . 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 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 , closes bug#37882. * added new czech message catalog, thanx to Vladimir Michl * 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 Fri, 9 Apr 1999 10:49:11 +0300 * 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ) -- Fabrizio Polacco 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 , Enrique Zanardi and Cesar BALLARDINI ). * build linking to libdb2 -- Fabrizio Polacco 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 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 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 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 #13851 * zsoelim.l - added new start condition to avoid expansion of .so requests inside a macro definition. (fixes #2969 and #13812) -- Fabrizio Polacco 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 * Allowed undocumented option -X to be passed to groff. -- Fabrizio Polacco 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 ) -- Fabrizio Polacco 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 (#8249) -- Fabrizio Polacco 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 ) -- Fabrizio Polacco 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Wed, 30 Oct 1996 20:02:31 +0200 Changes: Sun Jul 7 21:46:09 BST 1996 Alvar Bray * Modified to build on different architectures * 2.3.10-12 -> 2.3.10-13 Mon Jun 10 23:38:11 BST 1996 Alvar Bray * 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 * Added fix to ult_src.c from _Mark_ * 2.3.10-10 -> 2.3.10-11 Tue Mar 5 12:18:32 GMT 1996 Alvar Bray * Removed echo in cron.weekly * 2.3.10-9 -> 2.3.10-10 Sun Feb 18 14:25:45 GMT 1996 Alvar Bray * 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 * 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 * Rebuilt using dynamic linking 2.3.10-7 -> 2.3.10-8 Tue Jan 9 20:46:44 GMT 1996 Alvar Bray * 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 * 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 * changed dependency elf-libgdbm to libgdbm 2.3.10-4 -> 2.3.10-5 Mon Nov 27 20:37:47 GMT 1995 Alvar Bray * added dependency on elf-libgdbm 2.3.10-3 -> 2.3.10-4 Wed Nov 22 17:30:49 GMT 1995 Alvar Bray * Compiled for elf - added dependency on lib5c 2.3.10-2 -> 2.3.10-3 20-September-1995 Alvar Bray 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 Upgraded package to the latest 2official" release. 2.3.7 -> 2.3.10-1 24-July-1995 Alvar Bray Setup to use more as the default pager. 03-July-1995 Alvar Bray Change of Maintainer. Added Extended description. 24-December-1994 Bruce Perens Added Debian GNU/Linux package maintenance system files and configure for Debian.