ncbi-entrez-direct (23.8.20250408+dfsg-1) experimental; urgency=medium I have, at least for now, abandoned the manpages as too much of a maintenance burden and disabled their installation to avoid misrepresentation. However, many commands support a -help flag, and overall documentation remains available in README.gz and online at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK179288. -- Aaron M. Ucko Tue, 08 Apr 2025 22:41:31 -0400 ncbi-entrez-direct (14.0.20201111+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=medium The main commands for working with NCBI Entrez servers have migrated from Perl to shell (backed by curl or wget) by default. If this change is somehow a problem, you can revert to the historical Perl implementations by invoking these commands with the -oldmode flag or by setting the environment variable USE_NEW_EDIRECT to "0", "off" (case-insensitive), "false" (case-insensitive), or "no" (case-insensitive). (The new implementation is expected to work, though.) Meanwhile, transmute has a wholly new Go/shell implementation with a somewhat different interface. (The Go portions were originally in xtract, which forwards them for now, albeit on an undocumented basis.) -- Aaron M. Ucko Sun, 24 Jan 2021 17:14:03 -0500