2010
help2man (1.38.2) unstable; urgency=low
* Update Finnish translation (thanks to Tommi Vainikainen). * Add Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
-- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:00:04 +1000
help2man (1.38.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Add support for ENVIRONMENT and FILES sections (Sven Utcke). * Ensure THANKS file includes translators. * Fix handling of translated --no-discard-stderr instruction. * Move tranlsated .h2m contents into .po files. * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz). * Add Vietnamese translation (thanks to Clytie Siddall). * Add some comments for translators.
-- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:59:32 +1000
2009
help2man (1.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix typo in comment (Paul Eggert). * Move cvs repository to git. * Remove extraneous whitespace from debian/rules. * Sanity check that version in help2man.PL matches debian/changelog. * Handle automake directory with explicit version number. * Integrate NMU, thanks Stefano. * Add @datarootdir@ used by new autoconf. * Add --no-discard-stderr option, suggest use if no stdout (closes: #138752). * Add VCS fields to debian/control. * Update copyright years. * Anchor [section] and /pattern/ matches for include files so that pathnames are not matched by the latter (Reuben Thomas). * Add line breaks into bug reporting section (Jim Meyering). * Clarify that the section output order contains optional items (Rueben). * Match "Report <prog> bugs to ..." (Jim). * Add Brazilian Portuguese translation (Rodolfo Ribeiro Gomes). * Add German translation (Chris Leick, closes: #547154). * Remove addition of default territory to locale (closes: #336298). * Set locale via argument embedded in .h2m files. * Select a reasonable configure default for --enable-nls. * Parse program output and include files in the chartset given by --locale. * Conditionally include gettext support at extraction, rather than run-time. * Revise preload mechanism to not require preloadable libintl. * Document recommended suffixes for --include files (Simon Josefsson).
-- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:35:45 +1100
help2man (1.36.4+nmu1) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer upload.
* Bump debhelper compatibility level to 5 (4 is deprecated now), move
the setting to debian/compat
* Add missing dependency on ${shlibs:Depends}, neede by the .so file
shipped by help2man
* Add --version-string option to support programs which are missing some
sort of --version option. Thanks to Lionel Elie Mamane for the patch.
(Closes: #494739)
-- Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:35:34 +0200
2006
help2man (1.36.4) unstable; urgency=low
* Add sv translation from Daniel Nylander (closes: #349568).
-- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:42:19 +1100
2005
help2man (1.36.3) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated fr translation from Denis Barbier (closes: #338995).
-- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:57:23 +1100
help2man (1.36.2) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated po translation from Jakub Bogusz. * Makefile.in: $(srcdir) fix from Paul Eggert (closes: #335741).
-- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:46:16 +1000
help2man (1.36.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Add default territory to --locale option.
* Add Finnish translations (thanks to Tommi Vainikainen,
closes #332444).
* Correctly update .pot and .po files (thanks to Thomas Huriaux,
closes: #331678).
-- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:38:59 +1000
help2man (1.35.2) unstable; urgency=low
* help2man.texi: spelling corrections (closes: #328671). * debian/rules: configure --host on cross build (closes: #284701). * debian/rules: set DH_COMPAT to 4.
-- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 4 Oct 2005 22:14:26 +1000
2004
help2man (1.35.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Set program name to the first word of NAME paragraph in --include
file if given.
-- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:06:58 +1100
help2man (1.34.2) unstable; urgency=low
* Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
-- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:28:29 +1100
help2man (1.34.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Escape all unescaped hyphens in output (closes: #263803). * Convert parenthesised options, eg (-F). * info section in SEE ALSO should use $program rather than $info_page when referring to the program (thanks to Jim Mayering).
-- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 20 Nov 2004 09:54:13 +1100
2003
help2man (1.33.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Allow "Usage" to be localised.
* Add Polish translations (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
* Add --enable-nls/--disable-nls configure option.
* Add back gettext and libgettext-perl build-depends (for configure).
* Check for Locale::gettext, gettext and usability of
preloadable_libintl.so.
-- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 00:14:25 +1000
help2man (1.32.2) unstable; urgency=low
* Build preload with -fPIC. Closes: #200632.
-- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jul 2003 07:57:56 +1000
help2man (1.32.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Set times on generated help2man so pages don't need to be
regenerated. Remove some associated build-deps.
-- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:13:42 +1000
help2man (1.31.2) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix quoting in generation of README file. * Changed to arch=any due to inclusion of the LD_PRELOAD library.
-- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 22:59:28 +1000
help2man (1.31.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Oops, might help to actually install the message catalog.
* Check for errors writing output (suggested by Jim Meyering).
* Work around an odd regex bug under perl 5.6+ where /^ {0}(\S.*)\n/
doesn't match correctly.
-- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 20:20:02 +1000
help2man (1.30.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Add support for localised manual pages (closes #183671). Many
thanks to Denis Barbier for patches, advice and French
translations.
* Import RCS files to CVS.
* Convert to native Debian package.
-- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 8 Jul 2003 23:57:44 +1000
Old changelog format(s), not parsed
Sat Sep 7 02:13:05 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
* help2man.texi: Change @dircategory to "GNU programming support"
(Karl Berry). Change @setchapternewpage to "on" (Peter Moulder).
* Makefile.in: Added some more GNU standard targets (Peter
Moulder).
* Makefile.in, help2man.h2m: Rename help2man.aux to .h2m to avoid
clashing with tex.
* help2man.PL: version bump
Tue Jun 4 00:53:18 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
* help2man.PL: Expand copyright years (Paul Eggert). Provide
--info-page option (Bonzini).
* README.sh: hrm, different awk...
Tue Mar 19 23:52:37 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
* help2man.PL: Allow short and long options to be separated by
multiple spaces (Paul Eggert).
Sat Mar 9 23:54:01 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
* help2man.PL: version bump for doc changes
* help2man.texi: Add --help recommendations from Karl Berry (& co.)
Mon Dec 3 19:02:26 2001 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
* README.sh: Change email address
* configure.in: Require perl 5.005
* help2man.PL, help2man.texi: Add --source, --manual, --help-option
and --version-option; change email address; update copyright
Fri Dec 22 23:17:11 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* help2man.PL: Process options given in the block before the first
section of an include file (suggested by Akim Demaille).
* help2man.aux: Document option parsing of initial include file
segment.
* help2man.texi: Use @pxref rather than @xref (Karl Berry).
Document option parsing of initial include file segment.
Tue Oct 31 17:07:30 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* help2man.PL: Add protection for leading apostrophes (reported by
Matt Kraai). Don't zero-pad version.
Fri Jul 7 16:16:18 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* README.sh: Add GNU prefix
* aclocal.m4: (add) autoconf support
* configure.in: Use AC_PROG_PERL from aclocal.m4 to find perl
(checks for perl and perl5)
* help2man.PL: Add GNU prefix, bug reporting address
* help2man.aux: Remove ozemail URL
* help2man.texi: Add GNU prefix, bug reporting address. Remove
ozemail URL
Sun Apr 16 00:18:41 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* Makefile.in: Add mkinstalldirs (as reqested by Dave Morrison,
Patrick Tullmann and Mo DeJong)
* help2man.PL: Version bump
Thu Dec 30 01:29:12 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* help2man.texi: Correct typo
Thu Nov 11 03:16:25 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* help2man.PL: Remove directories from synopsis
Wed Nov 3 17:39:50 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* help2man.PL: Revise tagged paragraph matching *again*
Mon Nov 1 21:50:36 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* help2man.PL: Allow multiple synopsis entries (w/- `or:'). Single
options may have argument w/- `='.
* help2man.texi: Add /pattern/
* configure.in: Add MAKEINFO/INSTALL_INFO
* Makefile.in: Install help2man.info
Wed Oct 27 16:02:00 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* help2man.PL: Allow --include to be specified multiple times. Add
/pattern/.
* help2man.aux: Document /pattern/ syntax
Mon Oct 25 22:36:16 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* help2man.PL: Fix odd /^x|^y/ pre-5.005 perl bug. Split tagged
paragraph logic into option/other. Protect leading periods in
continuation lines.
* THANKS to Roland Huebner for extensive bug report.
* Add NEWS file
Tue Oct 12 16:25:23 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* help2man.PL: Protect leading dots (1.14: not released)
* README.sh, help2man.aux: Add ftp.gnu.org URL
* help2man.PL: Allow fixed-pitch examples where prefixed by $,
% or > (for Akim)
Thu Sep 2 19:43:02 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* help2man.PL: Fix typo in --help (Jim Meyering)
Escape backslashes (Andreas Schwab/Peter Moulder)
* help2man.texi: (add) Texinfo docs for help2man
Thu Jun 24 12:17:50 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* help2man.PL: Add --section option (from Okuji Yoshinori). Fixes
to option handling and inter-paragraph breaks.
Thu Jun 17 19:45:08 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* help2man.PL: Defer option formatting until after paragraph
continuation handling
* Makefile.in, configure.in: (add) autoconf support
* configure, makefile.dist: (remove) autoconf support
* README.in: Rename to README.sh (so as not to be confused with
autoconf files)
Wed Mar 24 21:47:18 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* help2man.PL: Improved tagged paragraph/continuation handling
Thu Feb 25 15:58:30 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* README.in, help2man.aux: Add URL for distribution
* help2man.PL: Increment revision (changes to help2man.aux)
Thu Jan 21 14:46:48 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* help2man.PL: Update copyright
* makefile.dist: Add help2man.1 to `all' target
Mon Jan 11 10:42:04 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* help2man.PL: Handle version output with `Free' as well as `GNU'.
Missing backslash in initial comment (from Andreas Schwab)
Thu Dec 10 12:50:10 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* help2man.PL: Experimental NLS version on main trunk (1.6-1.8)
pruned, rejoined branch 1.5.1.4 as 1.6
Cleaned up version format and removed François' name from
the code (at his suggestion).
* README.in: (add) Description for help2man
* configure: (add) Dodgy configure script for help2man
* help2man.aux: (add) Include file for help2man man page
* makefile.dist: (add) Dodgy makefile for help2man
Wed Nov 25 11:31:09 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* help2man.PL: Join hyphenated lines in --version output
Tue Oct 20 20:44:46 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* help2man.PL: Fix strftime locale (from Akim Demaille), add
--no-info option
Tue Oct 6 10:05:20 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* help2man.PL: Remove --manhelp/oneliner mechanism
Sat Aug 29 04:50:02 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* help2man.PL: Add --include/--opt-include options and Clark
Morgan's --manhelp/oneliner parsing. Merged changes from Karl
Berry.
Thu Feb 26 10:38:34 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* help2man.PL: Fix synopsis and revert `use version' to `require
version' as perl5.003 doesn't grok the former
Mon Feb 23 11:54:13 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* help2man.PL: Add --output
Fri Feb 20 15:14:22 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* help2man.PL: Made self-extracting .PL for portability; Some
enhancements to work with a2ps for Akim
Thu Feb 19 10:16:58 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* help2man.PL: Fix DESCRIPTION mis-spell (from Akim Demaille)
Thu Jan 22 16:53:32 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
* help2man.PL: (add) Generate man page from a program's --version
and --help output