2007
man-db (2.4.3-6) unstable; urgency=low
* Add French man pages translation (thanks, Valéry Perrin;
closes: #348911).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:03:01 +0000
2006
man-db (2.4.3-5) unstable; urgency=medium
* CVE-2006-4250: Fix a buffer overrun if using -H and the designated web browser (argument to -H or $BROWSER) contains multiple %s expansions. Thanks to Jochen Voß for the report.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:13:27 +0000
man-db (2.4.3-4) unstable; urgency=low
* Add debconf translations:
- Galician (thanks, Jacobo Tarrio; closes: #362133).
- Italian (thanks, Luca Monducci; closes: #345533).
- Portuguese (thanks, Miguel Figueiredo; closes: #348788).
- Swedish (thanks, Daniel Nylander; closes: #339078).
* Use debhelper 4.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:43:27 +0100
2005
man-db (2.4.3-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Ignore SIGINT and SIGQUIT in the parent while running subprocesses
(closes: #328982).
* Improve SIGCHLD handling in pipeline library (closes: #326488):
- Queue SIGCHLD for the whole time we're collecting child process
statuses; we need to keep a careful count of processes.
- Forget any previous errno before calling reap_children.
* Explicitly tell po2debconf to use the 'popular' output encoding, so that
the woody-compatibility hack works even with po-debconf 0.9.0.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:03:47 +0100
man-db (2.4.3-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Use 'col -b -p -x' rather than just 'col -b' when stdout is not a
terminal. Partly fixes #319952, but col still needs to be fixed to cope
with UTF-8 input.
* Use www-browser as default HTML pager, and suggest the virtual
www-browser package (closes: #321769).
* Update debian/copyright with the FSF's new address.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:37:35 +0100
man-db (2.4.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release.
- Make most calls to external programs directly rather than going via
the shell.
- When stdout is not a terminal, man pages will be formatted in plain
text without the use of backspace or ANSI formatting characters.
- Try harder to find somewhere to store cat pages for symlinked man
pages (closes: #129575).
- When invoking apropos (man -k) or whatis (man -f) as external
programs, man now only passes through command-line options understood
by the respective programs (closes: #207436).
- Drop versions and/or modifiers from locale names before deciding how
to handle them (closes: #241387).
- Fix portable shell issues in mkcatdirs (closes: #256279).
- Terminate NAME section parsing on encountering a macro definition
(closes: #275562).
- Add -s/--section option to apropos and whatis (closes: #218407).
- Update Polish translation (thanks, Robert Luberda; closes: #245057).
- Update Russian translation (thanks, Yuri Kozlov; closes: #268584).
* Policy version 3.6.2: no changes required.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 4 Jul 2005 00:27:05 +0100
man-db (2.4.2-23) unstable; urgency=low
* Update config.guess and config.sub to 2005-04-22 (closes: #315075).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:49:04 +0100
man-db (2.4.2-22) unstable; urgency=low
* Depend on debconf | debconf-2.0.
* Add debconf translations:
- Vietnamese (thanks, Clytie Siddall; closes: #309060).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Fri, 10 Jun 2005 15:22:16 +0100
man-db (2.4.2-21) unstable; urgency=low
* Teach encodings layer about Turkish.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:14:30 +0000
2004
man-db (2.4.2-20) unstable; urgency=low
* Suggest less, since we have special support for it (closes: #280096). * Add support for cross-building (closes: #284856). * Restore the intended ability to use SECTIONS to move extensions out of order with respect to their parent sections, broken while working around #204249. * Move extended section 3posix after section 2 (closes: #277981). * Update debconf translations: - Russian (thanks, Yuri Kozlov; part of #268584).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sun, 12 Dec 2004 22:22:17 +0100
man-db (2.4.2-19) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix database creation problems on systems with badly broken clocks set
before the epoch (thanks to Martin Pitt for the hint; fixes #252425
harder).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:58:28 +0100
man-db (2.4.2-18) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix out-of-order declarations in whatis.c (closes: #240089). * Update debconf translations: - Dutch (thanks, cobaco; closes: #260294).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 01:40:20 +0100
man-db (2.4.2-17) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/postinst, debian/postrm: Replace XSIish uses of 'test' with more
portable code (thanks, David Weinehall; see #256279).
* Synchronize logic for whether to ask build-database or rebuild-database
between config and postinst (closes: #246545).
* Don't fail to configure if mandb doesn't create any databases for
whatever reason when running in the foreground (closes: #252425).
* Policy version 3.6.1: no changes required.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 11:48:02 +0100
man-db (2.4.2-16) unstable; urgency=low
* Update debconf translations:
- Spanish (thanks, Carlos Valdivia Yagüe; closes: #247829).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 19:19:53 +0100
man-db (2.4.2-15) unstable; urgency=medium
* Add debconf translations:
- Czech (thanks, Miroslav Kure; closes: #244422).
- Polish (thanks, Robert Luberda; closes: #245056).
* Update debconf translations:
- German (thanks, Florian Ernst; closes: #244532).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Fri, 23 Apr 2004 01:30:38 +0100
man-db (2.4.2-14) unstable; urgency=low
* Add Turkish debconf translation (thanks, Recai Oktas and Mehmet Turker;
closes: #239143).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 2004 20:14:20 +0000
man-db (2.4.2-13) unstable; urgency=medium
* When sorting located man pages for display, sort by pure section, then
id (real page, symlink, whatis reference, etc.), then extended section,
rather than the previous ordering of extended section then id. This
works around the worst effects of #204249, in which changing a
cross-hierarchy man page alternative can cause man to get the display
order wrong.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 8 Mar 2004 00:23:21 +0000
man-db (2.4.2-12) unstable; urgency=low
* Add Ukrainian debconf translation (thanks, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov;
closes: #235803).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Tue, 2 Mar 2004 21:32:07 +0000
man-db (2.4.2-11) unstable; urgency=low
* Update Brazilian Portuguese debconf translation (thanks, Andre Luis
Lopes; closes: #235501).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 1 Mar 2004 00:08:30 +0000
man-db (2.4.2-10) unstable; urgency=low
* Update debconf translations:
- Danish (thanks, Claus Hindsgaul; closes: #233272).
- French (thanks, Christian Perrier; closes: #232490).
- Japanese (thanks, Kenshi Muto; closes: #234051).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:45:13 +0000
man-db (2.4.2-9) unstable; urgency=low
* Improve the wording of some debconf templates (thanks, Christian
Perrier; closes: #232002).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Tue, 10 Feb 2004 22:12:14 +0000
man-db (2.4.2-8) unstable; urgency=low
* Shorten the man-db/install-setuid template so that it doesn't overflow a
25-line terminal (see #231083).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 17:28:10 +0000
man-db (2.4.2-7) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix lexgrog to handle *roff requests immediately after ".SH NAME"
properly rather than interpreting them as plain text, and add a grotty
heuristic hack to strip quotes from request arguments (closes: #222426).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 2004 00:30:57 +0000
2003
man-db (2.4.2-6) unstable; urgency=low
* Increment groff-base dependency to 1.17.2-2, when the ascii8 device was
moved there (closes: #225461). Drop the alternative groff dependency
altogether; it only matters if you're trying to use sarge's man-db with
a groff from before woody, and I'm unconvinced about trying to support
that combination.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Tue, 30 Dec 2003 01:06:43 +0000
man-db (2.4.2-5) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix build with uClibc, which doesn't have canonicalize_file_name()
(thanks, Erik Andersen; closes: #216631).
* Speed up mandb's purging of obsolete entries by lots, after noticing
that it was calling fnmatch() an obscene number of times. The directory
cache is now kept sorted and binary-searched on lookup.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:35:30 +0000
man-db (2.4.2-4) unstable; urgency=low
* Add Dutch debconf translation (thanks, cobaco; closes: #216309).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 2003 01:06:37 +0100
man-db (2.4.2-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Make upgrades from before 2.4.2-1 pay attention to the rebuild-database
question rather than build-database, even though the names of database
files have changed (closes: #213799).
* Silence errors from mandb via man when there are unwriteable directories
on the manpath (closes: #213832).
* In fact, while we're at it, turn off MAN_DB_CREATES so that man never
tries to create databases that don't already exist. Users can still run
mandb to create them themselves for the benefit of apropos and whatis if
it's appropriate, but filesystem lookup should normally be enough for
reading man pages.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 21:07:37 +0100
man-db (2.4.2-2) unstable; urgency=low
* mandb only complains if it failed to do anything on create, not on
update (closes: #211977).
* Teach encodings layer about Galician, Indonesian, Croatian, and Slovak.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 14:38:27 +0100
man-db (2.4.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release.
- Revamped locale support.
+ The encoding of source manual pages is no longer considered to be
related to the encoding of the input passed to *roff or to *roff's
terminal output device. iconv pipes are inserted where necessary to
convert between encodings.
+ Avoid using -Tlatin1 in locales that don't support it, like C and
*.ISO-8859-2 (closes: #163983, #168442).
- 'man ./foo.1' behaves much more like 'man -l foo.1' (closes: #170512).
- Directories found in strange places in manual hierarchies don't crash
mandb (closes: #176645).
- Clarify 'man -Tdevice' syntax in man(1) (closes: #186806).
- Add -C switch to use a different configuration file (closes: #176522).
- mandb now knows how to purge removed stray cat pages from the database
(closes: #143632).
* Climb off the Berkeley DB version treadmill and use GDBM instead, whose
version churn is a lot less frequent, and which is smaller and more
appropriate to the use man-db makes of its databases (closes: #177176).
* debian/postinst: Remove old index.bt databases from /var/cache/man.
* debian/copyright: Remove outdated claim to be a native package (thanks,
Petr Hudec). Various other updates and corrections.
* debian/changelog: Correct date of second-earliest entry (thanks again,
Petr Hudec).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sat, 20 Sep 2003 12:08:29 +0100
man-db (2.4.1-13) unstable; urgency=medium
* Fix segfault caused by an unchecked strcpy() while resolving hard links.
* Provide -8 and -B as separate flex arguments. flex 2.5.31 is stricter
about this.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Fri, 15 Aug 2003 22:38:50 +0100
man-db (2.4.1-12) unstable; urgency=high
* SECURITY: Fix overly permissive DEFINE command. DEFINE directives that
affect code running with raised privileges are now disabled in
~/.manpath.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Fri, 1 Aug 2003 22:29:44 +0100
man-db (2.4.1-11) unstable; urgency=high
* Fix several security problems reported on BugTraq (closes: #203475): - Limit sscanf() calls to the appropriate buffer size while reading configuration file. - Allocate strings dynamically while finding the ultimate source of man pages, avoiding a couple of buffer overflows. - Die gracefully if MANPATH contains too many elements, as a stopgap measure until proper list handling can be added.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jul 2003 22:52:05 +0100
man-db (2.4.1-10) unstable; urgency=low
* Ignore LANGUAGE if a locale is explicitly specified using the
-L/--locale option (closes: #187751).
* Clarify section 3 as "program libraries" rather than "system libraries"
(closes: #196588).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jun 2003 00:27:37 +0100
man-db (2.4.1-9) unstable; urgency=medium
* Fix detection of decompression programs so that man doesn't attempt to
execute man pages (!) when it doesn't have a decompression program
(thanks, Paul Slootman; closes: #196097).
* Fall back to /usr/bin/compress if compress isn't installed on the build
system.
* Correct a misplaced free() in decompress() that mangled an error
message.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Thu, 5 Jun 2003 00:30:45 +0100
man-db (2.4.1-8) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/postinst: Remove '>/dev/null 2>/dev/null' from start-stop-daemon
invocation (see #154958 and #191249).
* Convert to po-debconf, including hacks for source package compatibility
with woody.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sun, 18 May 2003 23:55:31 +0100
man-db (2.4.1-7) unstable; urgency=low
* Return 0 from xcopy() if the source file doesn't exist, so that mandb
creates databases when asked to update missing ones instead of bailing
out (closes: #187314).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 16:44:54 +0100
man-db (2.4.1-6) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix stupid mistake in xcopy()'s error handling. Thanks to Adam Conrad
for the use of his system (closes: #183102).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 3 Mar 2003 22:02:51 +0000
man-db (2.4.1-5) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix a segfault in the $PATH-searching code (closes: #182661). * Remove obsolete Suggests: groff-x11.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:26:30 +0000
man-db (2.4.1-4) unstable; urgency=low
* Only emit the message pointing to undocumented(7) if the name the user
is looking for is on the $PATH (closes: #176468).
* Improve xcopy()'s error handling. This helps with #167159, although
apparently I'll have to move to db 4.1 to fix it completely.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:08:38 +0000
man-db (2.4.1-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Drop privileges in display_pages() when trying to display a page from a
user manpath. (This isn't a security problem, as privileges were still
correctly dropped while running external programs like pagers. However,
it meant that non-world-readable user manpaths were inaccessible using a
setuid man.)
* Recode this changelog to UTF-8.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jan 2003 03:25:29 +0000
2002
man-db (2.4.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix some cases of uninitialized mandata structs (closes: #151873). * Restore the undocumented(7) message; 2.4.1 implements it using a configure flag which I forgot to add.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 23 Dec 2002 01:06:57 +0000
man-db (2.4.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
* The "no, the apropos segfaults weren't my fault" release.
* New upstream release.
- Add new -W/--where-cat option and arrange for -w to print out only the
location of the nroff page, to make parsing easier (closes: #156558).
- Remove some global variable abuse in the detection of preprocessors
(closes: #153794).
- Export $MAN_PN to the pager (closes: #158658).
- Fix character set lookups again (closes: #158752).
- Add bzip2 decompression support (closes: #159994). Note that this
doesn't mean packages should use it: Debian policy still mandates
gzip, and bzip2 is neither Essential: yes nor depended on by man-db.
- Print an error message and continue when a decompression command
fails, rather than immediately returning CHILD_FAIL (closes: #141981).
- Clarify the purpose of section 7 as "Miscellaneous" (closes: #161505).
- Rewrite the whatis parsing and storing code in check_mandirs.c so that
I can actually understand it, and fix some spurious pointer loops in
the process (closes: #163030).
- Avoid over-enthusiastic access() check on stdin, so that 'man -X -l -'
works (thanks, Peter Muir; closes: #167446).
- Escape man page names when globbing, so that [(1) works properly
(closes: #168129).
- Fix a slightly misfiring check for $LANGUAGE (closes: #171513).
- Detect and rebuild databases with the multi key corruption fixed in
2.4.0-7 (closes: #165625).
* './configure --enable-mandirs=GNU' is no longer necessary; the configure
script figures it out automatically.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sun, 22 Dec 2002 19:43:37 +0000
man-db (2.4.0-11) unstable; urgency=low
* Remove weak alias foolishness from lib/strnlen.c, so that man-db can
build on BSD.
* Add advice to the "No manual entry for %s" message to the effect that
help for undocumented features can be found in undocumented(7). This is
an experimental Debian-specific hack for now to help with #39830, but
can be pushed upstream in time.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 01:04:03 +0000
man-db (2.4.0-10) unstable; urgency=low
* datum.dsize needs to be size_t, not int. This broke s390x, which is
64-bit and big-endian (thanks, Bastian Blank).
* Policy version 3.5.7:
- Drop DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=debug, and support noopt instead.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 21:32:30 +0100
man-db (2.4.0-9) unstable; urgency=low
* Don't fail whatis parse upon encountering EOF in the NAME section of a
man page (closes: #160102).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 11 Sep 2002 19:23:29 +0100
man-db (2.4.0-8) unstable; urgency=low
* Recover if /var/cache/man has been deleted (closes: #159665). * Get rid of spurious "fopen: no such file or directory" message. * Fix '/usr/share/common-license' typo.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Fri, 6 Sep 2002 22:59:55 +0100
man-db (2.4.0-7) unstable; urgency=medium
* Fix segfault with uninitialized info.name and info.filter when scanning
stray cats (thanks, Brendan O'Dea).
* Fix database corruption when deleting one of a group of pages with the
same name from the database. Existing corruption isn't repaired
automatically; if you get "bad fetch on multi key" errors, run 'mandb
--create' as the 'man' user to rebuild the database from scratch
(closes: #159451).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:41:56 +0100
man-db (2.4.0-6) unstable; urgency=low
* Use --quiet in cron jobs rather than redirecting mandb's stdout and
stderr to /dev/null (closes: #133185).
* Point the cron jobs and postinst at /usr/bin/mandb rather than
/usr/lib/man-db/mandb. At some point /usr/lib/man-db is going to go
away, as it's no longer necessary; make sure to bring /etc/cron.*/man-db
up to date if you've changed them manually.
* Compare $DEBIAN_FRONTEND case-insensitively (closes: #154764).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Fri, 9 Aug 2002 01:42:17 +0100
man-db (2.4.0-5) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix segfault when man is asked to display a page that is a dangling
symlink (closes: #151974).
* Improve error message when asked to display a nonexistent page whose
name begins with 'n' or 'l' (which are also section names).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sat, 6 Jul 2002 21:34:04 +0100
man-db (2.4.0-4) unstable; urgency=low
* Make sure the loop that scans for per-system manpaths if $SYSTEM is set
always makes progress (closes: #151270).
* Install man/THANKS.
* Update David Martínez' e-mail address.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jul 2002 22:52:13 +0000
man-db (2.4.0-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Include a bug/reportbug presubj hook to encourage the inclusion of
--debug output in bug reports.
* Fix the "9wm problem" for good (I hope). In the default configuration,
man will now essentially assume that anything beginning with a digit is
a section, but fall back and try it as a name if that doesn't work. So
'man 9wm fvwm' will look for fvwm(9wm) and then try 9wm(1) and fvwm(1)
when that fails, while 'man 3perl Shell' will display Shell(3perl). This
will now work even if man hasn't been explicitly told that 3perl is a
valid section (closes: #151283).
* Don't list 3tcl and 3tk in /etc/manpath.config any more, as this
workaround is now unnecessary (see #115345).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sat, 29 Jun 2002 14:20:18 +0000
man-db (2.4.0-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Don't ask rebuild-database question twice on upgrade (closes: #151131).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:00:01 +0000
man-db (2.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release.
- Restructure the code that finds man pages to allow more flexibility.
Man pages are now located first, then sorted properly before they are
displayed (closes: #107946, #146696).
- Case-insensitive lookups are now the default, although they can be
disabled with -I or --match-case (closes: #108410). The database
format had to be changed to support this, so existing databases will
need to be rebuilt; debconf will ask about this at medium priority. In
the process, move from libdb2 to libdb3.
- Add a new -E/--encoding option to select different nroff devices
(closes: #123994).
- Use groff's utf8 device if the current locale specifies the UTF-8
character set (closes: #129783).
- Various changes that help with displaying output from the forthcoming
groff 1.18. In particular, the -R flag is passed to less - shout if
this causes any problems.
- Work around libdb delays on zero-length databases (closes: #137908).
- Add $MANLESS, which can be used to override all of man's
do-what-I-mean code for setting $LESS (closes: #141403).
- 'apropos --wildcard' anchors on word boundaries by default. Use
--exact as well to revert to the old behaviour (closes: #37686).
- Mention ps and utf8 groff output devices in man(1) (closes: #123997).
- Document mandb's exit codes in its man page (closes: #111851).
- Set less's -M prompt as well as its -m prompt (closes: #123312).
- Give the correct page titles to less when man is invoked recursively
(closes: #139155).
- Use .BR for references in manpage.example (closes: #143389).
* Stop using the wrapper that squashed root privileges down to uid man. It
didn't provide any real security benefits in my opinion, and caused too
many problems (closes: #58112, #74790).
* Updated German and Brazilian Portuguese debconf translations (thanks,
Sebastian Rittau and Andre Luis Lopes).
* Correct path to text manual in doc-base file, and mention some more
formats (thanks, Robert Luberda; closes: #149547).
* start-stop-daemon isn't available when running from debootstrap. Use
perl in the postinst instead to drop privileges in this case (thanks to
Torsten Landschoff for the idea).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 26 Jun 2002 15:40:32 +0000
man-db (2.3.20-20) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix Catalan debconf translation (thanks, Jordi Mallach;
closes: #140294).
* Always build the database on fresh installations. Bug #100616 is now
avoided by starting mandb in the foreground if DEBIAN_FRONTEND =
Noninteractive; I originally thought this was also set when using the
noninteractive frontend normally outside the installer, which apparently
isn't the case.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 15 May 2002 23:07:58 +0100
man-db (2.3.20-19) unstable; urgency=low
* debconf translations:
- Add Catalan (thanks, Antoni Bella; closes: #140294).
- Update Russian (thanks, Ilgiz Kalmetev; closes: #140886).
* debian/cron.daily: Force /var/cache/man to be owned by man, just in case
something else changed it (closes: #129340). If you want the cat
directories to be owned by some other user, use dpkg-statoverride on
/var/cache/man to set this; cron.daily won't touch them then.
* debian/control: Depend on dpkg (>= 1.9.0) for the exit status of
'dpkg-statoverride --list'.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sat, 4 May 2002 20:28:27 +0100
man-db (2.3.20-18) unstable; urgency=medium
* Add French debconf translation (thanks, Philippe Batailler;
closes: #138375).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Fri, 15 Mar 2002 01:46:57 +0000
man-db (2.3.20-17) unstable; urgency=low
* Add Japanese debconf translation (thanks, Tomohiro KUBOTA;
closes: #138110).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:08:42 +0000
man-db (2.3.20-16) unstable; urgency=low
* Adjust Spanish debconf translation (thanks, David Martinez Moreno;
closes: #136981).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sat, 9 Mar 2002 21:10:43 +0000
man-db (2.3.20-15) unstable; urgency=low
* The "mad-db" release.
* Move section 2 in front of the extensions for scripting languages in
section 3 by default, at the request of the Perl maintainer.
* Install DVI and PostScript versions of the manual, for ease of printing
(closes: #134926).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Thu, 21 Feb 2002 09:20:04 +0000
man-db (2.3.20-14) unstable; urgency=medium
* Fix segfault due to reusing a freed pointer in some cases of pages with
multiple names. Thanks to Eirik Fuller for an excellent piece of
analysis (closes: #123130).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Thu, 21 Feb 2002 01:25:17 +0000
man-db (2.3.20-13) unstable; urgency=low
* Add Danish translation (thanks, Morten Brix Pedersen; closes: #122674). * Add Danish debconf translation (thanks, Claus Hindsgaul and Rune B. Broberg; closes: #126606). * Update Spanish debconf translation (thanks, José Luis González González). * Delete spurious backslashes in the less prompt string (closes: #122355).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jan 2002 03:10:06 +0000
2001
man-db (2.3.20-12) unstable; urgency=medium
* Add some text to the install-setuid debconf note to explain that cat
pages only work with "normal" terminal widths, to avoid the denial of
service attack where you cause a cat page to be saved for a
one-character-wide terminal, and that you can override its terminal
width detection using $MANWIDTH. This alleviates #121997, although
there's still a wishlist there to allow the width of cat pages on the
system to be configurable.
* Remove po/fr.gmo in the clean target: binary files can't go in the diff.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sat, 1 Dec 2001 19:41:54 +0000
man-db (2.3.20-11) unstable; urgency=low
* French translation update (thanks, Laurent Pelecq).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sun, 25 Nov 2001 19:58:44 +0000
man-db (2.3.20-10) unstable; urgency=medium
* copy_datum() explicitly null-terminates data returned by libdb2, which
avoids some rare and hard-to-trace segfaults. Many thanks to Manuel
Estrada Sainz for his patience in allowing me to use his system to debug
this over a period of several weeks (closes: #115219, #117009).
* Keep a private hashtable of keys we've received from the database in the
btree code, and return NULL if we get one we've seen already. Although
this slows down database access somewhat, I hope it should get rid of
problems with looped databases for good (closes: #116785).
* Avoid nested calls to strtok() (closes: #119041).
* Don't try to strappend() a string to itself while processing a MANPATH
containing "::" (closes: #119098).
* Display a more useful error message if asked to display a directory
(closes: #120047).
* Stop a memory leak in decompress().
* configure detects that nroff is groff even if /bin/sh is ash.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2001 01:56:01 +0000
man-db (2.3.20-9) unstable; urgency=low
* Drop privileges when reading temporary file to find the list of
preprocessors (closes: #117037).
* Axiom: any bug in man-db may be fixed by additional calls to
drop_effective_privs().
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 11:34:53 +0000
man-db (2.3.20-8) unstable; urgency=low
* Force build-time pager detection to return /usr/bin/pager, even if for
some reason it doesn't exist (closes: #117246).
* Actually remember to run autoconf this time.
* Add 3tcl and 3tk sections to /etc/manpath.config as a workaround until
extensions work properly (closes: #115345).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:46:44 +0000
man-db (2.3.20-7) unstable; urgency=high
* Drop privileges throughout format_display(), and fix use of freed memory
while printing the resulting error message (closes: #117168).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:10:05 +0100
man-db (2.3.20-6) unstable; urgency=low
* Oops, meant to remove --nicelevel from cron.weekly and the postinst too. * Weaken versioned dependency on dpkg.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 10 Oct 2001 21:23:21 +0100
man-db (2.3.20-5) unstable; urgency=low
* Add Russian debconf translation (thanks, Ilgiz Kalmetev;
closes: #114981).
* Remove --nicelevel from cron.daily script until start-stop-daemon is
fixed. Sorry (see #114997).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 20:06:39 +0100
man-db (2.3.20-4) unstable; urgency=medium
* Release Manager: this bug has been in man-db since 2.3.18-3, and meant
that new installations of woody had broken cat directories by default.
It really needs to beat the base system freeze.
* mandb: correctly chown newly created cat directories to man when running
as root (closes: #113764).
* debian/postinst: chown everything in /var/cache/man to man if upgrading
from older versions.
* Build with -Wall.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2001 14:52:25 +0100
man-db (2.3.20-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Suppress spurious "pointer loop" error from apropos/whatis in certain
corner cases (see #113370).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 26 Sep 2001 00:04:55 +0100
man-db (2.3.20-2) unstable; urgency=medium
* lexgrog: Stop the '.' no-op request from eating text on the next line
(it caused problems before .SH NAME), and trim whitespace better.
Urgency medium to match the recent groff upload that tickles this.
* man: Drop privileges throughout local_man_loop() (closes: #111939).
* Various documentation updates, including referring to man(7) from man(1)
and adding some more advice to manpage.example* (thanks, Andreas Dilger;
closes: #112281).
* Policy version 3.5.6.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 19 Sep 2001 02:18:20 +0100
man-db (2.3.20-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release.
- Improve lexgrog so that its output is more machine-parseable, give it
a man page, and move it to /usr/bin.
- mandb's --create option implies --no-purge, to avoid problems when
recreating broken databases (closes: #110738, important).
- man doesn't segfault if LANGUAGE is set but empty (closes: #110309).
- Support 'man --html', with ESR's $BROWSER specification and David A.
Wheeler's modifications for improved security (closes: #108143).
- Reword part of apropos(1) (thanks, Daniel Patterson; closes: #110468).
* Release Manager: we've had most of the code in this release already in
the 2.3.19 series. The lexgrog changes here will be very useful for
tools like lintian, perhaps in time for woody; the code affected by
implementing $BROWSER was previously unsupported.
* All translations (both gettext and man pages) are now very out of date.
Please contact me if you can help.
* debian/rules: Simplify install target; upstream clock-skew bug fixed.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Fri, 7 Sep 2001 19:30:34 +0100
man-db (2.3.19-6) unstable; urgency=low
* Escape shell arguments properly to cope with spaces in man page names
(closes: #27492, #50107).
* Honour more than one MANPATH_MAP entry per $PATH element, providing of
course that the manpath exists (closes: #108979).
* Set roff_device to ascii8 and LESSCHARSET to iso8859 for Korean (thanks,
Ho-seok Lee; closes: #109598, #109599).
* Display an error if setlocale() fails.
* Switch off --html option properly, as it doesn't work very well yet
anyway. The -Thtml option still works.
* Fix count of purged whatis references.
* src/wrapper.c: Include <grp.h> for initgroups().
* debian/control: Improve language of description.
* debian/copyright: Minor updates. Mention Markus Armbruster.
* debian/rules: Build and install /usr/lib/man-db/lexgrog; it's handy for
testing purposes.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sun, 26 Aug 2001 01:20:00 +0100
man-db (2.3.19-5) unstable; urgency=low
* Improve creation of temporary files by using mkstemp() rather than
tempnam(), and by falling back to /tmp if $TMPDIR is unwriteable
(closes: #92459, #102330).
* Clean up manpage.example, and install new examples of man pages written
in POD and DocBook SGML (closes: #96781).
* Include /var/cache/man directory in the .deb. I probably won't install
anything beneath that manually, as it's better that mandb creates them
on the fly as required (closes: #75868).
* Part of 2.3.18-7 accidentally got lost in 2.3.19-1. Here it is again:
- configure.in falls back to standard paths for col, grap, lynx, and
vgrind, so we don't need those as build dependencies any more.
* Make lexgrog no longer misfire on lowercase versions of the various
groff requests that indicate the use of tbl, eqn, etc.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 6 Aug 2001 02:04:17 +0100
man-db (2.3.19-4) unstable; urgency=low
* Look up the correct character set each time a page is displayed, not
just the first time (closes: #104350).
* Check for more translations of the NAME section (cs, fi, hu, nl, and pl,
plus of course Latin; closes: #104352).
* Add debconf translations:
- German (thanks, Sebastian Rittau; closes: #104295).
- Brazilian Portugese (thanks, Andre Luis Lopes; closes: #105359).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jul 2001 16:48:07 +0100
man-db (2.3.19-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Allow whatis entries to point to themselves. This sometimes happens when
multiple names and descriptions are present, and it's easier to tolerate
this.
* Prepend to $LESS rather than appending to it, so that long options work
(closes: #83594).
* Set the modification time of each cat page to be the same as that of the
corresponding man page, and regenerate cat pages if the modtime differs
rather than if it's newer (closes: #22358, #93659).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:24:41 +0100
man-db (2.3.19-2) unstable; urgency=medium
* A bracketing typo made determine_lang_table() never detect anything
except the fallback language. This completely broke at least Japanese
(closes: #103808).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jul 2001 16:36:20 +0100
man-db (2.3.19-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* The "laptop envy (damn tbm for having a nicer one than me)" release.
* New upstream release. Highlights:
- Security fix: make sure decisions about whether to drop privileges are
never taken based on the user configuration file ~/.manpath.
- The ordering of manual sections is now configurable at run-time, using
SECTION directives in the configuration file. This should kill the
last traces of the old 9term(1) bug (closes: #3766, yay!).
- man will no longer try to keep its database caches up to date, even if
it's setuid. No more speed problems, we hope! Instead, it will fall
back to file globbing if database lookups fail. Whatis references will
no longer work if the database isn't up to date enough to contain
them, but I filed bugs on all packages this affects a while ago.
- The globbing is done per-section, so newly installed manual pages will
be noticed properly now (closes: #10106).
- Thanks to some code from another man program, manual pages are now
formatted to an appropriate line length when viewed on a terminal.
Non-standard sizes aren't saved as cat pages. Page lengths are already
resized with recent versions of groff (closes: #25410, #53993).
- mandb(8) now documents how whatis parsing might fail (closes: #77727).
- Whatis parsing treats fill requests correctly (closes: #97916) and
ignores the no-op groff request '.' (closes: #101330).
- Avoid infinite recursion if the database is corrupted such that an
entry points to itself, which I believe shouldn't happen any more
anyway (closes: #102181).
- Let mandb update system databases as root as well as the man user
(closes: #102250).
- Downgrade warning if a manpath element doesn't exist to a debugging
message (closes: #102402); likewise for the warning about relying on
whatis refs being deprecated (see #102678).
- Fixed some details of parsing NAME sections with multiple names in man
pages with multiple symlinks to them (closes: #102678).
- mandb knows how to delete obsolete entries from the database now,
which should help to clean up the effects of old bugs like the above.
This can be disabled with --no-purge.
* Add Spanish debconf translation (thanks, Carlos Valdivia Yagüe;
closes: #102156).
* Add 'mandb --no-purge' invocation in cron.daily, so that apropos and
whatis will continue to work mostly as expected. Since --create isn't
used any more, it should be quite fast. This should alleviate most
problems caused by turning off automatic database updates. A cron.weekly
entry remains which also purges old database entries.
* Add SECTION entries for 3pm and 3perl to make sure Perl modules come
before core (this was formerly set at compile-time).
* The .deb doesn't contain setuid binaries any more, so remove the lintian
overrides.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Thu, 5 Jul 2001 16:13:37 +0100
man-db (2.3.18-10) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix handling of symlinks pointing outside a mantree to relative .so
links, which should then be interpreted as pointing back inside the
mantree (ugh). ult_src() relied on a restriction I removed in 2.3.17.1-5
(closes: #101559).
* Fix format string bug in zsoelim (closes: #102001).
* Use start-stop-daemon instead of su in cron.daily too (closes: #101892).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sat, 23 Jun 2001 16:07:39 +0100
man-db (2.3.18-9) unstable; urgency=high
* While configuring, if the database is missing and we aren't setuid,
don't build it; it will probably get out of date quickly anyway. This
involves substantial debconf rearrangements, and I examine the seen flag
so I need debconf (>= 0.5). Urgency high because the boot-floppies were
having trouble with mandb starting in the background (closes: #100616).
* When starting mandb in the background, use start-stop-daemon rather than
su to avoid spurious syslog output. --nicelevel needs dpkg (>= 1.8.0).
* manpath(1): s/semicolon/colon/ (thanks, Gordon Sadler; closes: #100362).
* Comment out code supporting the man page hierarchy organization of other
operating systems, as it sometimes misfires on Debian (e.g. dpkg(8) vs.
dpkg.rb(1)). This will be solved more neatly upstream (closes: #99766).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 13 Jun 2001 16:08:04 +0100
man-db (2.3.18-8) unstable; urgency=medium
* Fix infinite loop in pathappend() if man pages are present for both a
given language and that language with a country code (closes: #100119).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jun 2001 18:13:36 +0100
man-db (2.3.18-7) unstable; urgency=medium
* Folded in changelog entry from 2.3.16-4 security update. The backport
was from upstream 2.3.18, so the vulnerability didn't apply to unstable.
* Allow .PP etc. as well as .br between whatis definitions (e.g. pod2man).
* Make straycats use 'col -bx' rather than 'col-bx' (thanks, Matt Kraai;
closes: #98923).
* The response to the above was a rather excessive exit(). straycats
should now continue gracefully instead (thanks, Andrew Suffield).
* Fix silly date format in man-db's English man pages.
* pathappend() now eliminates duplicate manpaths (closes: #99667).
* configure.in falls back to standard paths for col, grap, lynx, and
vgrind, so we don't need those as build dependencies any more.
* groff has been split! Depend on the base package, suggest the others.
* The previous fix for #47000 only worked for read-only directories, not
read-only filesystems. Fix it harder.
* gettext seems to be broken with the new autoconf. Hack it for now.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 6 Jun 2001 18:27:24 +0100
man-db (2.3.18-6) unstable; urgency=low
* Note in man-db/build-database and man-db/rebuild-database templates that
the build will happen in the background and possibly slow down
installation of other packages (closes: #71931).
* Bump priority of man-db/rebuild-database (not man-db/build-database)
question to medium.
* Various updates from CVS for autoconf 2.50.
* Avoid autoconf build-dep by touching configure and stamp-h.in in build
and clean (ugh - remember to run the autotools manually).
* Improved configure's checks for Berkeley DB to correctly handle newer
headers with dbopen() defined as a macro (thanks, Duncan Simpson).
* Fix a thinko in whatis parsing that meant "foo," would sometimes be
stored in the database alongside "foo".
* If we can't write to a cat page (e.g. man isn't setuid), don't bother to
open a compressor to /dev/null, so that man can abort straight away
rather than formatting whole pages into the bit-bucket when a user quits
the pager early (closes: #98528).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sat, 26 May 2001 20:26:25 +0100
man-db (2.3.18-5) unstable; urgency=low
* Remove /usr/bin/man and /usr/bin/mandb on prerm remove (closes: #98221). * Stop using statoverrides in the postinst, as it's too hard to tell between maintainer-script-installed overrides and admin-installed overrides. Instead use ordinary chown/chmod (thanks, Michal Politowski; closes: #98224).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 21 May 2001 22:52:05 +0100
man-db (2.3.18-4) unstable; urgency=low
* Call db_stop in the postinst, just to be safe. I have a feeling
redirecting stdout and stderr to /dev/null when running mandb might not
be enough.
* Don't remove catdirs in the postinst, even if we're upgrading from old
versions that did that.
* Remove some output in the postinst - whoops. Upgrades from <= 2.3.17.1-5
to 2.3.18-3 were probably broken.
* If it turns out that we have to (re)build the database, ask a
low-priority debconf question about it (defaulting to yes). Rebuilding
should happen much less often now in any case (closes: #74579).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sun, 20 May 2001 19:34:55 +0100
man-db (2.3.18-3) unstable; urgency=low
* So, I flame Peter T. Breuer on Usenet for his bug report being several
bugs rolled up into one and being full of flamage itself. Then I think,
well, since I'm ranting about it, I may as well see if I can fix it. Of
course, it now turns out that fixing that was key to a load of other
bugs. So I apologize to Peter and promise, again, to write the code
before spouting off in future. :)
* If opening a database or a cat page fails due to a lack of permissions
(e.g. a read-only partition), recover gracefully and only complain about
it in debug mode (addresses part of bug #47000).
* Improved documentation of MANDB_MAP directives in /etc/manpath.config
(addresses the other part of that bug, so closes: #47000).
* Once man and mandb don't complain about certain classes of permission
problems, it becomes easy to install them non-setuid. Since in this mode
man can't write cat pages or update the database on the fly, non-setuid
is the default but a debconf question asks whether to install them
setuid. I hope this meets the concerns about man-db's security policy
(closes: #42128).
* As well as the above, the recent security updates should have made sure
that man and mandb drop privileges at the right times, and so can read
privately-owned directories (closes: #42479, #42791).
* In non-setuid mode there's no need to use the root-squashing wrapper.
I'm not going to close related bugs yet, as they're still present for
those who install setuid; I still intend to split the setuid stuff out
into a separate process and remove the wrapper entirely.
* The postinst and cron.weekly now explicitly su to man to run mandb,
since the wrapper might not be present.
* If searching for a page in the database returns no output, check the
filesystem anyway, as the database might not be up to date.
* Tidied up parsing of multiple whatis keys in .SH NAME sections, so that
each separate name gets assigned its own whatis entry correctly.
Separating items in the NAME section with newlines remains unsupported,
as at the moment man pages can get away with spreading their whatis
description over multiple lines and I'd rather not break them
gratuitously. However, multiple items will be recognized (and have been
for a long time, albeit brokenly up to now) if they are separated by a
.br (break) request. *roff doesn't normally do much with newlines in the
middle of paragraphs in its input, so this is consistent. See bug #97916
for more details (closes: #17735).
* Updated tools/config.sub to know about the sh/sheb architectures.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sat, 19 May 2001 19:29:39 +0100
man-db (2.3.18-2) unstable; urgency=medium
* man would segfault if the argument to -S contained only colons, and
incidentally treated an empty argument to -S wrongly. Both cases now use
the standard list of sections instead (thanks, Colin Phipps and Stephen
Shirley; closes: #97553, #97566).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 19:36:12 +0100
man-db (2.3.18-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release, incorporating changes from Wilf's 2.3.11 and
2.3b12 releases as well as all my upstream-relevant changes to date. At
long last the Debian diff is a manageable size.
* Build the manual from the original nroff source. HTML is gone for now,
until I can get satisfactory output from grohtml.
* Remove build dependency on html2text as a result of the above.
* Build-depend on lynx, as configure checks for its path.
* jgroff no longer exists, so drop the alternative dependency on it.
* Remove debian/rules cruft to generate configure, which is now definitely
built upstream.
* The configuration file is now partially automatically generated, and is
called man_db.conf upstream. The Debian package still uses
manpath.config for now to save me having to do the hacking necessary to
move a conffile.
* According to FHS 2.1, the location of locally installed man pages is
/usr/local/share/man rather than /usr/local/man. The upstream
configuration file now has /usr/local/man mapped to
/var/cache/man/oldlocal and /usr/local/share/man mapped to
/var/cache/man/local. Move .../local to .../oldlocal in the postinst to
save regenerating cat pages.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 00:00:56 +0100
man-db (2.3.17.1-5) unstable; urgency=low
* Formally took over upstream maintenance. No release yet, but updated
debian/copyright with new location of upstream source (and also Wilf's
distribution site for old sources).
* Generate man-db-manual.txt from man-db-manual.html at build time using
html2text, rather than including it in the diff. (The next upstream
release will have both generated from the original nroff source.)
* Don't run configure in the clean rule, and ignore errors due to not
finding the makefile. In normal autobuilds it just wastes time.
* Bumped database format version to 2.3.2. This really should have been
done a long time ago.
* If database information is found to be in an old format, then ignore it
and use the filesystem instead. mandb will fix it up when it's run, as
it is in the postinst (although this may well become optional soon).
* Explicitly close the database if the version number is wrong, so that
the above works.
* Lower warnings about wrong version numbers to debugging messages.
* All hail debootstrap for making the testing above so painless!
* Taught lexgrog how to detect grap and vgrind. Preprocessor lines (with
'\", see man(1)) are no longer strictly necessary for these. It's still
good practice to declare what preprocessors your man page needs if it
uses any - even tbl - for compatibility with older versions of man.
* History updates for the man pages.
* Made accessdb check for /var/cache/man in preference to /var/catman, and
updated the man page accordingly. (Incidentally, I'd have preferred it
if the Japanese translator hadn't improvised text that wasn't in the
English version, as now I don't know how to update it to keep up with
this change. Please don't do this in future.)
* Fixed the --test option to mandb (it really doesn't alter existing
databases now), and documented it. It should be almost feasible to use
it for lintian checks now, if need be (closes: #5360).
* Generate a warning if displaying a page requires going through a whatis
reference with no link in the filesystem. Supporting this is necessarily
a major performance hog; see policy bug #94995 for more information.
* Removed code preventing symlinks outside a mantree from working. I can't
see how it's a security problem, and in some situations (e.g. stow) such
symlinks are useful (closes: #94642).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sat, 5 May 2001 00:19:00 +0100
man-db (2.3.17.1-4) unstable; urgency=high
* Drop privileges in mandb when creating a temporary database in a
user-supplied manual hierarchy. Thanks to Ethan Benson for observing
this vulnerability.
* This was also fixed in 2.3.16-3 in potato; folded in changelog entries
from security updates.
* I noticed a stray /etc/cron.weekly/catman on my system. Although it was
definitely from this package, I can't quite work out from the changelog
when it was removed. At any rate, it's obsolete, so clean it up.
* Removed a spurious space in accessdb's usage output.
* whatis/apropos: Complain and exit immediately if a key in the database
is missing its value, indicating database corruption. Also disable
optimized btree walk for now, as seq() seems to be more tolerant of this
than get() for reasons I haven't tracked down yet (closes: #95052).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 30 Apr 2001 23:53:42 +0100
man-db (2.3.17.1-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Move the wrapper from /usr/bin/man-wrapper to /usr/lib/man-db/wrapper,
since there's no reason to execute it directly. This also means we can
lose man-wrapper(1), which wasn't terribly informative anyway.
* Make "bad symlink" output quieter (2.3.17.1-1 made it noisier by
mistake).
* Use the latin1 character set again for the C and POSIX locales.
* Updated Japanese translations (thanks, UCHIDA Norihiro; closes: #76774).
The ja_JP.ujis directory is still present, as a Debian diff can't remove
it. I'll remove it in the next upstream release.
* The order of locale variable checking was corrected some time ago by
calling setlocale(LC_ALL, ""). Added support for the case where
LC_MESSAGES is set differently from other categories, and for selecting
multiple locale preferences with LANGUAGE (thanks, Claudio S. Suarez
Sanchez and Tomohiro KUBOTA; closes: #40743).
* Correct first line of /etc/manpath.config (closes: #94090).
* Make /etc/manpath.config a dpkg-handled conffile and dispose of the hack
to convert old configuration files to the FHS.
/usr/share/man-db/chconfig is still there if people want to use it.
* util-linux (essential) has provided /usr/bin/pager since version 2.7.1-1
in September 1997. I think we can safely assume it's there now.
* Don't preserve the configure script any more; just generate it each
time. It should go in the next upstream tarball.
* Updated --version output, and fixed configure to find the version number
properly.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:23:30 +0100
man-db (2.3.17.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Really fix makefile permissions. It looks like makefile was only in the
Debian diff, not the .orig.tar.gz, so there's no need to preserve it to
avoid a massive diff (closes: #90302 again).
* Just update the database in cron.weekly rather than creating it from
scratch. If the database format changes, the postinst will sort it out;
if the database becomes corrupt, you're going to want to fix it more
quickly than next week anyway (closes: #39842).
* 'apropos -w' really does wildcard matches now (thanks, KAMBAYASHI
Hiroyuki; closes: #77624).
* Updated docs/ToDo (using zlib rather than gzip would be good).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sun, 1 Apr 2001 14:37:28 +0100
man-db (2.3.17.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* New maintainer. Fabrizio, may the road rise up to meet you. * Might as well acknowledge my NMUs (closes: #41915, #60084, #60867; closes: #61198, #71797, #71932, #72292, #76107, #78086, #83019, #84128; closes: #84334, #84926, #85049, #85314, #85421, #85463, #85812, #86108; closes: #86892, #87195, #87420, #87541). * Converted to debhelper, and otherwise substantially rewrote the build process. debian/{p.skeleton,policy,source-depends} are gone, and debian/conffiles too as debhelper v3 handles that. * Unfortunately, much of the debian/ directory was in the upstream tarball, and dpkg-source ignores deletions. To get around this, I made a new "upstream" tarball, which is identical to 2.3.17 except without the debianization (hence the sub-sub-minor revision). * debian/rules: - Preserve ownership and permissions while copying files in the clean target to avoid inadvertent root ownership (closes: #90302). - Really set LDFLAGS, and pass it at the build stage rather than in configure so that I can get unstripped binaries easily. - DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=debug was broken due to missing quotes. Fixed. * debian/{pre,post}{inst,rm}: - Reformatted somewhat and removed things debhelper does already. - Removed call to update-menus in postrm. - Only rebuild the database when the database format has changed or the database is missing, and only remove catpages on purge. Hacked preinst to deal with old packages' postrms removing catpages unconditionally. - No need to su to run mandb; man-wrapper will sort that out. - Clean up a cron job left around from the old man package in rex (closes: #67000). * Updated policy version to 3.5.2: no changes required. * Depend on bsdmainutils rather than just suggesting it. Users might legitimately want stray cats (pages, that is ...) on their system, even if they aren't installed by Debian packages (closes: #64183). * Added lintian overrides (setuid-binary /usr/lib/man-db/{man,mandb} 4755 man/root). * Clarified manpage.example (thanks, Kevin Ryde; closes: #52525). * Call setlocale() with LC_ALL rather than LC_MESSAGES (patch from GOTO Masanori; closes: #75559). If somebody with experience of locale programming could tell me whether the patch in #40743 makes sense, it would be much appreciated. * The Perl maintainer is putting core Perl module man pages in the .3perl namespace, so that should follow .3pm (to allow vendor pages to shadow core). Added that to include/manconfig.h.in. * Significantly improved man's behaviour when new packages are installed and it decides to rescan the man hierarchies. Its logic for working out what pages it had seen before and put in its database didn't quite cope with symlinks, so every link to undocumented(7) and so on got rescanned and gunzipped. Fixed the logic in all but pathological cases (.so links to symlinks, say, but Don't Do That Then). If a lot of manual pages have been changed recently, it still reads them all, but this should be a lot less painful now.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sat, 31 Mar 2001 18:07:46 +0100
man-db (2.3.17-3.2) unstable; urgency=medium
* Non-maintainer upload.
* Quieten cron.weekly again. Even if I'd remembered --quiet, it will still
report real errors in the man page hierarchy, such as broken symlinks;
there are quite a lot of those in Debian right now, and it isn't
important enough to mail root about it every week (will reopen #28828,
but closes: #87541).
* Change to the root directory so cron.daily doesn't get "Permission
denied" (closes: #87195, #87694).
* More *roff and /dev/null fixes in configure. This one restores the
mandoc macros so that PostScript output looks sensible again
(closes: #87420).
* Build-depend on grap and vgrind so we always get paths to them.
* Improved description of -M option in man page (closes: #71932).
* Corrected a couple of "it's" -> "its" typos.
* The FHS transition took place almost two years ago, but the code for
updating manpath.config is still around. The configuration file is now
only updated when the previous version of man-db was earlier than
2.3.10-69j, and config_md5 is no longer dynamically updated in
debian/rules based on the current build machine. Also move chconfig and
config_md5 into /usr/share/man-db.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 28 Feb 2001 21:02:41 +0000
man-db (2.3.17-3.1) unstable; urgency=high
* Non-maintainer upload.
* Apply patch for format string vulnerability (thanks, Colin Phipps and
Martin Schulze; closes: #84128, #84334, #85314).
* Migrate from suidregister to dpkg-statoverride (closes: #85049, #86108).
* Do the 'make install' step manually in debian/rules. On a clock-skewed
machine, the existing code would decide to rebuild the binaries and end
up hardwiring the temporary build directory into them. This caused
problems in an Alpha security upload; that was fixed binary-only, but
this should prevent it recurring (closes: #85421, #85463, #85812).
* Worked around change in nroff's behaviour for configure - it no longer
accepts /dev/null as an input file (thanks, Fumitoshi UKAI;
closes: #76107, #83019).
* Updated policy version to 3.5.1:
- Added build dependencies (closes: #61198). This includes a
build-depends on libdb2-dev after its split from glibc in glibc 2.2,
so there's now no need for special handling (closes: #41915).
- Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
* Clean the source package properly. As per the changelog comment in
2.3.17-2, I'll leave configure and makefile there, but other generated
files need to be removed or autobuilders may have random problems.
* Rename /usr/bin/wrapper to /usr/bin/man-wrapper until somebody makes it
generic (closes: #60084).
* Make man-db almost lintian-clean:
- Strip binaries.
- Wrote a brief man page for man-wrapper.
- Make /usr/bin/man and /usr/bin/mandb symlinks to man-wrapper to avoid
the mess of creating hardlinks in the postinst, which broke md5sums as
far as lintian was concerned. With statoverrides this doesn't leave a
window where man and mandb are setuid root.
* Check arguments to maintainer scripts so we don't do things like calling
mandb on a failed upgrade (closes: #60867).
* The test '-x $(which foo)' doesn't always do something predictable.
Replace it with better idioms where the maintainer scripts use it.
* perl-base is essential, so no need to check for perl being available.
* util-linux is essential, so no need to check for more being available.
* Fix segfault where apropos couldn't find an identifying string for a man
page (thanks, Les Schaffer; closes: #71797).
* Don't throw away errors in cron.weekly (closes: #28828).
* Make -s option to mandb really not check for stray cats
(closes: #78086).
* Run cron.daily as user man; mandb is already wrapped by man-wrapper, so
cron.weekly is fine (thanks, Wolfram Kleff; closes: #72292).
* If a gzip subprocess is interrupted and we clean up the temp file, make
sure we don't try to do it again in the atexit() hook (closes: #84926).
* Add another chdir() so that 'man -l' with a relative path to a
compressed man page works again.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 21 Feb 2001 00:54:47 +0000
2000
man-db (2.3.17-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Cadded chmod to have configure executable. Thanx to Roman Hodek.
This closes: #69226.
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Wed, 16 Aug 2000 17:06:31 +0300
man-db (2.3.17-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Commented away call to distclean_root in GNUmakefile: need to leave
the Makefile and configure in the tarball.
* Found and fixed subtle bug which made wrapper uselessly linked with
-ldb2. When invoked by root on a system which enables group.db, then
the call to initgroups() segfaults due to the libc link to libdb!
This closes: #65474.
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Fri, 7 Apr 2000 10:50:45 +0300
man-db (2.3.17-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Corrected apparent disappearing of option -e in apropos.
* Corrected wrong usage of undocumented option -X which produced error
when passed to filters. This is now parametrized as optional
argument, defaulting to use devX75. Documented in usage :
-X = -TX75, -X100 = -TX100, -X100-12 = -TX100-12.
* Applyed patch submitted by Tomohiro KUBOTA:
* roff_device and LESSCHARSET are determined by user environment rather
than language of manpage for English manpage.
* roff_device "ascii8" is used for non-English/non-ISO-8859-1 languages.
Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.or.jp> Sat, 22 Apr 2000 14:48:48 +0900
closes: #62844.
Because of this patch, changed versioned dependency to new groff.
* Added new check for libdb in configure.in
* Added /usr/local/{share/}man to config file, due to bug in FHS,
thanx to Gregor Hoffleit. Closes: #61058.
* Added new message catalog po file for cs (czech) (4 new messages),
thanx to Vladimir Michl.
* tired of people continously complaining that man behaves differently
than in RedHat (which is "The Reference Linux", you all know that),
I'll add tbl as default filter for man. This will fix those three
or four manpages that do not take the burden to declare their
dependency on the tbl formatter (usually because upstream uses
RedHat and so ...). Now what would I do if someone fill a bug
against this because of wasting of CPU cicles for un-necessary
filtering on the hundreds of pages that do not need tbl? I would
certainly agree with them. Therefore I will fix this introducing
scanning of manpages a la grog in mandb, and storing the result in
the database. ...[noise of hacking and debugging]... Well, I did
it (use accessdb to see it!). It took 4 weekend (stolen to the
implementation of man 2.4) to complete and debug. Now you can
announce the world that man-db 2.3.17 knows in advance which filters
to run when processing a manpage which is in the database.
This rant closes: #63497; be happy!:wq
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Fri, 7 Apr 2000 10:50:45 +0300
man-db (2.3.16-4) stable; urgency=high
* Backport another security fix from unstable.
* Count how many times privileges have been dropped, and don't regain them
until regain_effective_privs() is called the same number of times. The
lack of nesting meant it was still possible to create files owned by uid
man (thanks, Luki R.; closes: #99624).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 23:50:31 +0000
man-db (2.3.16-3) stable; urgency=high
* The last upload regained privileges too early; an attacker could
potentially remove execute permissions from files owned by man. My
apologies for not detecting this earlier.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:53:05 +0000
man-db (2.3.16-2) stable; urgency=high
* Security upload by new maintainer.
* Drop privileges in mandb when creating a temporary database in a
user-supplied manual hierarchy. Thanks to Ethan Benson for observing
this vulnerability.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sun, 29 Apr 2001 23:10:24 +0100
man-db (2.3.16-1.1) stable; urgency=high
* Non-maintainer upload by Security Team * Fixed unquoted throughpassing of format strings that could crash man
-- Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 23:27:53 +0100
man-db (2.3.16-1) frozen unstable; urgency=high
* Applyed patch submitted by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena to permit
search of trnlated manpages before giving the first english one
found. Closes: #61697.
* Forgot the ignore dash in tags target in debian/rules, which made it
adding a non necessary source dependance. Closes: #61199.
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:00:16 +0200
man-db (2.3.15) frozen unstable; urgency=high
* Just recompiled, with an upgraded potato system.
Let's see if this wipes away the grave installation problem listed
in bugs #60339, #60399, #60411, #60515.
In that case, I'll close these bugs by hand :-)
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:00:16 +0200
man-db (2.3.14) frozen unstable; urgency=high
* if unconfigured, it install binaries setuid root!
also closes: #32213.
* Forgot to put different md5sum for man and mandb in md5sums file.
debsums was failing on them as they were modifyed by postinst.
Closes: #59677, #60023 thanx to Lee Maguire.
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Mon, 6 Mar 2000 12:35:35 +0200
man-db (2.3.13) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Applied patch to avoid disappearing of index file during
regeneration. Thanx to Colin Phipps, closes: #58887.
* Applied patch to generate secure temporary file in straycat.
Thanx to Colin Phipps, closes: #58900.
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:09:05 +0200
man-db (2.3.12) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Applied security patch for forcing regeneration of secure temp file
instead of reusing it. Thanx to Colin Phipps who audited it and
submitted a patch. Closes: #58271.
* Written new wrapper in C. It installs as /usr/bin/wrapper and is
hardlinked to man and mandb while configuring. The package installs
a one line script (as /usr/bin/man and /usr/bin/mandb) that simply
inform that the package is not configured; it is removed by postinst
and replaced by hardlinks with /usr/bin/wrapper.
Thanx to Ethan Benson, Colin Phipps.
* Simply incremented minor number, to make Josip Rodin happy.
Not only it is a native Debian package, but is is also a "new
upstream release"(TM) :-) (and yes, I've changed the version
number also in configure.in :-)
* Added explicit proto in straycat.c as now libc has canonicalize_file_name().
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Tue, 22 Feb 2000 16:41:33 +0200
man-db (2.3.10-71) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* after exaustive discussion of debian-devel, the wrapper script has
been fixed. Thanx to Ethan Benson, Marcus Brinkman, Petr Cech.
Closes #57566.
* added double dependency to groff or jgroff.
* added updated cs po file and a small fix to avoid a warning, thanx
to the precious contribution of Vladimir Michl.
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Tue, 8 Feb 2000 17:01:36 +0200
man-db (2.3.10-70) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* security fix: moved setuid binaries to /usr/lib/man-db and added
shell wrapper to execute as user nobody when invoked by root.
This would avoid having anybody running man as root, or cron running
mandb.
* Added more granularity in the "quietness" of mandb, and added option
test to simply check the correctness of manpages, to allow lintian
and/or dh_install_manpages to report warnings.
* fixed a typo in spanish message catalog.
Thanx to Jose Dapena Paz, closes: #56204.
* added (but not enabled) new option -H (-Thtml) to take advantage of
new html driver (still experimental but getting better) in groff.
* as a consequence, added versioned dependency to groff >= 1.15
* corrected location of GPL in copyright file.
* corrected headers in po files for it and de.
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jan 2000 13:49:42 +0200
1999
man-db (2.3.10-69s) unstable; urgency=low
* added symlinks for /usr/doc (in postinst and prerm). * changed installation of japanes manpages to dir "ja". * Corrected incomplete apply of HURD patch. Closes: #48052. * Changed configure.in and libdb/mydbm.h to force inclusion of correct db_185.h header. Thanx to Marcus Brinkmann. * Corrected use of setlocale in files other that man.c; closes: #48128, thanx to "David Huggins-Daines". also closes: #48495.
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 1999 03:33:23 +0300
man-db (2.3.10-69r) unstable; urgency=low
* Modified utility accessdb to default to FHS location of the cache.
* Reduced verbosity of mandb when -q option is used; thanx to
Francesco Potorti` <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>; closes: #28819.
* corrected location of manual in menu and use of doc-base.
Thanx to "J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)" <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>
closes: #47434.
* applied patch for locale setting (also to manpath and whatis), and
for inclusion of locale dirs in path. Thanx to Michael Sobolev
<mss@transas.com> and to Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>;
closes: #46853.
* Added message catalog in French, translated by Laurent Pelecq
<laurent.pelecq@wanadoo.fr>, but mainly thanx to Raphael Hertzog who
made this possible (I tried several times :-)
Now, when we'll get also the manpages in French?
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 1999 03:33:23 +0300
man-db (2.3.10-69p) unstable; urgency=low
* added default LESSCHARSET for latin1 in case of no LANG.
thanx to <lowe@asel.udel.edu>, closes: #46628.
* Added manpages in japanese, translated by Takeo NAKANO
<nakano@apm.seikei.ac.jp>, thanx to
nabetani@kern.phys.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp, closes: #46600
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:15:52 +0300
man-db (2.3.10-69o) unstable; urgency=low
* re-established correct behaviour for -t option, thanx to Roland
Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.de>, closes: #46592.
* this part was in 69n, but I forgot the ':'
* all manpage locations doubled because of a slash :-)
thanx to Lazarus Long and Wichert Akkerman.
Closes: #46448, #46497.
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 13:30:25 +0300
man-db (2.3.10-69m) unstable; urgency=high
* grave: it looks like acting in the postinst as dpkg does for generic
conffiles brakes man, which mow cannot work without that file.
I don't know if this is a bug per-se (man should run even without
config file), but I've changed the postinst to default on copying
the current config file.
Closes: #46363, #46367 (and several others, while it reaches the
mirrors?)
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 10:37:46 +0300
man-db (2.3.10-69k) unstable; urgency=low
* problems with locale.
modified check of locale directory to try all combinations.
This should permit installing in xx while using LANG=xx_XX.YYY
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 18:57:16 +0300
man-db (2.3.10-69j) unstable; urgency=low
* made compliant to policy 3.0.1
* Gone through a quick check of all bugs (61!):
Problems fixed in previous releases, but never closed:
closes: #35336, #20949, #21016, #21240, #23239, #23267, #24267,
#24604, #24691, #25825, #26002, #26038, #26077, #26222, #26465,
#27858, #32036, #32759, #33679, #34643, #41748.
* removed setuid permissions from file in tarball, as postinst handle
them properly. Closes #32213.
* changed the copyright file to point out that the author has passed
maintainership. Also changed location of his ftp site.
closes #41737, #30153.
* found (and fixed) nasty bug in reading config file that
segfaulted on too large files. Now stops reading and procede.
* Added japanese support. Thanx to Taketoshi
Sano <sano@debian.org> and Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>.
Closes: Bug#38107.
* partially eliminated feature to display file when manpage is
not found, limiting it only when the argument is a pathname
containing the character '/'.
closes: #41205, #41715, #45979.
* created perl script /usr/lib/man-db/chconfig that scans the
file in argument (the man confile) and upgrade it to FHS.
Its call from postinst is checked also against perl presence.
* removed /etc/manpath.config from conffiles;
added in postinst automatic copy of it if the existing one isn't
being modified, or using the new script to validate it and upgrade
to FHS. Treat correctly absence of the config file (??) and allow
insertion of keyword NOFHS in /etc/manpath.config to avoid its
update.
* added list of md5sums from previous conffiles, to help detect
unmodified ones. Added to rules file the automatic adding of
a new md5 if a new conffile is created.
(so maintainers don't have to maintain it)
* added Japanese message catalog, curtesy of
Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>; closes: bug#43845.
* added corrected translations in Italian, thanx to
Giovanni Bortolozzo <borto@dei.unipd.it>
* changed tests in configure.in to detect new libdb installed from
glibc. Closes: bug#39646
* corrected typos in control file, thanx to Richard Braakman
<dark@xs4all.nl>, closes: bug#39687
* corrected use of LANG in locale.
thanx to ypwong@debian.org, closes: bug#39281.
* added patch for HURD for canonicalize_file_name thanx to
Marcus Brinkmann (brinkmd@debian.org), closes: bug#39039.
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jun 1999 10:37:29 +0300
man-db (2.3.10-69i) unstable; urgency=low
* In man-db -69i:
* In man-db -69FIX.1:
* Added unlink of temporary file between call to tempnam and open to
reduce (without completely avoiding it) the possibility that a
malicious user puts a dangling symlink to let man leave a file
(with a manpage inside :-) in places different that the temporary
directory. Not a security risk at all, IMO.
* Added secure open of temporary file in zsoelim.l , thanx to
Marc Heuse <marc@suse.de>. The code was not secure against a
symlink attack. This didn't affect 'man', which does not excute
that part of the code, but only manual execution of zsoelim.
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jun 1999 10:37:29 +0300
man-db (2.3.10-69h) unstable; urgency=low
* In man-db -69h:
* Corrected problem that did not permit finding local manpages as
default (without -l , as added in version -69g) if the pathname was
not an absolute pathname. (found by me :-)
* avoided error message "file not found" in case of failed
local search as default after failed search ob database.
Thanx to <jpt@cif.rochester.edu>, closes bug#37882.
* added new czech message catalog, thanx to Vladimir Michl
<Vladimir.Michl@seznam.cz>
* updated manual page man(1), example section, to make more clear
that man -k and man -f runs apropos and whatis.
Closes: #35741.
* updated usage string and manual page for apropos, to reflect the
use of -r as default, and the addition of -e to get the previous
behaviour.
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 10:49:11 +0300
unknown (unknown1) unknown; urgency=unknown
* In man-db -69g: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 20:27:12 +0300
* corrected typo in aclocal.m4 that made detection of broken pclose
unavailable for configure. Thanx to UNO Takeshi <uno@sysplan.co.jp>
for the report and the patch. Closes: #35608.
* Added ability to suppose -l when no manpage is available; this
enhancement was requested in bug#19999 and #23567
* Added patch to fix bug#25270 (uninitialized var which made ignore
the config file) thanx to cph@martigny.ai.mit.edu (Chris Hanson)
for the report and the patch. This problem was also described by
Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.rhein.de> in bug #30646.
* made czech message catalog available. When for manpages?
* In man-db -69f: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 16:17:58 +0300
* corrected bug in manp.c introduced in 69e (missing xstrdup).
My apologizes. Closes: #35326, #35353, #35354 .
I hope it fixes also #35355 and #35336, but as I wasn't able to
reproduce it, I'm not able to test its fix :-)
* corrected typo in mandb.8 (/omitted/emitted/) (I remember having
fixed it already ... maybe I'm getting too old?)
* added message catalog in czech translated last year by
Vladimir.Michl@upol.cz and added using the wrong format and
later forgot. How can I be forgiven?
* In man-db -69e:
* Corrected typo in german messages file, thanx to Christian Hammers
<ch@lathspell.westend.com> for the hint.
* added enhancement to get manpath add default values from config
file to value in MANPATH env var according to presence of redundant
semicolon; suggested by Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> in
wishlist bug#19999.
TODO:
modify manpage, manual and so to describe new enhancement to
$MANPATH management; trailing or leading spare semicolon make add
the manpath derived from config files to the content of the var. A
double semicolon in the middle of the var makes insertion of the
rules derived into the var.
* added management of a user conf file ~/.manpath , with the same
syntax of /etc/manpath.conf, whose content is added to the default
conf file. It remains to be demonstrated if handling of cache works
as expected in all cases.
This enhancement, binded with the previous one, gives users
complete control over user managed mapages, which is quite more
needed out of Linux, in other OSes.
* In man-db -69d:
* Wrong change in manpath.config: it built two indexes for /usr/man
and /usr/share/man, and put both in /var/cache/man , so the second
overwrote the first. Thanx to Matthew Eaton, closes: #34636.
* In man-db -69c:
* put back the config file into /etc ... :-)
* found a bug in postinst that didn't rebuild the index.
* In man-db -69b:
* corrected lintian's error in menu file.
* modifyed cron.daily
* moved configuration file to /etc/menu/
created list of sections in /etc/menu/sections.list
The idea is to have mandb create it when scanning manpages.
* FHS compliance:
- add /usr/share/man in /etc/manpath.conf
- move /var/catman to /var/cache/man
* user's changes need manual update.
* absolutely DON'T SYMLINK /usr/man !! Otherways you'll get double
entries in the database.
* removed FSSTND keyword from manpath.conf and its handling in the
code, as it was a hack messing up names.
- start installing manpages in /usr/share/man
Don't worry about old packages installing into /usr/man .
man is designed to search pages on several directories!
- modify {pre,post}{inst,rm} scripts.
* TODO:
* modify docs (manpages and manual) to reflect these changes.
* raise bug to lintian to get a version that complains for manpages
* in /usr/man and recognize manpages in /usr/share/man .
.
* In man-db -69a: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 19:32:25 +0200
* Applyed (manually) patch to handle -l option (pipe from stdin)
Thanx to Peter Maydell <pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> who
wrote the patch. (should fix: #3739, #21445)
* Modifyed apropos (and man -k ) behaviour to make -r option the
default, even in absence of the env POSIXLY_CORRECT.
Added option -e (--exact ) to permit the previous behaviour,
when the keywords match only full words in the descriptions.
Modifyed the usage of man and apropos.
Need to modify the manpages and the manual.
Thanx to Ian Jackson who posted the suggestion eons ago.
(should fix: #3788 )
* TODO:
* To fix bug #5360 (which is not a bug in man-db) I want to create
a manpage installer program that checks all the common errors
in manpages like broken symlinks, wrong section, wrong location,
missing of preprocessor directive in the first line and missing
of .SH NAME section.
This installer should also execute mandb to update the database (as
when man -u is issued), as the automatic detection of new manpages
doesn't work in case of multiple pages with the same name in
different sections (#10106). This update should be done in
background after dpkg has finished.
* to fix bug #3766 ("man" acting too smart) I need to take out of the
sources the list of sections, and put it into the configuration
file. This is not trivial, as the list is dinamic, but mandb scans
all the pages in the system to collect descriptions, so I can use
that code to collect the list of sections, order it and write it
somewhere (=/var/cache/man/sections). Then man sources the list.
* I need to add an option to show the order in which sections are
processed while searching for a page. Actually this list is
hardwired in the source code. It should be in the config file AND
dinamically extended by mandb (which finds new sections). Splitting
the config file into a directory would improve this? Yes.
* For bug #11848 I should download glib sources, apply patches and
then look into "locale" source code to see how and from where it
takes the informations printed in line 'ctype-codeset-name' when I
issue the command 'locale -k LC_CTYPE'; then reproduce this inside
man.c and check the result. --ascii option should be assumed for
ISO8859 different from -0, -1, -3, -7, -9 .
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Sun, 7 Mar 1999 19:32:25 +0200
(There has been a parse error in the entry above, if some values don't make sense please check the original changelog)
1998
man-db (2.3.10-69) unstable; urgency=low
* Corrected wrong set of terminal modes even when "not-a-tty".
(thanx to Alessandro Rubini for the report)
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 01:01:54 +0200
man-db (2.3.10-68) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed correction of return code, which made man ignore symlinks.
(closes: #26351 thanx to Branden Robinson <branden@purdue.edu> )
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Tue, 6 Oct 1998 17:49:28 +0300
man-db (2.3.10-67) unstable; urgency=low
* Corrected messaging for dangling symlink; also added correct
handling of return codes, so now there will be only one warning line
for each dangling symlink. (Thanx to Joey Hess, closes: #26141)
* Added forcing of umask to avoid uncorrect settings of catdirs.
* Added code to check for each single subcatdir, but, due to major
load, conditioned code only to mandb. That is to say that catdirs
are automagically created only by mandb.
* Removed "access" check in mandb which use the real user, making the
setuid binary a non-sense.
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 16:32:30 +0300
man-db (2.3.10-66) unstable; urgency=low
* added change of ownership in creating new catman hierarchy when done
by root. Thanks to Alexis Huxley for the detailed report.
(closes: #24691, #25825, #26002)
* corrected typo in mandb(8), tx to Richard Braakman, closes: #24296
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Fri, 15 May 1998 23:20:47 +0300
man-db (2.3.10-65) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* added correction to spanish translations supplied by Santiago Vila.
(closes: #21240)
* Added a check for the availability of the executable "mail" otherway the
postinst could fail.
* Modifyed the check for update-menus to be on a single line for lintian,
and to have safe exit point for failure of test.
* Cleaned cron.weekly from call to the no-more existent utility mkcatdirs,
whose presence make people (actually me, which is even worse) think that
catpages were purged weekly, which is no more the case since 2.3.10-60
Also lowered (from 7 to 6) the days of non-access to purge catpages,
because the weekly access for rebuilding the database would always keep
the atime lower than 7. (Thanx to Nicolás Lichtmaier for having tampered
me untill I noticed that :-)
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Tue, 7 Apr 1998 23:27:32 +0300
man-db (2.3.10-64) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* corrected bug in zsoelim.l that made it segfault (closes: #19746). solved also another bug which didn't make it uncompress files. * corrected typo in menu entry (closes: #20169) * corrected linkage of zsoelin which included -ldb2 (unused). * added Tom Christiansen's example of manpage. * added corrections to spanish message catalog (Nicolás Lichtmaier and Luis Francisco Gonzalez). * corrected propagation of option -L in whatis/apropos.
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 1998 19:10:58 +0200
man-db (2.3.10-63) unstable; urgency=low
* changed i18n from catgen to gettext; I updated all po files, but
there are some entries empty.
* problems with i18n: added explicit check of environment instead of
trusting setlocale(); now man works with translated manpages.
* moved umask 022 from the shell command to the open of the temporary
file, to avoid errors in case of restrictive settings, due to the
open call added in -60
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Sun, 1 Mar 1998 23:20:41 +0200
man-db (2.3.10-62) unstable; urgency=low
* added check in configure that bsdmainutils is installed, so check
for col won't fail. closes: #18661, #18665. We absolutely need
source-depends, otherways autobuild won't work.
Version for libc5 was correctly built, so -59bo61 is OK.
* oops, wrong put of update-alternatives in postrm instead than prerm.
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 1998 10:42:04 +0200
man-db (2.3.10-61) unstable; urgency=low
* man-db (2.3.10-61) unstable; urgency=low
* man-db (2.3.10-59bo61) bo-unstable; urgency=low
* Changed test in configure to fail if executed without a pager on a
Debian system.
* To avoid the error "pager: No such file" when a newer man is used
without upgrading any of the pagers in the system, I have added a
bogus pager "/usr/sbin/man-pager", which points to /bin/more,
installed through update-alternatives with a weight very light (1).
Probably the Right-Thing-To-Do (TM) is to add a VP "pager" and ask
all pager installing /usr/bin/pager to Provide: it (at least
util-linux). Later man-db could Depends: on it :-)
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 1998 12:15:33 +0200
1997
man-db (2.3.10-60) unstable; urgency=low
* man-db (2.3.10-60) unstable; urgency=low
* man-db (2.3.10-59bo60) bo-unstable; urgency=low
* created a new manpage for accessdb utility (lintian will be happy).
* slightly modifyed manpath(1) manpage to reflect changes in manpath
behaviour (back in version 2.3.10-39, #10039) about search for man
hierarchy in the current directory. Udated english, italian and
spanish pages; german ones are very old and need a complete reread.
* added (in src/manp.c) creation of catman hierarchies -on-the-fly-,
thus obsoleting all those scripts like mkcatdirs, and also modifying
pre,post scripts. (closes: #15518, #14449);
* added checks in configure.in to determine if run on a debian system,
defining DEBIAN, DEBVER, DEBMAINT and putting them in config.h ;
removed old way to insert debian version number in the program.
* cleaned cron files (closes: #14810, #18208).
* (lintian): updated the debian/copyright file for FSF address;
deleted copyright of gencat utility (no more in binary).
* added a safer open for temp file in create_ztemp(), closes: #16371
* corrected menu file, (closes: #17352).
* added local date support for translated manpages into configure.in
and in the manpages (idea by Luis Francisco Gonzalez).
* added spanish manpages and catalogs
(thanx to Luis Francisco Gonzalez <luisgh@cogs.susx.ac.uk>,
Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@noah.dfis.ull.es>
and Cesar BALLARDINI <cballard@santafe.com.ar> ).
* build linking to libdb2
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Tue, 30 Dec 1997 17:13:09 +0200
man-db (2.3.10-57) unstable; urgency=high
* (ver -57) => libc6 version, linked using libdb.a in libc6 and explicit -lc
man-db (2.3.10-57) unstable; urgency=high
* (ver -47) => still libc5 compiled under debian-1.3.1 ( =>experimental)
man-db (2.3.10-47) experimental; urgency=low
* changed Standards-version to 2.3.0.1
* un-debstd-ized rules, postinst and postrm.
* Moved suidmanager call _before_ mandb run (should fix #14996),
but debstd still add his stuff at the end: need to stop it.
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 20:52:44 +0200
man-db (2.3.10-56) unstable; urgency=high
* (ver -56) => libc6 version, linked using libdb1 in libc6 and explicit -lc
man-db (2.3.10-56) unstable; urgency=high
* (ver -46) => still libc5 compiled under debian-1.3.1 ( =>experimental)
man-db (2.3.10-46b) experimental; urgency=low
* found __big__ problem in libc6-dev that installs db1.85 with
soname 2, while old libdb1-dev package (from bo) is linked
with libc5 ... need to link statically to libdb.a to avoid
future problems when _true_ db2 will be installed.
* oops, in 55 (libc6) pager was left undefined (#14862, sigh)
* oops, missing accessdb as promised :-)
* changed tests on closed streams to detect more conditions.
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Sun, 16 Nov 1997 01:31:44 +0200
man-db (2.3.10-55) unstable; urgency=low
* (ver -55) => libc6 version, linked using libdb1 in libc6 and explicit -lc
man-db (2.3.10-55) unstable; urgency=low
* (ver -45) => still libc5 compiled under debian-1.3.1 ( =>experimental)
man-db (2.3.10-45) experimental; urgency=low
* Added check of libdb (1 or 2) in configure.in with set of BTREE
to 1 or 2, changes in CFLAGS. Conditioned inclusion of db/db.h or
db_185.h to value in BTREE.
* Added open of stdin/stdout/stderr in man.c in case someone like
"info" closed them before exec-ing man. This corrupted the
database files, and later segfault in the db library.
(fixes bug#11278, #11469, #11471, #14181)
* Added /opt hierarchy in src/man_db.config (etc/manpath.config)
* Added tool accessdb in /usr/bin . No manual page (yet).
* Added option -S (safety mode) to pic in configure.in
* Changed default pager from more to "pager" in configure.in
(fixes#14254, thanks to Scott K. Ellis)
* Added resetting of pristine terminal setting when exiting
(#14174, thanks to Herbert Xu)
* Corrected error in the changelog for version 52, 53, 54
about linking against libdb2 (it was libdb from glibc2).
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Thu, 30 Oct 1997 00:24:55 +0200
man-db (2.3.10-44) experimental; urgency=low
* (ver -54) => libc6 version, linked using libdb2 and explicit -lc
man-db (2.3.10-54) unstable; urgency=low
* (ver -44) => still libc5 compiled under debian-1.3.1 ( =>experimental)
man-db (2.3.10-44) experimental; urgency=low
* avoided bashism in debian/rules.
* deleted bogus files with spaces embedded in name (#13888)
* applied patch for alpha by <chris@beezer.med.miami.edu> #13851
* zsoelim.l - added new start condition to avoid expansion of .so
requests inside a macro definition. (fixes #2969 and #13812)
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 1997 11:00:53 +0300
man-db (2.3.10-53) unstable; urgency=low
* (ver -53) => libc6 version, linked using libdb2 and explicit -lc
man-db (2.3.10-53) unstable; urgency=low
* (ver -43) => still libc5 compiled under debian-1.3.1 ( =>experimental)
man-db (2.3.10-43) experimental; urgency=low
* added quote around var in mkcatdirs (fixes #13738, tx M.Konarski)
* added removal of tempfiles from handler for SIGINT
(fixes bug#13352 Thanks to John Goerzen)
* changed way to call groff adding -P-g so grops can guess a page size
(fixes #13563 uncorrectly assigned to groff, thx John Kallal)
* solved deletion of entries in index when skipping their display (#10483)
* wiped wrong message displayed when skipping display of manpage.
* avoided redundant searches for section names longer than one char.
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 10:52:03 +0300
man-db (2.3.10-42) experimental; urgency=low
* (ver -52) => libc6 version, linked using libdb2 and explicit -lc (#11706)
* (ver -42) => still libc5 compiled under debian-1.3.1 ( =>experimental)
* Added removal of tempfiles via atexit().
* restored original order in search sections (3 before 2) changed by
previous maintainer (don't know why) (#12192 thx Juan Cespedes)
* redirecting unusefull error messages in postrm and preinst (#12224)
* doesn't provide gencat anymore, but can't use libc6's gencat. (#9841)
* Changed tests in postinst to work with ash (#12212 thx Herbert Xu)
* Changed define of debian version for use in non-debian systems
(thanx to Albert Chin-A-Young); added file include/version.h
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Mon, 18 Aug 1997 10:26:10 +0300
man-db (2.3.10-41) unstable; urgency=high
* oops, -40 was linked against libgdbm1. (need a symlink db.h ->db/db.h
* rebuild using (and dependent from) libdb1_1.85.4-4 with security
fix. This shouldn't make any difference (man.db doesn't use snprintf)
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 1997 15:16:59 +0300
man-db (2.3.10-40) unstable; urgency=low
* Still libc5 version.
* (Italian version) Minori correzioni a mandb.m da parte di Borto.
* several corrections to it's => its typos in manpages [man(1), manpath(1),
zsoelim(1), mandb(8)] Fixes Bug#11440 thanx to David Damerell.
* Restore correct NAMN swedish parse for whatis (bug introduced by me
fixing #6497 on version -34) Thanx to John F. Bunch. (fixes bug#12069)
* Fixed segfault using an empty arg to -S option (Bug#12074, Thx Herbert Thielen)
* Fixed wrong manpath behaviour (Bug#10377, Thanx to Michael Lachmann)
* reduced output in postinst (Bug#11902).
* included execution of chmanconfig (which adds MANDB_MAP lines for lang
manpages) inside mkcatdirs (which creates catdir hierarchies).
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Thu, 14 Aug 1997 13:16:43 +0300
man-db (2.3.10-39) unstable; urgency=low
* added debian version info to option -V
* corrected a couple of italian messages that didn't work (Grazie Borto)
* added nlsutils in Replaces: field of control file (fixes Bug#9943)
* Ugly typo in debian/rules that made .dwww-index disappear from last
version (-38): my fault! (sigh) (autoBug#10130)
* dropped scan of current directory if explicitly present in PATH both
as an empty entry or an explicit dot; this used to left index files
here and there. (fixes Bug#10039, thanks to Giuliano Procida)
* allowed non "man" dirs if in manpath.config
(now accepts manpages hierarchies like /usr/share/ucbman)
fixes Bug#9947, thanks to Richard Kettlewell.
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Thu, 22 May 1997 13:04:48 +0300
man-db (2.3.10-38) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Added test -x of commands in cron.weekly (#9973), Nicolas Lichtmaier * Broken link from dwww index, thanx to David ROCHER (fixes #9792) * Corrected broken links from toc in html manual (bug#8950bis & #9725) * Added /usr/doc/man-db/Changelog.gz, NEWS, ToDo (closes bug#7506)
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Mon, 28 Apr 1997 12:28:33 +0300
man-db (2.3.10-37) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Added nice to postinst index rebuild (bug#8946)
* Bug#8950: MANOPT parsing error corrected (Thanx to Ricardas Cepas)
* Bug#8950: Changed again way to determine section names: hardcoded
into manconfig.h.in , need policy to update with new ones.
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Tue, 22 Apr 1997 15:09:22 +0300
man-db (2.3.10-36) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Discovered and corrected a more serious bug in debian/rules in a
rm statement line (this is the reason for going into frozen).
* Changed clean rule in debian/rules to handle cases in which the
GNUmakefile or the build markfile are missing, (bug#8822)
thanks to Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@lot49.med.miami.edu>
* Allowed undocumented option -X to be passed to groff.
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:05:53 +0300
man-db (2.3.10-35) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* also added copyright notice for gencat program to Copyright file.
* added gencat binary (fixed error in Makefile, thanks to Christian
Hudon <chudon@ee.mcgill.ca>)
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 1997 08:08:43 +0300
man-db (2.3.10-34) unstable; urgency=low
* added revision March 97 of Italian manpages.
* Patched lexgrog.l to recognise NAME saction in other languages:
NAME, NOME, NOM, NOMBRE, BEZEICHNUNG. (Bug#6497, Herbert Thielen)
* added flag -f to gzip to avoid failing of mandb on badly named files.
* Fixed bug#8357 adding missing newline in the message
"What manual page do you want?\n" (Thanx to Herbert Xu)
* added in debian/rules command to clean index.bt built in man dir
* Applied patch to process NAME section containing .IX (perl pod)
thanx to Craig Wiegert <cwiegert@midway.uchicago.edu> (#8249)
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Tue, 1 Apr 1997 10:11:16 +0300
man-db (2.3.10-33) unstable; urgency=low
* This will replace man package in Debian 1.3
* Corrected typo in control file
* Added dwww index entry
* Added html version of manual (from .me via unroff + manual edit :-( )
* Moved dependency on bsdmainutils from Depends to Suggests.
* Removed failure of installation if removal of catpages failed.
* Added italian manpages and message catalogs
(Thanx to Giovanni Bortolozzo <borto@dei.unipd.it>)
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 1997 17:47:13 +0200
man-db (2.3.10-32) unstable; urgency=high
* Due to paranoia version -31 doesn't upgrade from -30 (Oops)
* in chmanconfig remove old lines instead that commenting them out.
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Wed, 26 Feb 1997 18:31:45 +0200
man-db (2.3.10-31) unstable; urgency=low
* Corrected location of message catalogs (#7491, thanx Scott K.Ellis)
from /usr/lib/locale to /usr/share/locale .
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Thu, 20 Feb 1997 02:17:37 +0200
man-db (2.3.10-30) unstable; urgency=low
* Installed german manpages and message catalogs.
* In postinst added search for languages installed to build catmans
also for them.
* Added /usr/sbin/chmanconfig, a perl script that updates
/etc/manpath.conf for the listed language, and calls mkcatdirs to
update the catdir hierarchy.
This is to be used by packages that install translated manpages.
* Closes Bug#5977: (strange bug in man causes magically unpredictable
manpage ?) due to change in database library and my inability to
reproduce this behaviour.
* Changed output of these messages from stdout to stderr (#4207):
"What manual page do you want from section ?";
"What manual page do you want?";
"No source manual entry for ";
"No manual entry for ";
* added in cron.weekly the update of catdirs hierarchy and forced
complete rebuild of indexes (instead of simple update)
* Installs tools/mkcatdirs in /usr/sbin ; this script can be used
(and is used in postinst) to build the catman hierarchy
that now is made on the fly instead than burn in the package.
Modifyed to make also main catdirs (not only subdirs)
* preinst and postrm both remove the whole catman hierarchy.
* postinst builds the catman hierarchy using mkcatdirs or a basic
set of dirs predefined, and then builds the index databases.
* Provides: man, man-browser. Conflicts: man. Replaces: man.
These should remove the old man package as well as the man-aeb.
* Compiled using option nls=all (all locales).
* Linked against libdb1 (Berkeley) instead of gdbm.
* Compiled using libc5 5.4.20
* Changed name from man to man-db, to follow upstream (man_db)
this also fixes bug #4885 (/usr/doc/man gets man itself confused)
* Added man_db-manual-0.5.cat (which was distributed separetely) as
/usr/doc/man-db-manual.txt
* Rebuilt using debmake (Standards-Version: 2.1.2.2) resulting in a
smaller debian/rules file (but not more explicative).
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Wed, 5 Feb 1997 20:01:49 +0200
man (2.3.10-18) stable unstable; urgency=low
* changed the way 'man 9term' problem is handled (bug#5345) fixed
badly in 2.3.10-16 (oops)
* removed subdirectory debian/new that caused dpkg-source to fail :-(
* Added check in preinst to warn only changing owner of catman dirs
(fixes #7035 thanx to Santiago Vila Doncel and Kai Henningsen)
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Thu, 13 Feb 1997 12:30:12 +0200
man (2.3.10-17) stable unstable; urgency=low
* fixed bug#6496: man's cron scripts should be conffiles (oops :-)
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jan 1997 00:48:33 +0200
1996
man (2.3.10-16) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* fixed bug#????: man segfaults when MANPATH="" (null string)
changed to consider null string as var unset.
* fixed bug#5833: MANPATH="" manpath -g: wrong warning.
* fixed bug#5345: man 9term problem (coded Debian's policy for
sections = only one digit)
* fixed bug#5809: mandb -c fails on dangling symlink in cat (added
code to detect dangled symlinks in stray cats) Thanx H.Thielen.
* fixed bug#4372 NULL pointer dereference (Thanx Ray).
* warning message for the absence of whatis fallback database
downgraded to debug info because gdbm is used in this version.
* setlocale continues not to work :-(
* compiled using libc5 5.4.13-1
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Fri, 6 Dec 1996 04:05:59 +0200
man (2.3.10-15) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* fixed bug#5534 (man fails if env var SYSTEM is defined)
* compiled using libc5 5.4.7-7
* due to a bug in libc5 5.4.7-7 setlocale doesn't work.
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 00:04:12 +0200
man (2.3.10-14) frozen; urgency=high
* changed wrong owner of catman dirs (bug #5340)
* added code in preinst to detect catman's wrong owner (bug #5340)
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Sat, 9 Nov 1996 21:37:48 +0200
man (2.3.10-13.1) unstable; urgency=low
* compressed manpages.
* removed obsolete catman directories X386 and X11R5 (#3939)
* added conffiles to debian structure (#4671)
* built using original upstream sources + patch 2.3.10-13
* Updated to Standards-Version 2.1.1.0
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Wed, 30 Oct 1996 20:02:31 +0200
Old changelog format(s), not parsed
Changes:
Sun Jul 7 21:46:09 BST 1996 Alvar Bray <alvar@debian.org>
* Modified to build on different architectures
* 2.3.10-12 -> 2.3.10-13
Mon Jun 10 23:38:11 BST 1996 Alvar Bray <alvar@debian.org>
* Added dependency on bsdmailutils so col is present
* Modified makefiles to new dchanges format
* Set priority to be routine the same as manpages pkg.
* 2.3.10-11 -> 2.3.10-12
Sun Mar 31 14:45:48 BST 1996 Alvar Bray <alvar@debian.org>
* Added fix to ult_src.c from _Mark_ <eichin@cygnus.com>
* 2.3.10-10 -> 2.3.10-11
Tue Mar 5 12:18:32 GMT 1996 Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
* Removed echo in cron.weekly
* 2.3.10-9 -> 2.3.10-10
Sun Feb 18 14:25:45 GMT 1996 Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
* Changed to invoke groff with latin1 device.
* 2.3.10-8 -> 2.3.10-9
Sat Feb 17 16:13:07 GMT 1996 Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
* Added H J Lu bugfix provided by Michael Meskes
* Changed cron job regexp to catch all .gz files
* Changed to use nice in cron jobs
Thu Jan 11 20:51:01 GMT 1996 Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
* Rebuilt using dynamic linking
2.3.10-7 -> 2.3.10-8
Tue Jan 9 20:46:44 GMT 1996 Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
* Added interpreter lines (#!/bin/sh) to cron job files.
(#2106).
* Changed find time args (#2057) in cron.daily.
* 2.3.10-6 -> 2.3.10-7 (fixes dpkg dependency problem
from libgdbm1.)
Sat Dec 16 21:06:56 GMT 1995 Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
* changed dependency libgdbm to libgdbm1
Rebuilt against libgdbm1 packages
2.3.10-5 -> 2.3.10-6
Wed Nov 29 22:28:19 GMT 1995 Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
* changed dependency elf-libgdbm to libgdbm
2.3.10-4 -> 2.3.10-5
Mon Nov 27 20:37:47 GMT 1995 Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
* added dependency on elf-libgdbm
2.3.10-3 -> 2.3.10-4
Wed Nov 22 17:30:49 GMT 1995 Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
* Compiled for elf - added dependency on lib5c
2.3.10-2 -> 2.3.10-3
20-September-1995 Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
Patched src/util.c to fix bug#1290 (improved testing to decide if
catman page need rebuilding from src man page)
2.3.10-1 -> 2.3.10-2
20-August-1995 Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
Upgraded package to the latest 2official" release.
2.3.7 -> 2.3.10-1
24-July-1995 Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
Setup to use more as the default pager.
03-July-1995 Alvar Bray <alvar@meiko.co.uk>
Change of Maintainer.
Added Extended description.
24-December-1994 Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
Added Debian GNU/Linux package maintenance system files and configure
for Debian.