On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 23:32:52 +0200 Andreas Radke <[email protected]> wrote:
> - upstream man-pages update; drop man0p/man1p/man3p directories from > posix pages; posix pages get moved now into man0/man1/man3 > > - upstream update man-db 2.5.5, see changes below, added post release > upstream change to support man0 section for posix pages > > fixes http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13734 (requires users to adopt > the change in /etc/man_db.conf) > > please signoff > > -Andy > > man-db 2.5.5 changes: > > I've released man-db 2.5.5. > > Description > ----------- > > man-db contains an implementation of the man command, which is the > primary way of examining the on-line help files (manual pages). Other > utilities provided include the whatis and apropos commands for > searching the manual page database, the manpath utility for > determining the manual page search path, and the maintenance > utilities mandb, catman and zsoelim. The package requires a troff > installation, such as groff (GNU troff) to format and display the > manual pages. > > About this release > ------------------ > > This is a quick bug-fix release to correct handling of non-default > encodings specified in manual pages' preprocessor lines, and to > correct an uninitialised variable noticed by Dustin Marquess that > could lead to excessive memory allocation and possible crashes. > Changes relative to 2.5.4 are otherwise minimal. Signoff x86_64. Daniel
