#2797: Man-DB-2.5.9
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Reporter: matt...@… | Owner: lfs-b...@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.8
Component: Book | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Keywords:
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New version. NEWS has this to say:
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man-db 2.5.9 (17 November 2010)
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Major changes since man-db 2.5.8:
Fixes:
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o Fix test failures on some systems. A change made in 2.5.8 was
overly sensitive to directory ordering.
o Configuring with --disable-nls works again.
man-db 2.5.8 (15 November 2010)
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Major changes since man-db 2.5.7:
Fixes:
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o Fix assertion failure on 'man -l' with an uncompressed page and
any of --no-hyphenation, --no-justification, or a non-English
page.
o 2.5.7 introduced a regression when running catman in some
locales,
most notably in the C locale: while converting the output to
UTF-8, iconv was run after the compressor rather than before it.
This release fixes that.
Improvements:
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o Add support for XZ-compressed manual pages, thanks to Darren
Salt.
o Try underscore-separated subpages as well as hyphen-separated
ones, thanks to Tanguy Ortolo.
o Build libman and libmandb as shared libraries, reducing
installed
footprint by about 200K (at least on GNU/Linux).
o libintl is no longer shipped with man-db. If your system does
not
already have GNU libintl installed and you want man-db's
messages
to be translated, then please install GNU libintl separately
(http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/).
o Warnings about unrecognised locales are now suppressed if the
DPKG_RUNNING_VERSION environment variable is set (i.e. man-db is
running within a Debian package's maintainer script), since the
system locales are often out of sync with the C library in that
context. Thanks to the Debian Perl maintainers for the idea.
o Allow building with an external libpipeline
(http://libpipeline.nongnu.org/), which has been split out from
man-db. This is a transitional measure: a future version of
man-db will stop shipping its own copy of libpipeline.
o mandb should no longer repeatedly rescan manual page hierarchies
when a whatis entry turns into a broken link.
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