#4541: man-db-2.9.0
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Reporter: bdubbs | Owner: lfs-book
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 9.1
Component: Book | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution:
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Comment (by bdubbs):
man-db 2.9.0 (23 October 2019)
Major changes since man-db 2.8.7:
Fixes:
* man --recode and manconv now adjust encoding declarations on the
first line of their input to refer to the new encoding.
* Fix comparison of candidate manual pages to correctly handle the case
where the language elements are the same and match the locale, but
the territory elements differ.
Improvements:
* Many typographical improvements to man-db's own manual pages.
* Rewrite parts of man(1) to make it a more accessible introduction.
* If run with no arguments or only a section, man now suggests
running "man man".
* man now understands the <page>(<section>) form on its command
line, so for example "man 'chmod(2)'" is now the same as "man 2
chmod". While this requires more quoting, it may also be more
convenient when copying and pasting cross-references to manual
pages.)
* manconv now guesses the input encoding based on the file name if
it is not explicitly specified.
* There is a new "man-recode" program. It fulfils a purpose similar
to "man --recode", but has an interface designed for bulk
conversion and so can be much faster when used on a large number
of pages.
Compatibility notes:
* Remove the ability to undefine COMP_SRC at build-time to disable
reading compressed manual pages. This was always only a
micro-optimisation, and it wasn't worth the extra code complexity.
You can still configure without any compressors (either by not
having them available at build time, or by configuring with
"--with-gzip=" etc.) to achieve much the same practical effect,
although the test suite still requires at least gunzip.
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