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31. By Colin Watson on 2014-12-31

Drop real IDs before effective IDs, for non-Linux compatibility (closes:
#772597).

30. By Colin Watson on 2014-11-07

* New upstream release:
  - Make man run correctly from a deleted directory (closes: #764384).
  - Send 'man -a' prompts to /dev/tty (closes: #766113).

29. By Colin Watson on 2011-01-03

* Use 'dh $@ --options' rather than 'dh --options $@', for
  forward-compatibility with debhelper v8.
* Avoid assertion if no path elements with manpaths were found (closes:
  #608490).

28. By Colin Watson on 2010-11-18

Fix build with 'ld --no-copy-dt-needed-entries'.

27. By Colin Watson on 2010-11-17

* New upstream release:
  - Fix test failures on some systems. A change made in 2.5.8 was overly
    sensitive to directory ordering.

26. By Colin Watson on 2010-11-16

Build-depend on pkg-config.

25. By Colin Watson on 2010-11-16

* New upstream release:
  - Explicitly set groff's hyphenation language, to ensure that it only
    hyphenates languages it knows about (closes: #570247).
  - Add support for XZ-compressed manual pages, thanks to Darren Salt
    (closes: #572233).
  - Try underscore-separated subpages as well as hyphen-separated ones,
    thanks to Tanguy Ortolo (closes: #574641).
  - Build libman and libmandb as shared libraries, considerably reducing
    executable size.
  - 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.
  - In catman mode, never try to guess whether a page argument is a
    section, as it's too easy to get this wrong (LP: #664211).
  - mandb should no longer repeatedly rescan manual page hierarchies when
    a whatis entry turns into a broken link.
* Use a separate build directory, eliminating the requirement to preserve
  some files by hand.
* Build with external libpipeline.

24. By Colin Watson on 2010-10-14

Move po/fr.gmo aside during build so that it gets regenerated based on
translation-fr.patch, and build-depend directly on gettext for this
(closes: #598066).

23. By Colin Watson on 2010-08-17

* Backport from trunk:
  - Fix a regression introduced in 2.5.7 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
    (closes: #593350, LP: #615045).

22. By Colin Watson on 2010-04-28

* Remove unused build-dependency on gettext.
* Check for VxID as well as envID in /proc/self/status (closes: #579551).