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18. By Colin Watson on 2008-07-08

* Update DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS parsing code from policy 3.8.0.
* Skip building the database on buildds (just Ubuntu buildds for now,
  since Debian buildds aren't detectable; see the comment in the postinst
  for more detail).

17. By Colin Watson on 2008-05-05

* New upstream release.
  - Make /usr/local/share/man mandatory rather than /usr/local/man
    (thanks, Reuben Thomas; closes: #463892).
  - Whatis parsing stops at .ie or .if conditionals (closes: #467444).
  - In the CJK UTF-8 special case, check the canonicalised encoding in
    order that locale specifications such as "zh_CN.utf8" work (closes:
    #467249).
  - Improve 'man -E' to allow overriding the output encoding explicitly,
    rather than implicitly (and unreliably) by changing the *roff device
    (closes: #466396).
  - Don't emit encoding conversion errors in mandb's quiet mode (closes:
    #473862).
  - Clean up some loose ends of Chinese support, adding zh_SG and EUC-TW
    support (thanks, Wu Songhai; closes: #354321).
  - Fix jless support to avoid breaking less (closes: #217519).
* Backport from trunk:
  - #include <string.h> in lib/cleanup.c for memset.

16. By Colin Watson on 2008-04-29

* Add support for dpkg triggers per
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2007/04/msg00076.html. There's no
  versioned dependency on a trigger-supporting version of dpkg since this
  is an optional feature, but now installation of any package including
  manual pages will trigger a database rebuild at the end of the dpkg run
  once the new dpkg is available (closes: #133917, LP: #50110).
* Build-depend on debhelper (>= 5.0.59) for triggers installation in
  dh_installdeb.
* Configuration always needs to be a superset of triggering, so we always
  need to build or update the database on upgrade. After some thought,
  I've decided that we can live with doing this unconditionally in the
  foreground: mandb is faster than it used to be, hardware is faster than
  it used to be, and most builds from scratch will be due to installing
  from scratch when relatively few manual pages are installed. Thus, I've
  ripped out the two debconf questions dealing with this.
* Move doc-base entry to Viewers (from Applications/Viewers).

15. By Colin Watson on 2008-03-12

* Only replace manpages-de (<< 0.5-4), per Daniel Kobras.
* Backport from upstream:
  - 'man -H' (without a browser argument) was completely broken in 2.5.1
    and is now fixed.

14. By Colin Watson on 2008-01-28

Replaces: manpages-de, which provides out-of-date copies of man-db's
manual pages for some reason (closes: #463027).

13. By Colin Watson on 2008-01-28

* New upstream release.
  - Fix a number of problems with the localisation changes in 2.5.0.
    Notably, manual pages are converted to the proper input encoding for
    troff output as well as nroff output, and manconv's encoding fallback
    mechanism should now actually fall back as intended.
  - Add a 'man --recode' option to output a source manual page converted
    to a specified encoding. This is expected to be used by debhelper to
    install UTF-8 manual pages.
  - Fix "occured" typo in mandb(8) (thanks, Alfie Costa; closes: #446044).
  - Allow only alphanumerics and "-_/:.()" in encoding names (closes:
    #446055).
  - Enable localisation in accessdb, globbing, lexgrog, and zsoelim
    (closes: #448395).
  - Allow passing warning options to groff, either using the environment
    variable MANROFFOPT or the new 'man --warnings' option (thanks, Ivan
    Shmakov; closes: #451187).
  - Add 'man -s' as an alias for 'man -S' (closes: #458499).
  - 'man -l' guesses language based on absolute path to provided file,
    rather than relative (closes: #460014).
  - mandb sets the new file's mode to DBMODE in order to try to defend
    against strange problems with databases being left world-unreadable
    (closes: #430800).
  - Don't ignore SIGINT and SIGQUIT just because a decompression process
    is running (closes: #462276).
  - Update Russian translation (closes: #452417).
  - Add Korean support, requiring groff >= 1.18.1.1-16 (LP: #176896).
* Policy version 3.7.3:
  - Move doc-base entry to Applications/Viewers.
* Update debian/copyright. Due to incorporating parts of Gnulib, the
  man-db package as a whole now falls under GPLv3.

12. By Colin Watson on 2007-11-17

* Always pass an appropriate --build= option to configure.
* Add debconf translations:
  - Simplified Chinese (thanks, Ming Hua; closes: #447421).
  - Finnish (thanks, Esko Arajärvi; closes: #448769).
* Update debconf translations:
  - Dutch (thanks, Bart Cornelis; closes: #447719).

11. By Colin Watson on 2007-10-12

* Backport from upstream (closes: #446302):
  - Fix apropos/whatis segfault with explicitly specified locale.

10. By Colin Watson on 2007-05-22

* Backport from upstream (closes: #420843):
  - lib/pipeline.c (pipeline_start): Don't ignore SIGPIPE in subprocesses;
    this has undesirable consequences in some situations.
    (pipeline_wait): Flatten SIGPIPE exit statuses to zero instead.

9. By Colin Watson on 2007-04-08

* Update debconf translations:
  - Catalan (thanks, Jordà Polo; closes: #412304).
* Backport from upstream:
  - src/lexgrog.l: Break whatis definitions at .IP, .HP, .RS, and .RE
    (thanks to Ori Avtalion for the report).