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36. By Colin Watson

Cache the value of man-db/auto-update in the file system, so that we
don't have to talk to debconf when processing triggers (LP: #1372673).

35. By Colin Watson

* Avoid fatal errors when opening a 64-bit GDBM database from a 32-bit
  process (LP: #1001189).
* Link with -Wl,--enable-new-dtags, so that LD_LIBRARY_PATH can be used to
  override our private library directory. (This fixes a build failure
  when attempting to build the above change.)

34. By Colin Watson

Remove unused build-dependency on gettext again.

33. By Colin Watson

* New upstream release:
  - Translated manual pages are no longer displayed starting with a
    spurious blank line (closes: #628639).
  - Create a cache directory tag, per http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/
    (closes: #637046).
  - Alphabetise "SEE ALSO" references and remove trailing full stops, per
    man-pages(7) (closes: #651482).
  - Update German manual page translations (closes: #494066, #596104,
    #624096).
* Install FAQ.
* Update debian/copyright.

32. By Colin Watson

* Discard stderr from dpkg-query in cron jobs (LP: #783903).
* Make man-db Multi-Arch: foreign.
* Upgrade to debhelper v9 and its new arrangements for honouring
  dpkg-buildflags output.

31. By Colin Watson

* Add debconf translations:
  - Serbian (thanks, Zlatan Todoric; closes: #635062).
  - Serbian (Latin) (thanks, Zlatan Todoric; closes: #635063).

30. By Colin Watson

* New upstream release:
  - Fix a segfault when scanning links to empty pages (closes: #622104).
  - Once we've seen at least one record in a page's NAME section, ignore
    any further records that don't include a whatis description, as they
    tend to be noise.
* Remove unnecessary .la files (closes: #622443).

29. By Colin Watson

* New upstream release, fixing test failures in 2.6.0 (closes: #621867):
  - Ensure that the target of a symlink or .so chain is always recorded as
    a real page.
  - Read a user-specified configuration file even if HOME is unset.

28. By Colin Watson

* New upstream release:
  - Search the full manpath when expanding .so directives in manual pages.
    As part of this, '.so name.1' should now work as well as '.so
    man1/name.1' (closes: #503472, LP: #411534).
  - Handle roff named glyphs and perldoc strings in NAME sections (closes:
    #601025).
  - Don't start a pager if stdout is not a tty.
  - Allow passing multiple sections to whatis and apropos (closes:
    #571285).
  - Provide byte positions in manconv errors (closes: #562789).
  - Make mandb error output neater when stderr is not a tty.
  - Fix failure to display manual pages in some encodings when installed
    setuid.
  - Don't ignore SIGPIPE while forking iconv (closes: #597756).
  - Remove obsolete subdirectories of cat directories (closes: #558804).
  - If mandb sees that A is a symlink to B, it should never store a whatis
    reference for B (closes: #204249).
  - Print commas in roman rather than bold (thanks, David Prévot; closes:
    #600002).
  - Consider .PD requests as paragraph breaks (closes: #611012).
  - Reset SIGPIPE to SIG_DFL on startup, to avoid noisy output in the
    event that mandb was started from a context where SIGPIPE was ignored.
  - SECTION entries in a user configuration file now override those in the
    system configuration file, rather than appending to them.
  - If the user asked for an explicit section, sort exact matches first.
  - Rewrite all remaining subprocess handling in terms of libpipeline,
    especially some crash-prone code in catman (LP: #27738).
  - The default less prompt now includes "(press h for help or q to quit)"
    to help novices find their way around
    (http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/25975).
  - Fix a segfault when 'man -K' tries to display certain pages.
  - Fix a segfault in some situations when processes are killed by SIGHUP,
    SIGINT, or SIGTERM (LP: #218336).
* Avoid unnecessary metadata writes to /var/cache/man when doing recursive
  chown (thanks, Iustin Pop; closes: #619726).

27. By Colin Watson

* Add debconf translations:
  - Slovak (thanks, Slavko; closes: #609347).
* Fix test failure with groff 1.21.
* Upload to unstable.

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