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38. By Colin Watson on 2012-12-16

* Support parallel builds.
* Handle incompatible change to option string escaping in less 456
  (closes: #695459).

37. By Colin Watson on 2012-11-22

* Use xz compression for binary packages.
* Use dh-autoreconf.
* Link with -Wl,--enable-new-dtags, so that LD_LIBRARY_PATH can be used to
  override our private library directory.

36. By Colin Watson on 2012-09-18

* New upstream release.
* Build with V=1 so that tools such as blhc can scan more effectively for
  missing build flags.

35. By Colin Watson on 2012-06-18

* New upstream release:
  - Optimise apropos when given many arguments (LP: #927028).
  - apropos prints an error message and returns non-zero when it finds no
    matches (closes: #672661).
  - Avoid fatal errors when opening a 64-bit GDBM database from a 32-bit
    process (LP: #1001189).
* Configure with --with-xz=xz --with-lzip=lzip.
* Adjust debian/watch to track .tar.xz releases.
* Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0.
* Override hardening-no-fortify-functions Lintian warning for
  /usr/bin/manpath, as a false positive.

34. By Colin Watson on 2012-03-31

Remove unused build-dependency on gettext again.

33. By Colin Watson on 2012-02-14

* 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 on 2011-11-09

* 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 on 2011-07-23

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

30. By Colin Watson on 2011-04-13

* 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 on 2011-04-10

* 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.