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48. By Colin Watson on 2014-04-10

* Add OpenPGP signature checking configuration to watch file.
* New upstream release.

47. By Colin Watson on 2014-01-23

* New upstream release:
  - Reimplement 'apropos --and' in a way that works with the optimisations
    introduced in 2.6.2 (closes: #678670).
  - Clarify that whatis displays one-line descriptions, rather than e.g.
    the contents of DESCRIPTION sections (closes: #713992).
  - Downgrade EAGAIN/EWOULDBLOCK errors from attempts to open a database
    read-write to debug messages (closes: #684235).
* Switch to git (thanks to reposurgeon for helping with the tricky
  stitching involved); adjust Vcs-* fields.
* Policy version 3.9.5: no changes required.
* Set VERBOSE=1 when running tests so that Automake will print test logs
  on failure.

46. By Colin Watson on 2014-01-03

* Drop obsolete dpkg version check in cron jobs; the version in question
  predates oldstable, and man-db pre-depends on a newer version anyway
  (closes: #731687).
* Silence errors caused by cron.daily racing with mandb (closes: #734063).

45. By Colin Watson on 2013-06-28

* Backport from trunk:
  - Attempt fallback locales even if /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED exists.
    (It may exist but none of the UTF-8 locales mentioned it in may be
    present; nevertheless, C.UTF-8 may be available.)

44. By Colin Watson on 2013-06-27

* New upstream release:
  - man's --warnings option works again on systems with versions of groff
    that support it (broken in 2.6.4). This broke Lintian's test suite.

43. By Colin Watson on 2013-06-24

* New upstream release:
  - Document default section list in manual pages (closes: #611007).
  - Quieten most warnings from compiling Gnulib (closes: #668429).
  - The MANLESS environment variable is now treated as if it were a
    default value for the -r option to man: occurrences of the text
    "$MAN_PN" are expanded, and explicitly using the -r option overrides
    the default (closes: #690831).
* Use 'set -e' rather than '#! /bin/sh -e' in maintainer scripts.
* Remove maintainer script support for direct upgrades from pre-etch
  (three releases before current stable).
* Breaks/Replaces manpages-zh (<< 1.5.2-1.1); man-db now ships zh_CN
  translations formerly included there.

42. By Colin Watson on 2013-06-03

* Build-depend on debhelper (>= 9~) directly rather than requiring a
  Lintian override for use of 8.9.0.
* Temporarily drop -Werror from AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE options and backport
  patches to handle the Automake parallel test harness, working around
  warnings caused by the version of Gnulib currently in use here (closes:
  #710309).

41. By Colin Watson on 2013-05-07

Switch triggers to interest-noawait, since they are non-essential for
the triggering packages (closes: #707129).

40. By Colin Watson on 2013-05-07

Fix trigger handling following cleanup of postinst output.

39. By Colin Watson on 2013-05-07

* Make postinst output clearer about whether the database is being rebuilt
  (e.g. due to man-db/auto-update=false).
* Drop handling of option string escaping in less 456, since the
  incompatible change has been reverted upstream (thanks, Geoffrey Thomas;
  closes: #706916). I've chosen to drop the Breaks entirely as it's a bit
  too heavyweight for a relatively minor display bug.