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55. By Colin Watson on 2014-12-31

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

54. By Colin Watson on 2014-12-05

Backport Danish and French translation updates from upstream (closes:
#771367).

53. By Colin Watson on 2014-11-03

* Policy version 3.9.6: no changes required.
* Assume that dpkg-statoverride exists and drop the test for an obsolete
  compatibility path.

52. By Colin Watson on 2014-10-10

Remove /var/lib/man-db/auto-update on purge.

51. By Colin Watson on 2014-09-28

* New upstream release:
  - Be more careful to avoid using or double-closing closed database
    handles. Fixes test suite failures on some systems.
  - Patch the fdutimens function imported from Gnulib to work around a
    libc bug in GNU/Hurd.
* Stop removing /usr/bin/man and /usr/bin/mandb on prerm remove, as those
  symlinks are shipped in the package nowadays (thanks, Sven Joachim;
  closes: #762704).

50. By Colin Watson on 2014-09-24

* New upstream release:
  - Fix test suite in the case where the system supports high-precision
    timestamps but the file system containing the build directory does
    not.
* Ensure that /var/cache/man exists when triggered (LP: #1351795).

49. By Colin Watson on 2014-09-22

* New upstream release:
  - Add systemd tmpfiles snippet to clean up old cat files after a week.
  - Run "col -b -p -x" over cat pages if possible before parsing them
    (closes: #751934).
  - Move database mtime out of the database into file metadata, making the
    database reproducible between installations (closes: #760895).
  - Use high-precision timestamps.
  - Order files by first physical extent before reading (closes: #574410).
  - Prioritise COLUMNS above TIOCGWINSZ (LP: #1315282).
  - Formatting improvements to man(1) (closes: #726266).
  - Don't use pointed-to name as title for database-located pages (closes:
    #709405).
  - Move zsoelim to /usr/lib/man-db/.
* Remove unnecessary entries from debian/dirs.
* 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 (closes:
  #579075).
* Add MIME handlers (thanks, Kevin Ryde; closes: #725157).
* Override the long-standing Lintian warning for non-standard-dir-perm on
  /var/cache/man.
* Adjust cron.daily to skip cat file cleanup if running under systemd,
  since the upstream-provided tmpfiles snippet now handles that.
* Rebuild the database on upgrade to this version, since the format has
  changed.

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).