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26. By Colin Watson on 2011-01-03

Avoid assertion if no path elements with manpaths were found (closes:
#608490).

25. By Colin Watson on 2010-12-04

* Backport from 2.5.8:
  - Warnings about unrecognised locales are now suppressed if the
    DPKG_RUNNING_VERSION environment variable is set (i.e. man-db is
    running within a Debian package's maintainer script), since the system
    locales are often out of sync with the C library in that context.
    Thanks to the Debian Perl maintainers for the idea (closes: #605790).

24. By Colin Watson on 2010-10-14

Move po/fr.gmo aside during build so that it gets regenerated based on
translation-fr.patch, and build-depend directly on gettext for this
(closes: #598066).

23. By Colin Watson on 2010-08-17

* Backport from trunk:
  - Fix a regression introduced in 2.5.7 when running catman in some
    locales, most notably in the C locale: while converting the output to
    UTF-8, iconv was run after the compressor rather than before it
    (closes: #593350, LP: #615045).

22. By Colin Watson on 2010-04-28

* Remove unused build-dependency on gettext.
* Check for VxID as well as envID in /proc/self/status (closes: #579551).

21. By Colin Watson on 2010-03-02

* Add a watch file.
* Backport from trunk:
  - Fix assertion failure on 'man -l' with an uncompressed page and
    prefixed input (no-hyphenation, no-justification, or a non-English
    page).

20. By Colin Watson on 2010-02-17

* New upstream release:
  - Make man(1) refer to the "Warnings" node in 'info groff' for a list of
    available warning names (closes: #545805).
  - Don't run tests if cross-compiling.
  - Add option to disable justification (closes: #440047).
  - Do what the user probably means when the full path to an executable is
    given as an argument (closes: #505465).
  - Search man<sec><ext> directories in the GNU layout (closes: #519807).
  - Prefer getting a page from the best manual section over getting a page
    in the correct language; I have my reservations about this, but it
    seems to be what people are requesting (closes: #519547).
  - 'man -f' and 'man -k' now pass through any -s option to apropos/whatis
    respectively.
  - All programs now support a MAN_DEBUG environment variable which can be
    used in place of the -d/--debug option. This is useful in some
    situations where a program is being called deep in a process tree.
  - Fix off-by-one error when write returns EAGAIN (thanks, Samuel
    Thibault; closes: #564818).
  - "%s: nothing appropriate." is an error; write it to stderr, not stdout
    (closes: #565255).
  - Don't bother printing error messages for SIGINT and SIGQUIT, since
    these correspond to explicit user actions (closes: #568000).
  - Fix sense of directory check while decompressing (closes: #537434).
  - Always save cat pages in UTF-8 (closes: #446741).
* Convert to source format 3.0 (quilt).

19. By Colin Watson on 2010-01-01

* Remove Ubuntu buildd hack now that the Ubuntu buildd chroots preseed
  man-db/auto-update=false (thanks, LaMont Jones).
* Backport from trunk:
  - Handle iconv errors when attempting to convert the last input encoding
    to UTF-8 (closes: #562503).
* Unless we're cross-compiling, get dh_installman to use the version of
  man we just built.

18. By Colin Watson on 2009-11-10

* Backport from trunk:
  - If the locale encoding is ASCII, then use the ascii device even if
    preconv is available; it will do a better job than producing UTF-8
    output and then recoding that to ASCII (closes: #547695).
  - Include <unistd.h> in src/encodings.c for dup and STDIN_FILENO
    (closes: #553623).
  - When invoking col, ensure that LC_CTYPE is set to an appropriate
    locale for the selected character set (closes: #555331).
* Add man-db/auto-update debconf template, which may be preseeded to false
  to disable rebuilding the database when man-db is triggered (closes:
  #554914).

17. By Colin Watson on 2009-09-24

* Don't try to change I/O priority in an OpenVZ container (closes:
  #546680). Approach borrowed from virt-what.
* Backport from trunk:
  - When a source pipeline dies, make sure to drain its output before
    discarding its output file descriptor (closes: #548153).