- this is a new upstream release promising to improve groff 1.20.1 support. should also fix paging russian man pages http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7477 - fixed a typo in the install msg We should now be ready to push it to core replacing former "man". If russian encoding is still not perfect we can improve it later (it's currently broken as well). -Andy https://launchpad.net/man-db/main/2.5.4 man-db 2.5.4 This release adds support for regular expression and wildcard searches in man, and for disabling hyphenation; it fixes a few bugs in manual page ordering and fixes lexgrog's parsing to stop on any unrecognised request; and it improves support for the recently-released Groff 1.20. Fixes: ------ o Build fixes for systems without GNU Make, and for systems without gettext; this successfully covers at least FreeBSD. o The distclean target now works if po4a isn't installed. o Exit as soon as possible if database writes return ENOSPC. o lexgrog now stops on any unrecognised roff request, rather than continuing and often littering the database with garbage. o man no longer requires both standard input and standard output to be terminals in order to use the terminal line length. The line length from standard output is preferred if available. o The manpath was built completely wrongly when multiple entries were present in LANGUAGE: duplicates were handled strangely, and languages were effectively iterated in reverse order. It should be rather more sensible now. Improvements: ------------- o The MAN_KEEP_STDERR environment variable can now be used to override man's default of discarding stderr when stdout is a terminal. o Handling of terminal widths for cat pages is now configurable, using the MINCATWIDTH, MAXCATWIDTH, and CATWIDTH configuration file directives. o 'man -a' now detects duplicate manual page candidates more reliably, and sorts them better. o Belarusian, Estonian, Greek, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Romanian, Slovenian, and Ukrainian pages are now supported. o man can now search for pages using regular expressions (with --regex) or shell wildcards (with --wildcard). By default this searches both page names and descriptions, like apropos, but if the --names-only option is used then it searches page names only, like whatis. o man can now tell nroff to disable hyphenation if the --no-hyphenation option is used. o man-db already searched for manual pages in ../man and man directories relative to each $PATH component; it now searches in ../share/man and share/man directories too. o Groff 1.20 was recently released, including the 'preconv' preprocessor. Although man-db has supported preconv to some extent since 2.4.4, man-db's configure now detects its presence and infers that groff supports Unicode input using it; man also now takes slightly better advantage of preconv than before. o Per-locale groff macros are now loaded if possible, allowing us to take advantage of such things as localised versions of predefined strings and language-aware hyphenation. This only works with Groff 1.20.2 or better (not yet released), since earlier versions did not allow us to suppress warnings in the event that the appropriate macro file is not available.