[arch-dev-public] [signoff] man-pages 3.20 / man-db 2.5.5

[Eduardo Romero]

On Wednesday 08 April 2009 05:32:52 pm Andreas Radke wrote:
> - upstream man-pages update; drop man0p/man1p/man3p directories from
>   posix pages; posix pages get moved now into man0/man1/man3
>
> - upstream update man-db 2.5.5, see changes below, added post release
>   upstream change to support man0 section for posix pages
>
> fixes http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13734 (requires users to adopt the
> change in /etc/man_db.conf)
>
> please signoff
>
> -Andy
>
> man-db 2.5.5 changes:
>
> I've released man-db 2.5.5.
>
> Description
> -----------
>
> man-db contains an implementation of the man command, which is the
> primary way of examining the on-line help files (manual pages). Other
> utilities provided include the whatis and apropos commands for searching
> the manual page database, the manpath utility for determining the manual
> page search path, and the maintenance utilities mandb, catman and
> zsoelim. The package requires a troff installation, such as groff (GNU
> troff) to format and display the manual pages.
>
> About this release
> ------------------
>
> This is a quick bug-fix release to correct handling of non-default
> encodings specified in manual pages' preprocessor lines, and to correct
> an uninitialised variable noticed by Dustin Marquess that could lead to
> excessive memory allocation and possible crashes. Changes relative to
> 2.5.4 are otherwise minimal.
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