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

Daniel Isenmann daniel.isenmann at gmx.de
Thu Apr 9 06:11:29 EDT 2009


On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 23:32:52 +0200
Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> 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.

Signoff x86_64.

Daniel


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