man-1.6e - 'Dracula'
- Sections used by makewhatis set via environment variable MANSECT, falling
back to man.conf's MANSECT setting as man does (Mike Frysinger).
- Removed use of implicit prototypes - besides being sloppy, it leads to issues
on 64 bit platforms (Mike frysinger, flc).
- Building will now honor pre-existing LDFLAGS if set (Mike Frysinger).
- Updated Italian man pages (Giulio DaprelA!).
- Updated Spanish man pages (B. AlbiA¡Þana, flc).
- Corrected a minor bug in makewhatis' tempdir generation (flc).
- EXPERIMENTAL: support for Plan 9 rc shell lists (Michael Haardt).
- Overdue LSM v4 format compliance (flc).
- Minor corrections and cleanup (flc).
man-1.6d
- Fixed freeing of unallocated memory in '-K' under unsafe flag (flc).
- Corrected a bug introduced in 1.6c makewhatis - thanks to the packagers
that promptly pointed it out (flc).
- corrected off-by-one in LANG splitting code (no security aspect) (flc).
- added support for DESTDIR in man2html's Makefile (Claudio Fontana).
- Fixed -D option (flc).
- Header fix for variable header location of TIOCGWINSZ (Eugene Kotlyarov).
- Corrected erroneous encoding of FR locale man pages translation (flc).
- EXEEXT and DESTDIR fixes for gencat (Volker Zell).
- Minor correction of CYGWIN support (Volker Zell).
- Updated Polish message catalog and select man pages (M. Garski).
- Minor corrections to man pages, and the German message catalog
(flc, Volker Zell, others).
- Constricted locale settings for gencat (Fedora Project).
- Corrections to makewhatis exit codes and signal handling (flc).
- Fixes in man2html parsing (Fedora Project).
- Minor additional corrections (flc).
man-1.6c
- Corrected missing format string, but no privilege escalation was involved
(flc, Ville-SkyttA?).
- pscan format string audit run - nothing further found (flc).
- Updated Bulgarian locale man pages translation and message catalog
(Alexander Shopov).
- makewhatis and other minor changes to support BG locale
(Alexander Shopov, flc).
- Updated Italian locale message catalog translation (flc).
- Updated French man pages, with new man2html page (Alain Portal).
man-1.6b
- Additional changes for parallel Make (Octavio Ruiz).
- New French locale man pages translation (Alain Portal).
- New French locale message catalog translation (Alain Portal).
- Minor changes in manual pages (Giorgos Keramidas, flc).
- Minor corrections in the docs (flc).
man-1.6a
- Fixes to support parallel Make (Mike Frysinger).
- Fixes in mess.en message catalog (Martin von Gagern).
- Corrections and updates to the manual (flc).
man-1.6
- New Maintainer Federico Lucifredi (flucifredi@acm.org).
- Ability to hand HTML man pages off to a browser added (Eric S. Raymond).
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This is the version of man written by John Eaton and maintained by
Andries Brouwer.
This man package provides a man pager that supports compressed
pages, locales and message catalogs. It also includes makewhatis
for creating the whatis database, apropos and whatis for searching
the whatis database, man2dvi for formating manpages to DVI, and
man2html for converting manpages to HTML.
This package does not include the CGI scripts nor hman utility
for web-based manpage viewing.
