man-db 2.11.1-1 source package in Ubuntu
Changelog
man-db (2.11.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* debian/upstream/metadata: Update upstream Git URL.
* debian/control: Update Homepage URL.
* debian/copyright: Update Source URL.
* New upstream release:
- SECURITY: Replace "$" characters in page names with "?" when
constructing "less" prompts (closes: #1021951).
- Silence error message when processing an empty manual page hierarchy
with a nonexistent cache directory (closes: #762335).
- man(1) now sorts whatis references below real pages, even if the
whatis references are from a section with higher priority (closes:
#780235).
- Add section "3type" to the default section list just after "2". This
is used by the Linux man-pages package.
-- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:14:06 +0000
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| man-db_2.11.1-1.dsc | 2.4 KiB | 4ee1e5fd9fa44e767df7e8f5331878034ff8fc8ce18b5c39f889e0d8fefc63b0 |
| man-db_2.11.1.orig.tar.xz | 1.9 MiB | 2eabaa5251349847de9c9e43c634d986cbcc6f87642d1d9cb8608ec18487b6cc |
| man-db_2.11.1.orig.tar.xz.asc | 833 bytes | 52d06ba9bdaca2962750564316c487f1add8356e7028e088a28e645bf9efa9ef |
| man-db_2.11.1-1.debian.tar.xz | 71.9 KiB | 0a66fd1a8bca9f15aaa69b2460c3ab9756b233a0b179f7e8c28f58ecb58b88b6 |
Available diffs
- diff from 2.10.2-2 to 2.11.1-1 (565.9 KiB)
- diff from 2.11.0-1 to 2.11.1-1 (156.4 KiB)
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Binary packages built by this source
- man-db: tools for reading manual pages
This package provides the man command, the primary way of examining the
system 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. man-db uses the groff
suite of programs to format and display the manual pages.
- man-db-dbgsym: debug symbols for man-db
