man-1.6c

[gerard@…]

Added

[markh@…]

apparently this release gets rid of the need for the sed we currently use to change gawk-->mawk.. MSB got the change in:

From lfs-dev:

The man package has reached version 1.5j and it seems the maintainer applied my fix to make configure detect mawk which means we can get rid of the sed if we update to man-1.5j.

MSB

[markh@…]

checked and put into book. the sed command is no longer necessary and has been removed from the book at the same time.

[markh@…]

when man-1.5k (or whatever the next version is) comes out, check if we can now pass -confdir=/etc to move the man.conf location properly. (I sent the patch to the maintainer and I believe it's been applied)

[highos@…]

Version increment. A copy was put in LFS FTP conglomeration.

[markh@…]

When the update to man-1.5k is done, the instructions should be changed to:

PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/bin \

./configure -default -confdir=/etc &&

make && make install

i.e. add -confdir=/etc to configure and remove the mv man.conf command.

[tushar@…]

Version Increment. (man-1.5l) ​ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/man/

Could not change URL and Summary above.

[highos@…]

Version increment (1.5l)

[timothy@…]

New man pager patch

[highos@…]

Version increment (1.5m1)

[Matthew Burgess]

version increment (man-1.5m2)

[Matthew Burgess]

Version increment (1.5n)

[jeremy@…]

upgraded in testing and unstable

[jim@…]

Version increment (1.5o)

[jeremy@…]

upgraded to 1.5o in unstable

[Matthew Burgess]

Version increment (1.5o1) - fixes an array overflow in man2html

[jeremy@…]

Upgraded in unstable.

[Matthew Burgess]

Version increment (1.5o2)

[Matthew Burgess]

Version increment (1.5p)

[Matthew Burgess]

The 80 cols patch gets rejected. Looking at the source, it would appear to be fixed upstream now. Therefore I'm removing the patch instructions. If anyone encounters problems, let us know.

[Matthew Burgess]

Fixed in r4513

[steve.crosby@…]

Version increment (1.6), new maintainer, new homepage URL

From the homepage:

In February '05 I replaced Andries Brouwer of Tu/e (Technische Universiteit

Eindhoven) as the mantainer of the man pager package.

Federico Lucifredi - flucifredi@…

HomePage URL: ​http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/

ChangeLog:

• New Maintainer Federico Lucifredi (flucifredi@…).
• Ability to hand HTML man pages off to a browser added (Eric S. Raymond).

[Matthew Burgess]

Version increment (1.6). There's a new maintainer (Federico Lucifredi), so this package has moved to ​http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/ (linked to from ​ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/utils/man/man-1.6-elsewhere).

[alexander@…]

Version increment. Untested, and in fact unused (dropped in favour of man-db) in the UTF-8 related Live CD branches.

[Matthew Burgess]

Version increment (1.6b). CHANGELOG:

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).

[archaic@…]

Is this considered a stable release? I couldn't see anything that stated a development vs. stable version exists, but looking at the changelog I see that bug fixes aren't the only changes in this release. Perhaps this is the development version?

I have emailed the new maintainer to get his take on it.

[archaic@…]

Archiving this email response: ================================= From: Federico Lucifredi <address-removed> Subject: Re: Release cycle of man

The developent cycle of man includes developemnt releases, which are labelled 'rc' (for instance, the development releases for 1.6 were 1.6-rc-1 and 1.6-rc-2, which later became 1.6 with minor changes).

Development versions are usually released only to a select few testers and the people who originated the patches, for Q&A testing.

[Matthew Burgess]

Version increment (1.6c).

[Matthew Burgess]

Whoops! We're using man-db now, of course.