[Bug 337302] [NEW] FF exception: man-db 2.5.4

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Binary package hint: man-db

I'd like a feature freeze exception for man-db 2.5.4-1. I uploaded it to
Debian unstable last week and it seems to be fine so far; Arch Linux
have also reported success with the same upstream version. There are no
packaging changes. I'd particularly like to get page duplication and
sorting fixes in. I'm the upstream maintainer as well as the
Debian/Ubuntu maintainer, and I'll pay close attention to any new bugs
filed.

Here's the upstream NEWS file, from which note that I'd already
backported the share/man search path order change.

man-db 2.5.4 (24 February 2009)
===============================

Major changes since man-db 2.5.3:

        Fixes:
        ------

        o Build fixes for systems without GNU Make, and for systems without
          gettext; this successfully covers at least FreeBSD.

        o The distclean target now works if po4a isn't installed.

        o Exit as soon as possible if database writes return ENOSPC.

        o lexgrog now stops on any unrecognised roff request, rather than
          continuing and often littering the database with garbage.

        o man no longer requires both standard input and standard output to
          be terminals in order to use the terminal line length. The line
          length from standard output is preferred if available.

        o The manpath was built completely wrongly when multiple entries
          were present in LANGUAGE: duplicates were handled strangely, and
          languages were effectively iterated in reverse order. It should be
          rather more sensible now.

        Improvements:
        -------------

        o The MAN_KEEP_STDERR environment variable can now be used to
          override man's default of discarding stderr when stdout is a
          terminal.

        o Handling of terminal widths for cat pages is now configurable,
          using the MINCATWIDTH, MAXCATWIDTH, and CATWIDTH configuration
          file directives.

        o 'man -a' now detects duplicate manual page candidates more
          reliably, and sorts them better.

        o Belarusian, Estonian, Greek, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian,
          Romanian, Slovenian, and Ukrainian pages are now supported.

        o man can now search for pages using regular expressions (with
          --regex) or shell wildcards (with --wildcard). By default this
          searches both page names and descriptions, like apropos, but if
          the --names-only option is used then it searches page names only,
          like whatis.

        o man can now tell nroff to disable hyphenation if the
          --no-hyphenation option is used.

        o man-db already searched for manual pages in ../man and man
          directories relative to each $PATH component; it now searches in
          ../share/man and share/man directories too.

        o Groff 1.20 was recently released, including the 'preconv'
          preprocessor. Although man-db has supported preconv to some extent
          since 2.4.4, man-db's configure now detects its presence and
          infers that groff supports Unicode input using it; man also now
          takes slightly better advantage of preconv than before.

        o Per-locale groff macros are now loaded if possible, allowing us to
          take advantage of such things as localised versions of predefined
          strings and language-aware hyphenation. This only works with Groff
          1.20.2 or better (not yet released), since earlier versions did
          not allow us to suppress warnings in the event that the
          appropriate macro file is not available.

** Affects: man-db (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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FF exception: man-db 2.5.4
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/337302
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