[Man-db-announce] man_db-2.3.18 released

[Colin W. <cjw...@de...>]

man_db: The on-line manual database
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I've released man_db version 2.3.18.

Description
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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
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This is an interim release under new maintenance, merging most of the
work done by former maintainers (Graeme Wilford and Fabrizio Polacco,
both of whom I thank for their work). It incorporates several years of
changes made in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution's package of man_db,
as well as the previously missing changes from Graeme Wilford's 2.3.11
and 2.3b12 releases.

I intend to use this as a synchronization point to merge fixes and
improvements made by other distributions. I would greatly appreciate it
if anyone else using man_db as their manual pager could send me any
relevant patches.

This release includes several security fixes (temporary files, a format
string vulnerability, more careful privilege dropping), better handling
of locales, improved use of gettext, and a number of other major and
minor enhancements. For full details, please see the files docs/NEWS and
docs/ChangeLog in the source distribution.

  http://man-db.sourceforge.net/
  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/man-db/man_db-2.3.18.tgz

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjw...@de...]