[Man-db-announce] man_db 2.3.19 released

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

man_db: The on-line manual database
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I've released man_db version 2.3.19.

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 release makes it easier for distributors to allow the man_db tools
to be installed without elevated privileges. man_db can be compiled with
support for being installed setuid, but can then be installed without
the setuid bit with no ill effects. In this mode, cat pages will not be
saved. This is now the recommended way to install man_db.

man should now be much faster for all users, as it will not try to
update databases on the fly. While this behaviour had some benefits, it
often caused long delays in interactive use.

A number of other fixes and enhancements are included in this release,
including security fixes for those installing man_db setuid (e.g. the
configuration in ~/.manpath is not trusted), configurable section
ordering, recognition of terminal size, and a number of improvements to
the tools' robustness. 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-2.3.19.tgz

Cheers,

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