- Update to 2.12.0:
* Fix some manual page portability issues with groff 1.23.0.
* Fix test failures when a working `iconv` is not available.
* Ensure that timestamps read from the database can go past the year 2038,
even on systems where this is not the default.
* Fix `manpath` not parsing `PATH` entries with trailing slash correctly
for guessing `MANPATH` entries.
* More accurately document the behaviour of passing file names as arguments
to `man` without the `-l`/`--local-file` option.
* Avoid duplicate cleanup of old cat pages by both `man-db.service` and
`systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service`.
Improvements:
* Update system call lists in `seccomp` sandbox from `systemd`.
* Upgrade to Gnulib `stable-202307`.
* Work around the Firebuild accelerator in `seccomp` sandbox: if this is in
use then we need to allow some socket-related system calls.
* `man -K` now deduplicates search results that point to the same page.
* Warn if `mandb` drops to `--user-db` mode due to running as the wrong
user.
* Change section title recommendations in `man(1)` to mention `STANDARDS`
rather than `CONFORMING TO`, in line with `man-pages(7)`.
* Add a `STANDARDS` section to `man(1)` itself.
* Document that `man -K` may suffer from false negatives as well as false
positives.
* Take advantage of newer `groff` facilities to implement `man
--no-hyphenation` and `man --no-justification`, if available.
* `man -f` and `man -k` now pass any `-r`/`--regex` or `-w`/`--wildcard`
options on to `whatis` and `apropos` respectively.
* Always pass a line length to `nroff`, even if we believe that it matches
the default.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1114606
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Base:System/man?expand=0&rev=150
- update to 2.10.2:
* Regenerating man-db's build system now explicitly requires Automake >=
1.14. (This was already the case since at least man-db 2.10.0, but was
previously undocumented.)
* Make `man -H` sleep for a few seconds after starting the browser, since
it may background itself before loading files (Dr. Werner Fink).
* If an override directory is configured using `--with-override-dir`, it is
now applied more consistently when building the manpath, and whether a
page was found in an override directory is considered when sorting
candidates for display (Mihail Konev).
* Make the man-db manual build reproducible.
* Add some hardening options to the `systemd` service.
* `configure` now has a `--with-snapdir` option, for use on systems where
`snapd` is configured to use a directory other than `/snap`.
* Fix occasional `mandb-symlink-target-timestamp` test failure.
* Fix inadvertent reliance on a GCC extension that caused build failures
with Clang.
* Fix building without `iconv`.
- drop man-db-2.7.1-firefox.dif (upstream)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/998716
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Base:System/man?expand=0&rev=142
- Add migration code to handle upgrade from old version of the man
package not supporting alternative path move (boo#1175919).
Bug was reopened by someone who skipped the Tumbleweed snapshot that changed libexecdir.
At this point, I don't think that encumbering spec file just to ensure migration path from older Tumbleweed upgrades worth it - Tumbleweed being fast moving with informed users.
But it made me think that migration path from Leap to Tumbleweed is also broken; And the one from Leap 15.2 to the next Leap version (or whatever the name becomes) will be broken as well.
So it might actually be good to add migration stuff. Feel free to decline though or do it differently, I'm not a fan of such things.
I've tested only:
- Upgrade from freshly installed old package (the one with old libexecdir and old update-alternatives calls, rebuilt here: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:1Antoine1:branches:Base:System/man).
- Upgrade from current man package freshly installed.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/833856
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Base:System/man?expand=0&rev=122
