1 Version 1.40 May 28, 2011
4 * Document --libtool option.
5 * Allow date format to be localised.
6 * Add Japanese translation.
8 Version 1.39 March 8, 2011
10 * Add --libtool option to remove `lt-' prefix for libtool programs.
11 * Add Ukranian translation.
12 * Add Esperanto translation.
14 Version 1.38 April 26, 2010
16 * Support ENVIRONMENT and FILES sections.
17 * Move all translated text into .po files (previously .h2m include
18 files were handled seperately).
19 * Submit package to the Translation Project (translationproject.org).
20 * Add Vietnamese translation.
21 * Add some comments for translators.
23 Version 1.37 November 14, 2009
26 * Add --version-string option.
27 * Add --no-discard-stderr option.
28 * Add line breaks into bug reporting section.
29 * Add Brazilian Portuguese and German translations.
30 * Select a reasonable configure default for --enable-nls.
31 * Revise preload mechanism to not require preloadable libintl.
33 Version 1.36 October 17, 2005
35 * Add default territory to --locale option.
36 * Add Finnish translations.
38 Version 1.35 November 25, 2004
40 * Set program name to the first word of NAME paragraph in --include
43 Version 1.34 November 20, 2004
45 * Escape all unescaped hyphens in output.
46 * Convert parenthesised options, eg (-F).
47 * Fix info section in SEE ALSO to use $program rather than
48 $info_page when referring to the program.
50 Version 1.33 July 18, 2003
52 * Add Polish translations.
53 * Support for localised "Usage:" output.
54 * configure: add --disable-nls option; verify gettext support.
56 Version 1.32 July 10, 2003
58 * Set modification time on generated help2man script so that generation
59 of man pages is dependent only on changes to the source help2man.PL
62 Version 1.31 July 9, 2003
64 * Check for errors writing to output page.
66 Version 1.30 July 9, 2003
68 * Support for localised manual pages has been added (--locale option).
70 Version 1.29 September 7, 2002
72 * Change info category to "GNU programming support".
74 Version 1.28 June 4, 2002
76 * Add --info-page option.
78 Version 1.27 March 19, 2002
80 * Allow short and long options to be separated by multiple spaces
83 Version 1.26 March 9, 2002
85 * Documentation updates giving suggested --help output.
87 Version 1.25 December 3, 2001
89 * New --source and --manual options to allow the page headers and
90 footers to be specified.
92 * New --help-option and --version-option options to cater for programs
93 which don't support the standard --help and --version.
95 Version 1.24 December 22, 2000
97 * Allow options to be specified in the initial block of include files.
99 Version 1.23 October 31, 2000
101 * Escape leading apostrophes.
103 Version 1.022 July 7, 2000
105 * help2man is now officially a GNU program. Add bug reporting
106 address and `GNU' prefix.
108 * configure now checks for `perl5' as well as `perl'.
110 Version 1.021 April 16, 2000
112 * Create directories if required (Makefile).
114 Version 1.020 December 30, 1999
116 * Remove directory from command name(s) in synopsis.
118 Version 1.019 November 3, 1999
120 * Sadly, 2+ spaces *are* required to unambiguously separate options
123 Version 1.018 November 1, 1999
125 * Recognise additional synopsis lines without requiring `or:' prefix.
126 * Adjust option tagged paragraph matching so that the first option
127 argument does not require an `='.
129 Version 1.017 October 27, 1999
131 * Allow --include to be used multiple times.
132 * Include files may now contain `/pattern/' which will append the text
133 following to any paragraph which matches the pattern.
135 Version 1.016 October 25, 1999
137 * Handle indenting/continuation of things which look like options
138 separately. This removes the requirement for 2+ spaces between
139 option and description, allows the description to occur on the line
140 below the option and relaxes the indent matching rules for continued