1 help2man (1.47.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3 * Add Serbian translation of info page (thanks to Мирослав Николић).
4 * Update Swedish translation (thanks to Sebastian Rasmussen).
5 * Update to debhelper v13.
6 * Update standards version to 4.5.1 (no changes).
7 * Update copyright years.
9 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 2021 22:27:16 +1100
11 help2man (1.47.16) unstable; urgency=medium
13 * Move table of contents to the top of the texi file so that it appears
14 in the correct location in the html page (thanks to Michael Siegel).
15 * Update debian/rules maint-prep warning about $version mismatch.
16 * Update help2man.html.PL for new GNU boilerplate.
18 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2020 23:21:58 +1000
20 help2man (1.47.15) unstable; urgency=medium
22 * Use the package name and version as the default for --source (was
24 * Support packages in version strings without the GNU or Free prefix.
25 * Allow an optional second dash to separate the package name from the
26 version for multi-word packages: "program - package name - version".
28 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:34:29 +1000
30 help2man (1.47.14) unstable; urgency=medium
32 * Revert --version parsing change from 1.47.13, which had unintended
33 consequences for some version strings. In short, it is not possible
34 to unambiguously determine the split between the package/program name
35 and version in some of the supported formats. Multi-word package
36 names are supported only in the "program (GNU package) version"
37 variant (closes: #958345).
39 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:58:17 +1000
41 help2man (1.47.13) unstable; urgency=medium
43 * Merge change from Po-Chuan Hsieh to suppress creation of an empty
44 pkglibdir when nls is disabled.
45 * Remove install_dirs target entirely, add explicit $(MKINSTALLDIRS)
46 before each $(INSTALL_{DATA,PROGRAM}) call.
47 * Update parsing of --version to allow multi-word programs when
48 constructing the placeholder NAME paragraph (thanks to Jarno Suni).
50 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2020 22:05:41 +1100
52 help2man (1.47.12) unstable; urgency=medium
54 * Fix minor error in po/es.po .
55 * Fix ordering of "other" sections in manual page (as reported by Reuben
58 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 04 Jan 2020 17:02:33 +1100
60 help2man (1.47.11) unstable; urgency=medium
62 * Adjust maintainer sanity check again, this time to handle binary NMUs
65 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 12 Aug 2019 22:52:07 +1000
67 help2man (1.47.10) unstable; urgency=medium
69 * Change maintainer sanity check in debian/rules to use the contents
70 of README rather than the mtime, which may be have been modified by
71 dpkg-source (closes: #925136).
73 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 23 Mar 2019 12:18:57 +1100
75 help2man (1.47.9) unstable; urgency=medium
77 * Add Tamil translation (thanks to Arun Isaac).
79 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 18 Mar 2019 19:10:35 +1100
81 help2man (1.47.8) unstable; urgency=medium
83 * Use $(DEB_VERSION) from pkg-info.mk [lintian].
84 * Fix git repository link in generated README.
85 * Update debian/copyright to machine readable format [lintian].
86 * Update standards version to 4.2.1 (no changes).
88 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 13 Oct 2018 15:16:45 +1100
90 help2man (1.47.7) unstable; urgency=medium
92 * Remove trailing spaces from changelog [lintian].
93 * Update years in debian/copyright.
94 * Reference version-specific /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3 in
95 copyright rather than the unversioned GPL symlink [lintian].
96 * Add Swedish translation of info page (thanks to Sebastian Rasmussen).
98 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 23 Sep 2018 15:01:18 +1000
100 help2man (1.47.6) unstable; urgency=medium
102 * Update to debhelper v11.
103 * Move repository to salsa.debian.org.
104 * Update Vcs-Git/Vcs-Browser.
105 * Update standards version to 4.1.3:
106 + update config.{guess,sub} at build time
107 * Add Brazilian Portuguese translation of info page (thanks to Rafael
109 * Update Hungarian translation (thanks to Balázs Úr).
110 * Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rafael Fontenelle).
112 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 28 Feb 2018 22:32:32 +1100
114 help2man (1.47.5) unstable; urgency=medium
116 * Refresh Brazilian Portuguese translation from translation project copy
117 (trivial date change).
118 * Update Swedish translation (thanks to Sebastian Rasmussen).
119 * Use POSIX compliant TZ when setting UTC (thanks to Paul Eggert).
120 * Update copyright years.
122 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 23 Sep 2017 13:38:28 +1000
124 help2man (1.47.4) unstable; urgency=medium
126 * Update Serbian translation (thanks to Мирослав Николић).
127 * Add Chinese (simplified) translation of info page (thanks to Mingye Wang).
128 * Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rafael Fontenelle).
129 * Reduce the minimum translation to 60% for info files.
130 * Extract version from dpkg-parsechangelog using the new flag, rather
132 * Add hardening flags via DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS.
133 * Use secure VCS URIs.
134 * Update standards version to 3.9.8.
136 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 09 May 2016 17:20:39 +1000
138 help2man (1.47.3) unstable; urgency=medium
140 * Filter more untranslatable strings from help2man-texi.pot, and add a
141 note to translators about translation of cross-references.
143 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2015 21:41:15 +1100
145 help2man (1.47.2) unstable; urgency=medium
147 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
148 * Add Chinese (simplified) translation (thanks to Mingye Wang).
150 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 11 Sep 2015 21:25:08 +1000
152 help2man (1.47.1) unstable; urgency=medium
154 * Set document language for localised info pages.
155 * Update German translations (thanks to Mario Blättermann).
156 * Update Ukranian translations (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
157 * Update French translations (thanks to David Prévot).
158 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
159 * Update Norwegian Bokmaal translation (thanks to Johnny A. Solbu).
160 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
161 * Update Danish translation (thanks to Joe Hansen).
162 * Update Polish translations (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
163 * Update Spanish translation and add translation of the info page
164 (thanks to Antonio Ceballos).
165 * Add support for reproducible builds by using $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH as the
166 date for the generated pages (closes: #787444).
168 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jun 2015 23:06:35 +1000
170 help2man (1.46.6) unstable; urgency=medium
172 * Add Danish translation (thanks to Joe Hansen).
173 * Update Finnish translation (thanks to Jorma Karvonen).
175 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 26 Apr 2015 13:52:49 +1000
177 help2man (1.46.5) unstable; urgency=medium
179 * Fix a problem with LC_ALL being imported twice with different
180 prototypes from POSIX and Locale::gettext (thanks to Gavin Smith for
182 * Update copyright years.
184 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:34:50 +1100
186 help2man (1.46.4) unstable; urgency=medium
188 * Include architecture.mk and buildflags.mk into rules to replace the
189 multiple calls to dpkg-architecture and to pick up the correct
191 * Add $(LDFLAGS) when building preload to pick up -z relro (see
192 https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening).
193 * Minor correction to Norwegian Bokmaal translation.
194 * Minor correction to Brazilian Portuguese translation.
195 * Escape dashes in --name flag for groff (see lintian tag:
196 hyphen-used-as-minus-sign).
197 * Fix example using AM_MISSING_PROG in documentation: this macro no
198 longer requires the third argument.
200 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:08:17 +1100
202 help2man (1.46.3) unstable; urgency=medium
204 * Update Serbian translation (thanks to Мирослав Николић).
205 * Add Spanish translation (thanks to Antonio Ceballos).
207 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2014 19:01:16 +1000
209 help2man (1.46.2) unstable; urgency=medium
211 * Update French translation, and add translation of info page (thanks to
214 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 06 Sep 2014 14:17:45 +1000
216 help2man (1.46.1) unstable; urgency=medium
218 * Apply texinfo patch from Mario Blätterman.
219 * Rename aclocal macros with LOCAL_ prefix.
220 * Include "missing" program from automake in distribution.
221 * Add LOCAL_PROG_OR_MISSING macro.
222 * Add German translation of info page (thanks to Mario Blätterman).
223 * Change reference to standards to avoid spurious comma.
224 * Merge updates into texinfo translations.
225 * Update German translation (thanks to Mario Blättermann).
226 * Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rafael Ferreira).
227 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
228 * Update Ukranian translation, and add translation of info page (thanks
230 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
231 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot).
232 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
233 * Add Hungarian translation (thanks to Balázs Úr).
234 * Update Polish translation, and add translation of info page (thanks to
236 * Move automake helper scripts into a build-aux sub-directory.
237 * Add a helper script to locate files in $VPATH.
238 * Add helper scripts to clean up texinfo translations:
239 + fixup-tex-pot: remove entries from template which should not be
241 + fixup-texi-trans: add the correct path for install-info and correct the
242 alignment of the main menu.
243 * Add Norwegian Bokmaal translation (thanks to Johnny A. Solbu).
245 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jul 2014 23:25:48 +1000
247 help2man (1.45.1) unstable; urgency=low
249 * Skip additional blank lines following sections, and provide an
250 explicit method of adding sections (thanks to Mischa Williamson).
251 * Improve handling of tagged paragraphs when the body is on a following
252 line (thanks to Brian Campbell).
253 * Add escapes to adjust spacing of italic text at roman/italic
254 boundaries (thanks to Bjarni Ingi Gislason, closes: #742289)
256 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:45:24 +1100
258 help2man (1.44.1) unstable; urgency=low
260 * Perform shell word splitting on option lines in include files.
261 * Update Serbian translation (thanks to Мирослав Николић).
262 * Update German translation (thanks to Mario Blättermann).
263 * Update copyright years.
264 * Change distribution filename in README to help2man-VERSION.tar.xz
265 * Fix gitweb URL in README.
267 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 02 Feb 2014 15:07:59 +1100
269 help2man (1.43.3) unstable; urgency=low
271 * Update Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
272 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
273 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
274 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
275 * Update Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
276 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
277 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot).
279 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 08 Jun 2013 22:31:52 +1000
281 help2man (1.43.2) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Use the generic term "section" in the documentation rather than "name",
284 which could be confused to mean only the literal "NAME" section.
286 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:13:29 +1000
288 help2man (1.43.1) unstable; urgency=low
290 * Add explicit include syntax for prepending, replacing or appending to
291 generated output for a section (thanks to Daniil Baturin for the idea).
292 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
293 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
295 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 04 Jun 2013 22:22:39 +1000
297 help2man (1.42.1) unstable; urgency=low
299 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
300 * Update Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).
301 * Consistently strip path and/or libtool "lt-" prefix from any instance
302 of $program derived from --help or --version (thanks to Eric Shattow
303 for identifying the issue).
305 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 28 May 2013 21:49:20 +1000
307 help2man (1.41.2) unstable; urgency=low
309 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
310 * Update Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).
311 * Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rodolfo Ribeiro
314 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 14 Apr 2013 07:05:43 +1000
316 help2man (1.41.1) unstable; urgency=low
318 * Rename configure.in to .ac, and revise use of AC_INIT/AC_OUTPUT macros
319 to meet current autoconf guidelines.
320 * Add copyright headers to supporting files (GNU All-Permissive License).
321 * Fix section name comparisons ($sect is localised).
322 * Set filenames in italics (as suggested by Yann Soubeyrand).
323 * Suppress option/filename handling in EXAMPLES section.
325 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:24:33 +1100
327 help2man (1.40.13) unstable; urgency=low
329 * Add "Multi-Arch: foreign" control field to permit any installable
330 architecture to satisfy a build dependency when cross-building
331 packages (closes: #694586).
333 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 23:01:36 +1100
335 help2man (1.40.12) unstable; urgency=low
337 * Update Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).
338 * Fix updating of help2man.pot to occur only when help2man.PL is
339 changed, not help2man generated.
341 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:43:05 +1000
343 help2man (1.40.11) unstable; urgency=low
345 * Add Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).
347 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:29:43 +1000
349 help2man (1.40.10) unstable; urgency=low
351 * Update Greek translation (thanks to Savvas Radevic).
352 * Update Serbian translation (thanks to Мирослав Николић).
353 * Update German translation (thanks to Arun Persaud).
355 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2012 13:54:58 +1000
357 help2man (1.40.9) unstable; urgency=low
359 * Update Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
360 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
361 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
362 * Update German translation (thanks to Chris Leick, closes: #669564).
364 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:35:43 +1000
366 help2man (1.40.8) unstable; urgency=low
368 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot).
369 * Update Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
370 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
371 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
372 * Update Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
373 * Modify self-extracting scripts to output to a temporary file.
374 * Ensure that help2man exists before building manual pages (as reported
377 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 08 Apr 2012 23:10:20 +1000
379 help2man (1.40.7) unstable; urgency=low
381 * Update Greek translation (thanks to Savvas Radevic).
383 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:28:41 +1100
385 help2man (1.40.6) unstable; urgency=low
387 * Update years in debian/copyright.
388 * Fix FSF address in comments (thanks to Paul Eggert).
390 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:39:25 +1100
392 help2man (1.40.5) unstable; urgency=low
394 * Clean up some lintian warnings: build-targets, source format and
396 * Add Serbian translation (thanks to Miroslav Nikolic).
397 * Fix trivial translation changes due to additional copyright year.
398 * Minor fix to Italian translation.
400 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:50:50 +1100
402 help2man (1.40.4) unstable; urgency=low
404 * Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rodolfo Ribeiro
407 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:29:04 +1000
409 help2man (1.40.3) unstable; urgency=low
411 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
412 * Update links to git repository.
414 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:08:53 +1000
416 help2man (1.40.2) unstable; urgency=low
418 * Remove a superfluous period from texinfo doc.
419 * Change footnote about supported languages to a simple paragraph.
420 * Update Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
421 * Update Ukrainian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
422 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot).
423 * Update Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
424 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
425 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
427 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:04:45 +1000
429 help2man (1.40.1) unstable; urgency=low
431 * Update texinfo docs with recommendations kindly provided by Karl
433 * Document --libtool option.
434 * Fixup references to GNU Standards.
435 * Allow date format to be localised (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
436 * Add Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
438 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 29 May 2011 11:31:14 +1000
440 help2man (1.39.4) unstable; urgency=low
442 * Update Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
444 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 11 May 2011 22:58:55 +1000
446 help2man (1.39.3) unstable; urgency=low
448 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot, closes: #620250).
449 * Update the "Localised man pages" section of the Texinfo docs and note that
450 translations are now handled through the Translation Project.
451 * Update German translation (thanks to Chris Leick, closes: #624401).
452 * Minor update to German translation as suggested by Werner Lemberg in
453 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=26828512
455 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 01 May 2011 10:35:38 +1000
457 help2man (1.39.2) unstable; urgency=low
459 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
460 * Update Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
461 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
462 * Add Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
463 * Update Finnish translation (thanks to Tommi Vainikainen).
465 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:33:01 +1100
467 help2man (1.39.1) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Add option to remove `lt-' prefix for libtool programs (thanks to
471 * Add Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
472 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
473 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
475 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:15:44 +1100
477 help2man (1.38.4) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Add Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
480 * Don't double encode $date in the header.
481 * Use UTF-8 encoding for all manual pages.
482 * Add Greek translation (thanks to Michael Kotsarinis).
483 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot, closes: #590580).
484 * Update German translation (thanks to Helge Kreutzmann, closes: #590975).
485 * Use INSTALL_SCRIPT to install Perl script.
486 * Remove deprecated DH_COMPAT in debian/rules, adding debian/compat.
487 * Add ${misc:Depends}.
488 * Don't ignore errors from distclean.
489 * Fix Brazilian, Russian and Italian translations (placement of period was
490 causing text to be interpreted as a macro).
491 * Update standards version to 3.9.1.
492 * Add missing dependency on dpkg/install-info.
493 * Strip bindtextdomain.so preload.
494 * Install preload into $(libdir)/help2man.
496 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:43:36 +1100
498 help2man (1.38.3) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Apply patch from Mike Frysinger to allow "make install -j" to work.
502 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:17:17 +1000
504 help2man (1.38.2) unstable; urgency=low
506 * Update Finnish translation (thanks to Tommi Vainikainen).
507 * Add Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
509 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:00:04 +1000
511 help2man (1.38.1) unstable; urgency=low
513 * Add support for ENVIRONMENT and FILES sections (Sven Utcke).
514 * Ensure THANKS file includes translators.
515 * Fix handling of translated --no-discard-stderr instruction.
516 * Move tranlsated .h2m contents into .po files.
517 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
518 * Add Vietnamese translation (thanks to Clytie Siddall).
519 * Add some comments for translators.
521 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:59:32 +1000
523 help2man (1.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
525 * Fix typo in comment (Paul Eggert).
526 * Move cvs repository to git.
527 * Remove extraneous whitespace from debian/rules.
528 * Sanity check that version in help2man.PL matches debian/changelog.
529 * Handle automake directory with explicit version number.
530 * Integrate NMU, thanks Stefano.
531 * Add @datarootdir@ used by new autoconf.
532 * Add --no-discard-stderr option, suggest use if no stdout (closes: #138752).
533 * Add VCS fields to debian/control.
534 * Update copyright years.
535 * Anchor [section] and /pattern/ matches for include files so that
536 pathnames are not matched by the latter (Reuben Thomas).
537 * Add line breaks into bug reporting section (Jim Meyering).
538 * Clarify that the section output order contains optional items (Rueben).
539 * Match "Report <prog> bugs to ..." (Jim).
540 * Add Brazilian Portuguese translation (Rodolfo Ribeiro Gomes).
541 * Add German translation (Chris Leick, closes: #547154).
542 * Remove addition of default territory to locale (closes: #336298).
543 * Set locale via argument embedded in .h2m files.
544 * Select a reasonable configure default for --enable-nls.
545 * Parse program output and include files in the chartset given by --locale.
546 * Conditionally include gettext support at extraction, rather than run-time.
547 * Revise preload mechanism to not require preloadable libintl.
548 * Document recommended suffixes for --include files (Simon Josefsson).
550 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:35:45 +1100
552 help2man (1.36.4+nmu1) unstable; urgency=low
554 * Non-maintainer upload.
555 * Bump debhelper compatibility level to 5 (4 is deprecated now), move
556 the setting to debian/compat
557 * Add missing dependency on ${shlibs:Depends}, neede by the .so file
559 * Add --version-string option to support programs which are missing some
560 sort of --version option. Thanks to Lionel Elie Mamane for the patch.
563 -- Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:35:34 +0200
565 help2man (1.36.4) unstable; urgency=low
567 * Add sv translation from Daniel Nylander (closes: #349568).
569 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:42:19 +1100
571 help2man (1.36.3) unstable; urgency=low
573 * Updated fr translation from Denis Barbier (closes: #338995).
575 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:57:23 +1100
577 help2man (1.36.2) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Updated po translation from Jakub Bogusz.
580 * Makefile.in: $(srcdir) fix from Paul Eggert (closes: #335741).
582 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:46:16 +1000
584 help2man (1.36.1) unstable; urgency=low
586 * Add default territory to --locale option.
587 * Add Finnish translations (thanks to Tommi Vainikainen,
589 * Correctly update .pot and .po files (thanks to Thomas Huriaux,
592 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:38:59 +1000
594 help2man (1.35.2) unstable; urgency=low
596 * help2man.texi: spelling corrections (closes: #328671).
597 * debian/rules: configure --host on cross build (closes: #284701).
598 * debian/rules: set DH_COMPAT to 4.
600 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 4 Oct 2005 22:14:26 +1000
602 help2man (1.35.1) unstable; urgency=low
604 * Set program name to the first word of NAME paragraph in --include
607 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:06:58 +1100
609 help2man (1.34.2) unstable; urgency=low
611 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
613 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:28:29 +1100
615 help2man (1.34.1) unstable; urgency=low
617 * Escape all unescaped hyphens in output (closes: #263803).
618 * Convert parenthesised options, eg (-F).
619 * info section in SEE ALSO should use $program rather than $info_page
620 when referring to the program (thanks to Jim Mayering).
622 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 20 Nov 2004 09:54:13 +1100
624 help2man (1.33.1) unstable; urgency=low
626 * Allow "Usage" to be localised.
627 * Add Polish translations (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
628 * Add --enable-nls/--disable-nls configure option.
629 * Add back gettext and libgettext-perl build-depends (for configure).
630 * Check for Locale::gettext, gettext and usability of
631 preloadable_libintl.so.
633 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 00:14:25 +1000
635 help2man (1.32.2) unstable; urgency=low
637 * Build preload with -fPIC. Closes: #200632.
639 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jul 2003 07:57:56 +1000
641 help2man (1.32.1) unstable; urgency=low
643 * Set times on generated help2man so pages don't need to be
644 regenerated. Remove some associated build-deps.
646 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:13:42 +1000
648 help2man (1.31.2) unstable; urgency=low
650 * Fix quoting in generation of README file.
651 * Changed to arch=any due to inclusion of the LD_PRELOAD library.
653 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 22:59:28 +1000
655 help2man (1.31.1) unstable; urgency=low
657 * Oops, might help to actually *install* the message catalog.
658 * Check for errors writing output (suggested by Jim Meyering).
659 * Work around an odd regex bug under perl 5.6+ where /^ {0}(\S.*)\n/
660 doesn't match correctly.
662 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 20:20:02 +1000
664 help2man (1.30.1) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Add support for localised manual pages (closes #183671). Many
667 thanks to Denis Barbier for patches, advice and French
670 * Import RCS files to CVS.
671 * Convert to native Debian package.
673 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 8 Jul 2003 23:57:44 +1000
675 Sat Sep 7 02:13:05 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
677 * help2man.texi: Change @dircategory to "GNU programming support"
678 (Karl Berry). Change @setchapternewpage to "on" (Peter Moulder).
680 * Makefile.in: Added some more GNU standard targets (Peter
683 * Makefile.in, help2man.h2m: Rename help2man.aux to .h2m to avoid
686 * help2man.PL: version bump
688 Tue Jun 4 00:53:18 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
690 * help2man.PL: Expand copyright years (Paul Eggert). Provide
691 --info-page option (Bonzini).
693 * README.sh: hrm, different awk...
695 Tue Mar 19 23:52:37 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
697 * help2man.PL: Allow short and long options to be separated by
698 multiple spaces (Paul Eggert).
700 Sat Mar 9 23:54:01 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
702 * help2man.PL: version bump for doc changes
703 * help2man.texi: Add --help recommendations from Karl Berry (& co.)
705 Mon Dec 3 19:02:26 2001 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
707 * README.sh: Change email address
708 * configure.in: Require perl 5.005
709 * help2man.PL, help2man.texi: Add --source, --manual, --help-option
710 and --version-option; change email address; update copyright
712 Fri Dec 22 23:17:11 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
714 * help2man.PL: Process options given in the block before the first
715 section of an include file (suggested by Akim Demaille).
717 * help2man.aux: Document option parsing of initial include file
720 * help2man.texi: Use @pxref rather than @xref (Karl Berry).
721 Document option parsing of initial include file segment.
723 Tue Oct 31 17:07:30 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
725 * help2man.PL: Add protection for leading apostrophes (reported by
726 Matt Kraai). Don't zero-pad version.
728 Fri Jul 7 16:16:18 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
730 * README.sh: Add GNU prefix
731 * aclocal.m4: (add) autoconf support
732 * configure.in: Use AC_PROG_PERL from aclocal.m4 to find perl
733 (checks for perl and perl5)
735 * help2man.PL: Add GNU prefix, bug reporting address
736 * help2man.aux: Remove ozemail URL
737 * help2man.texi: Add GNU prefix, bug reporting address. Remove
740 Sun Apr 16 00:18:41 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
742 * Makefile.in: Add mkinstalldirs (as reqested by Dave Morrison,
743 Patrick Tullmann and Mo DeJong)
745 * help2man.PL: Version bump
747 Thu Dec 30 01:29:12 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
749 * help2man.texi: Correct typo
751 Thu Nov 11 03:16:25 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
753 * help2man.PL: Remove directories from synopsis
755 Wed Nov 3 17:39:50 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
757 * help2man.PL: Revise tagged paragraph matching *again*
759 Mon Nov 1 21:50:36 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
761 * help2man.PL: Allow multiple synopsis entries (w/- `or:'). Single
762 options may have argument w/- `='.
764 * help2man.texi: Add /pattern/
765 * configure.in: Add MAKEINFO/INSTALL_INFO
766 * Makefile.in: Install help2man.info
768 Wed Oct 27 16:02:00 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
770 * help2man.PL: Allow --include to be specified multiple times. Add
773 * help2man.aux: Document /pattern/ syntax
775 Mon Oct 25 22:36:16 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
777 * help2man.PL: Fix odd /^x|^y/ pre-5.005 perl bug. Split tagged
778 paragraph logic into option/other. Protect leading periods in
781 * THANKS to Roland Huebner for extensive bug report.
784 Tue Oct 12 16:25:23 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
786 * help2man.PL: Protect leading dots (1.14: not released)
788 * README.sh, help2man.aux: Add ftp.gnu.org URL
789 * help2man.PL: Allow fixed-pitch examples where prefixed by $,
792 Thu Sep 2 19:43:02 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
794 * help2man.PL: Fix typo in --help (Jim Meyering)
795 Escape backslashes (Andreas Schwab/Peter Moulder)
797 * help2man.texi: (add) Texinfo docs for help2man
799 Thu Jun 24 12:17:50 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
801 * help2man.PL: Add --section option (from Okuji Yoshinori). Fixes
802 to option handling and inter-paragraph breaks.
804 Thu Jun 17 19:45:08 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
806 * help2man.PL: Defer option formatting until after paragraph
807 continuation handling
809 * Makefile.in, configure.in: (add) autoconf support
810 * configure, makefile.dist: (remove) autoconf support
811 * README.in: Rename to README.sh (so as not to be confused with
814 Wed Mar 24 21:47:18 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
816 * help2man.PL: Improved tagged paragraph/continuation handling
818 Thu Feb 25 15:58:30 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
820 * README.in, help2man.aux: Add URL for distribution
821 * help2man.PL: Increment revision (changes to help2man.aux)
823 Thu Jan 21 14:46:48 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
825 * help2man.PL: Update copyright
826 * makefile.dist: Add help2man.1 to `all' target
828 Mon Jan 11 10:42:04 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
830 * help2man.PL: Handle version output with `Free' as well as `GNU'.
831 Missing backslash in initial comment (from Andreas Schwab)
833 Thu Dec 10 12:50:10 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
835 * help2man.PL: Experimental NLS version on main trunk (1.6-1.8)
836 pruned, rejoined branch 1.5.1.4 as 1.6
838 Cleaned up version format and removed François' name from
839 the code (at his suggestion).
841 * README.in: (add) Description for help2man
842 * configure: (add) Dodgy configure script for help2man
843 * help2man.aux: (add) Include file for help2man man page
844 * makefile.dist: (add) Dodgy makefile for help2man
846 Wed Nov 25 11:31:09 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
848 * help2man.PL: Join hyphenated lines in --version output
850 Tue Oct 20 20:44:46 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
852 * help2man.PL: Fix strftime locale (from Akim Demaille), add
855 Tue Oct 6 10:05:20 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
857 * help2man.PL: Remove --manhelp/oneliner mechanism
859 Sat Aug 29 04:50:02 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
861 * help2man.PL: Add --include/--opt-include options and Clark
862 Morgan's --manhelp/oneliner parsing. Merged changes from Karl
865 Thu Feb 26 10:38:34 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
867 * help2man.PL: Fix synopsis and revert `use version' to `require
868 version' as perl5.003 doesn't grok the former
870 Mon Feb 23 11:54:13 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
872 * help2man.PL: Add --output
874 Fri Feb 20 15:14:22 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
876 * help2man.PL: Made self-extracting .PL for portability; Some
877 enhancements to work with a2ps for Akim
879 Thu Feb 19 10:16:58 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
881 * help2man.PL: Fix DESCRIPTION mis-spell (from Akim Demaille)
883 Thu Jan 22 16:53:32 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
885 * help2man.PL: (add) Generate man page from a program's --version