1 help2man (1.47.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3 * Merge change from Po-Chuan Hsieh to suppress creation of an empty
4 pkglibdir when nls is disabled.
5 * Remove install_dirs target entirely, add explicit $(MKINSTALLDIRS)
6 before each $(INSTALL_{DATA,PROGRAM}) call.
7 * Update parsing of --version to allow multi-word programs when
8 constructing the placeholder NAME paragraph (thanks to Jarno Suni).
10 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2020 22:05:41 +1100
12 help2man (1.47.12) unstable; urgency=medium
14 * Fix minor error in po/es.po .
15 * Fix ordering of "other" sections in manual page (as reported by Reuben
18 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 04 Jan 2020 17:02:33 +1100
20 help2man (1.47.11) unstable; urgency=medium
22 * Adjust maintainer sanity check again, this time to handle binary NMUs
25 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 12 Aug 2019 22:52:07 +1000
27 help2man (1.47.10) unstable; urgency=medium
29 * Change maintainer sanity check in debian/rules to use the contents
30 of README rather than the mtime, which may be have been modified by
31 dpkg-source (closes: #925136).
33 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 23 Mar 2019 12:18:57 +1100
35 help2man (1.47.9) unstable; urgency=medium
37 * Add Tamil translation (thanks to Arun Isaac).
39 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 18 Mar 2019 19:10:35 +1100
41 help2man (1.47.8) unstable; urgency=medium
43 * Use $(DEB_VERSION) from pkg-info.mk [lintian].
44 * Fix git repository link in generated README.
45 * Update debian/copyright to machine readable format [lintian].
46 * Update standards version to 4.2.1 (no changes).
48 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 13 Oct 2018 15:16:45 +1100
50 help2man (1.47.7) unstable; urgency=medium
52 * Remove trailing spaces from changelog [lintian].
53 * Update years in debian/copyright.
54 * Reference version-specific /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3 in
55 copyright rather than the unversioned GPL symlink [lintian].
56 * Add Swedish translation of info page (thanks to Sebastian Rasmussen).
58 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 23 Sep 2018 15:01:18 +1000
60 help2man (1.47.6) unstable; urgency=medium
62 * Update to debhelper v11.
63 * Move repository to salsa.debian.org.
64 * Update Vcs-Git/Vcs-Browser.
65 * Update standards version to 4.1.3:
66 + update config.{guess,sub} at build time
67 * Add Brazilian Portuguese translation of info page (thanks to Rafael
69 * Update Hungarian translation (thanks to Balázs Úr).
70 * Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rafael Fontenelle).
72 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 28 Feb 2018 22:32:32 +1100
74 help2man (1.47.5) unstable; urgency=medium
76 * Refresh Brazilian Portuguese translation from translation project copy
77 (trivial date change).
78 * Update Swedish translation (thanks to Sebastian Rasmussen).
79 * Use POSIX compliant TZ when setting UTC (thanks to Paul Eggert).
80 * Update copyright years.
82 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 23 Sep 2017 13:38:28 +1000
84 help2man (1.47.4) unstable; urgency=medium
86 * Update Serbian translation (thanks to Мирослав Николић).
87 * Add Chinese (simplified) translation of info page (thanks to Mingye Wang).
88 * Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rafael Fontenelle).
89 * Reduce the minimum translation to 60% for info files.
90 * Extract version from dpkg-parsechangelog using the new flag, rather
92 * Add hardening flags via DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS.
93 * Use secure VCS URIs.
94 * Update standards version to 3.9.8.
96 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 09 May 2016 17:20:39 +1000
98 help2man (1.47.3) unstable; urgency=medium
100 * Filter more untranslatable strings from help2man-texi.pot, and add a
101 note to translators about translation of cross-references.
103 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2015 21:41:15 +1100
105 help2man (1.47.2) unstable; urgency=medium
107 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
108 * Add Chinese (simplified) translation (thanks to Mingye Wang).
110 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 11 Sep 2015 21:25:08 +1000
112 help2man (1.47.1) unstable; urgency=medium
114 * Set document language for localised info pages.
115 * Update German translations (thanks to Mario Blättermann).
116 * Update Ukranian translations (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
117 * Update French translations (thanks to David Prévot).
118 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
119 * Update Norwegian Bokmaal translation (thanks to Johnny A. Solbu).
120 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
121 * Update Danish translation (thanks to Joe Hansen).
122 * Update Polish translations (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
123 * Update Spanish translation and add translation of the info page
124 (thanks to Antonio Ceballos).
125 * Add support for reproducible builds by using $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH as the
126 date for the generated pages (closes: #787444).
128 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jun 2015 23:06:35 +1000
130 help2man (1.46.6) unstable; urgency=medium
132 * Add Danish translation (thanks to Joe Hansen).
133 * Update Finnish translation (thanks to Jorma Karvonen).
135 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 26 Apr 2015 13:52:49 +1000
137 help2man (1.46.5) unstable; urgency=medium
139 * Fix a problem with LC_ALL being imported twice with different
140 prototypes from POSIX and Locale::gettext (thanks to Gavin Smith for
142 * Update copyright years.
144 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:34:50 +1100
146 help2man (1.46.4) unstable; urgency=medium
148 * Include architecture.mk and buildflags.mk into rules to replace the
149 multiple calls to dpkg-architecture and to pick up the correct
151 * Add $(LDFLAGS) when building preload to pick up -z relro (see
152 https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening).
153 * Minor correction to Norwegian Bokmaal translation.
154 * Minor correction to Brazilian Portuguese translation.
155 * Escape dashes in --name flag for groff (see lintian tag:
156 hyphen-used-as-minus-sign).
157 * Fix example using AM_MISSING_PROG in documentation: this macro no
158 longer requires the third argument.
160 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:08:17 +1100
162 help2man (1.46.3) unstable; urgency=medium
164 * Update Serbian translation (thanks to Мирослав Николић).
165 * Add Spanish translation (thanks to Antonio Ceballos).
167 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2014 19:01:16 +1000
169 help2man (1.46.2) unstable; urgency=medium
171 * Update French translation, and add translation of info page (thanks to
174 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 06 Sep 2014 14:17:45 +1000
176 help2man (1.46.1) unstable; urgency=medium
178 * Apply texinfo patch from Mario Blätterman.
179 * Rename aclocal macros with LOCAL_ prefix.
180 * Include "missing" program from automake in distribution.
181 * Add LOCAL_PROG_OR_MISSING macro.
182 * Add German translation of info page (thanks to Mario Blätterman).
183 * Change reference to standards to avoid spurious comma.
184 * Merge updates into texinfo translations.
185 * Update German translation (thanks to Mario Blättermann).
186 * Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rafael Ferreira).
187 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
188 * Update Ukranian translation, and add translation of info page (thanks
190 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
191 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot).
192 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
193 * Add Hungarian translation (thanks to Balázs Úr).
194 * Update Polish translation, and add translation of info page (thanks to
196 * Move automake helper scripts into a build-aux sub-directory.
197 * Add a helper script to locate files in $VPATH.
198 * Add helper scripts to clean up texinfo translations:
199 + fixup-tex-pot: remove entries from template which should not be
201 + fixup-texi-trans: add the correct path for install-info and correct the
202 alignment of the main menu.
203 * Add Norwegian Bokmaal translation (thanks to Johnny A. Solbu).
205 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jul 2014 23:25:48 +1000
207 help2man (1.45.1) unstable; urgency=low
209 * Skip additional blank lines following sections, and provide an
210 explicit method of adding sections (thanks to Mischa Williamson).
211 * Improve handling of tagged paragraphs when the body is on a following
212 line (thanks to Brian Campbell).
213 * Add escapes to adjust spacing of italic text at roman/italic
214 boundaries (thanks to Bjarni Ingi Gislason, closes: #742289)
216 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:45:24 +1100
218 help2man (1.44.1) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Perform shell word splitting on option lines in include files.
221 * Update Serbian translation (thanks to Мирослав Николић).
222 * Update German translation (thanks to Mario Blättermann).
223 * Update copyright years.
224 * Change distribution filename in README to help2man-VERSION.tar.xz
225 * Fix gitweb URL in README.
227 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 02 Feb 2014 15:07:59 +1100
229 help2man (1.43.3) unstable; urgency=low
231 * Update Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
232 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
233 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
234 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
235 * Update Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
236 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
237 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot).
239 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 08 Jun 2013 22:31:52 +1000
241 help2man (1.43.2) unstable; urgency=low
243 * Use the generic term "section" in the documentation rather than "name",
244 which could be confused to mean only the literal "NAME" section.
246 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:13:29 +1000
248 help2man (1.43.1) unstable; urgency=low
250 * Add explicit include syntax for prepending, replacing or appending to
251 generated output for a section (thanks to Daniil Baturin for the idea).
252 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
253 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
255 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 04 Jun 2013 22:22:39 +1000
257 help2man (1.42.1) unstable; urgency=low
259 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
260 * Update Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).
261 * Consistently strip path and/or libtool "lt-" prefix from any instance
262 of $program derived from --help or --version (thanks to Eric Shattow
263 for identifying the issue).
265 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 28 May 2013 21:49:20 +1000
267 help2man (1.41.2) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
270 * Update Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).
271 * Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rodolfo Ribeiro
274 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 14 Apr 2013 07:05:43 +1000
276 help2man (1.41.1) unstable; urgency=low
278 * Rename configure.in to .ac, and revise use of AC_INIT/AC_OUTPUT macros
279 to meet current autoconf guidelines.
280 * Add copyright headers to supporting files (GNU All-Permissive License).
281 * Fix section name comparisons ($sect is localised).
282 * Set filenames in italics (as suggested by Yann Soubeyrand).
283 * Suppress option/filename handling in EXAMPLES section.
285 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:24:33 +1100
287 help2man (1.40.13) unstable; urgency=low
289 * Add "Multi-Arch: foreign" control field to permit any installable
290 architecture to satisfy a build dependency when cross-building
291 packages (closes: #694586).
293 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 23:01:36 +1100
295 help2man (1.40.12) unstable; urgency=low
297 * Update Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).
298 * Fix updating of help2man.pot to occur only when help2man.PL is
299 changed, not help2man generated.
301 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:43:05 +1000
303 help2man (1.40.11) unstable; urgency=low
305 * Add Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).
307 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:29:43 +1000
309 help2man (1.40.10) unstable; urgency=low
311 * Update Greek translation (thanks to Savvas Radevic).
312 * Update Serbian translation (thanks to Мирослав Николић).
313 * Update German translation (thanks to Arun Persaud).
315 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2012 13:54:58 +1000
317 help2man (1.40.9) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Update Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
320 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
321 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
322 * Update German translation (thanks to Chris Leick, closes: #669564).
324 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:35:43 +1000
326 help2man (1.40.8) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot).
329 * Update Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
330 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
331 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
332 * Update Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
333 * Modify self-extracting scripts to output to a temporary file.
334 * Ensure that help2man exists before building manual pages (as reported
337 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 08 Apr 2012 23:10:20 +1000
339 help2man (1.40.7) unstable; urgency=low
341 * Update Greek translation (thanks to Savvas Radevic).
343 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:28:41 +1100
345 help2man (1.40.6) unstable; urgency=low
347 * Update years in debian/copyright.
348 * Fix FSF address in comments (thanks to Paul Eggert).
350 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:39:25 +1100
352 help2man (1.40.5) unstable; urgency=low
354 * Clean up some lintian warnings: build-targets, source format and
356 * Add Serbian translation (thanks to Miroslav Nikolic).
357 * Fix trivial translation changes due to additional copyright year.
358 * Minor fix to Italian translation.
360 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:50:50 +1100
362 help2man (1.40.4) unstable; urgency=low
364 * Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rodolfo Ribeiro
367 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:29:04 +1000
369 help2man (1.40.3) unstable; urgency=low
371 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
372 * Update links to git repository.
374 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:08:53 +1000
376 help2man (1.40.2) unstable; urgency=low
378 * Remove a superfluous period from texinfo doc.
379 * Change footnote about supported languages to a simple paragraph.
380 * Update Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
381 * Update Ukrainian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
382 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot).
383 * Update Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
384 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
385 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
387 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:04:45 +1000
389 help2man (1.40.1) unstable; urgency=low
391 * Update texinfo docs with recommendations kindly provided by Karl
393 * Document --libtool option.
394 * Fixup references to GNU Standards.
395 * Allow date format to be localised (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
396 * Add Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
398 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 29 May 2011 11:31:14 +1000
400 help2man (1.39.4) unstable; urgency=low
402 * Update Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
404 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 11 May 2011 22:58:55 +1000
406 help2man (1.39.3) unstable; urgency=low
408 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot, closes: #620250).
409 * Update the "Localised man pages" section of the Texinfo docs and note that
410 translations are now handled through the Translation Project.
411 * Update German translation (thanks to Chris Leick, closes: #624401).
412 * Minor update to German translation as suggested by Werner Lemberg in
413 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=26828512
415 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 01 May 2011 10:35:38 +1000
417 help2man (1.39.2) unstable; urgency=low
419 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
420 * Update Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
421 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
422 * Add Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
423 * Update Finnish translation (thanks to Tommi Vainikainen).
425 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:33:01 +1100
427 help2man (1.39.1) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Add option to remove `lt-' prefix for libtool programs (thanks to
431 * Add Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
432 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
433 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
435 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:15:44 +1100
437 help2man (1.38.4) unstable; urgency=low
439 * Add Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
440 * Don't double encode $date in the header.
441 * Use UTF-8 encoding for all manual pages.
442 * Add Greek translation (thanks to Michael Kotsarinis).
443 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot, closes: #590580).
444 * Update German translation (thanks to Helge Kreutzmann, closes: #590975).
445 * Use INSTALL_SCRIPT to install Perl script.
446 * Remove deprecated DH_COMPAT in debian/rules, adding debian/compat.
447 * Add ${misc:Depends}.
448 * Don't ignore errors from distclean.
449 * Fix Brazilian, Russian and Italian translations (placement of period was
450 causing text to be interpreted as a macro).
451 * Update standards version to 3.9.1.
452 * Add missing dependency on dpkg/install-info.
453 * Strip bindtextdomain.so preload.
454 * Install preload into $(libdir)/help2man.
456 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:43:36 +1100
458 help2man (1.38.3) unstable; urgency=low
460 * Apply patch from Mike Frysinger to allow "make install -j" to work.
462 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:17:17 +1000
464 help2man (1.38.2) unstable; urgency=low
466 * Update Finnish translation (thanks to Tommi Vainikainen).
467 * Add Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
469 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:00:04 +1000
471 help2man (1.38.1) unstable; urgency=low
473 * Add support for ENVIRONMENT and FILES sections (Sven Utcke).
474 * Ensure THANKS file includes translators.
475 * Fix handling of translated --no-discard-stderr instruction.
476 * Move tranlsated .h2m contents into .po files.
477 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
478 * Add Vietnamese translation (thanks to Clytie Siddall).
479 * Add some comments for translators.
481 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:59:32 +1000
483 help2man (1.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
485 * Fix typo in comment (Paul Eggert).
486 * Move cvs repository to git.
487 * Remove extraneous whitespace from debian/rules.
488 * Sanity check that version in help2man.PL matches debian/changelog.
489 * Handle automake directory with explicit version number.
490 * Integrate NMU, thanks Stefano.
491 * Add @datarootdir@ used by new autoconf.
492 * Add --no-discard-stderr option, suggest use if no stdout (closes: #138752).
493 * Add VCS fields to debian/control.
494 * Update copyright years.
495 * Anchor [section] and /pattern/ matches for include files so that
496 pathnames are not matched by the latter (Reuben Thomas).
497 * Add line breaks into bug reporting section (Jim Meyering).
498 * Clarify that the section output order contains optional items (Rueben).
499 * Match "Report <prog> bugs to ..." (Jim).
500 * Add Brazilian Portuguese translation (Rodolfo Ribeiro Gomes).
501 * Add German translation (Chris Leick, closes: #547154).
502 * Remove addition of default territory to locale (closes: #336298).
503 * Set locale via argument embedded in .h2m files.
504 * Select a reasonable configure default for --enable-nls.
505 * Parse program output and include files in the chartset given by --locale.
506 * Conditionally include gettext support at extraction, rather than run-time.
507 * Revise preload mechanism to not require preloadable libintl.
508 * Document recommended suffixes for --include files (Simon Josefsson).
510 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:35:45 +1100
512 help2man (1.36.4+nmu1) unstable; urgency=low
514 * Non-maintainer upload.
515 * Bump debhelper compatibility level to 5 (4 is deprecated now), move
516 the setting to debian/compat
517 * Add missing dependency on ${shlibs:Depends}, neede by the .so file
519 * Add --version-string option to support programs which are missing some
520 sort of --version option. Thanks to Lionel Elie Mamane for the patch.
523 -- Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:35:34 +0200
525 help2man (1.36.4) unstable; urgency=low
527 * Add sv translation from Daniel Nylander (closes: #349568).
529 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:42:19 +1100
531 help2man (1.36.3) unstable; urgency=low
533 * Updated fr translation from Denis Barbier (closes: #338995).
535 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:57:23 +1100
537 help2man (1.36.2) unstable; urgency=low
539 * Updated po translation from Jakub Bogusz.
540 * Makefile.in: $(srcdir) fix from Paul Eggert (closes: #335741).
542 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:46:16 +1000
544 help2man (1.36.1) unstable; urgency=low
546 * Add default territory to --locale option.
547 * Add Finnish translations (thanks to Tommi Vainikainen,
549 * Correctly update .pot and .po files (thanks to Thomas Huriaux,
552 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:38:59 +1000
554 help2man (1.35.2) unstable; urgency=low
556 * help2man.texi: spelling corrections (closes: #328671).
557 * debian/rules: configure --host on cross build (closes: #284701).
558 * debian/rules: set DH_COMPAT to 4.
560 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 4 Oct 2005 22:14:26 +1000
562 help2man (1.35.1) unstable; urgency=low
564 * Set program name to the first word of NAME paragraph in --include
567 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:06:58 +1100
569 help2man (1.34.2) unstable; urgency=low
571 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
573 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:28:29 +1100
575 help2man (1.34.1) unstable; urgency=low
577 * Escape all unescaped hyphens in output (closes: #263803).
578 * Convert parenthesised options, eg (-F).
579 * info section in SEE ALSO should use $program rather than $info_page
580 when referring to the program (thanks to Jim Mayering).
582 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 20 Nov 2004 09:54:13 +1100
584 help2man (1.33.1) unstable; urgency=low
586 * Allow "Usage" to be localised.
587 * Add Polish translations (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
588 * Add --enable-nls/--disable-nls configure option.
589 * Add back gettext and libgettext-perl build-depends (for configure).
590 * Check for Locale::gettext, gettext and usability of
591 preloadable_libintl.so.
593 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 00:14:25 +1000
595 help2man (1.32.2) unstable; urgency=low
597 * Build preload with -fPIC. Closes: #200632.
599 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jul 2003 07:57:56 +1000
601 help2man (1.32.1) unstable; urgency=low
603 * Set times on generated help2man so pages don't need to be
604 regenerated. Remove some associated build-deps.
606 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:13:42 +1000
608 help2man (1.31.2) unstable; urgency=low
610 * Fix quoting in generation of README file.
611 * Changed to arch=any due to inclusion of the LD_PRELOAD library.
613 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 22:59:28 +1000
615 help2man (1.31.1) unstable; urgency=low
617 * Oops, might help to actually *install* the message catalog.
618 * Check for errors writing output (suggested by Jim Meyering).
619 * Work around an odd regex bug under perl 5.6+ where /^ {0}(\S.*)\n/
620 doesn't match correctly.
622 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 20:20:02 +1000
624 help2man (1.30.1) unstable; urgency=low
626 * Add support for localised manual pages (closes #183671). Many
627 thanks to Denis Barbier for patches, advice and French
630 * Import RCS files to CVS.
631 * Convert to native Debian package.
633 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 8 Jul 2003 23:57:44 +1000
635 Sat Sep 7 02:13:05 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
637 * help2man.texi: Change @dircategory to "GNU programming support"
638 (Karl Berry). Change @setchapternewpage to "on" (Peter Moulder).
640 * Makefile.in: Added some more GNU standard targets (Peter
643 * Makefile.in, help2man.h2m: Rename help2man.aux to .h2m to avoid
646 * help2man.PL: version bump
648 Tue Jun 4 00:53:18 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
650 * help2man.PL: Expand copyright years (Paul Eggert). Provide
651 --info-page option (Bonzini).
653 * README.sh: hrm, different awk...
655 Tue Mar 19 23:52:37 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
657 * help2man.PL: Allow short and long options to be separated by
658 multiple spaces (Paul Eggert).
660 Sat Mar 9 23:54:01 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
662 * help2man.PL: version bump for doc changes
663 * help2man.texi: Add --help recommendations from Karl Berry (& co.)
665 Mon Dec 3 19:02:26 2001 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
667 * README.sh: Change email address
668 * configure.in: Require perl 5.005
669 * help2man.PL, help2man.texi: Add --source, --manual, --help-option
670 and --version-option; change email address; update copyright
672 Fri Dec 22 23:17:11 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
674 * help2man.PL: Process options given in the block before the first
675 section of an include file (suggested by Akim Demaille).
677 * help2man.aux: Document option parsing of initial include file
680 * help2man.texi: Use @pxref rather than @xref (Karl Berry).
681 Document option parsing of initial include file segment.
683 Tue Oct 31 17:07:30 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
685 * help2man.PL: Add protection for leading apostrophes (reported by
686 Matt Kraai). Don't zero-pad version.
688 Fri Jul 7 16:16:18 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
690 * README.sh: Add GNU prefix
691 * aclocal.m4: (add) autoconf support
692 * configure.in: Use AC_PROG_PERL from aclocal.m4 to find perl
693 (checks for perl and perl5)
695 * help2man.PL: Add GNU prefix, bug reporting address
696 * help2man.aux: Remove ozemail URL
697 * help2man.texi: Add GNU prefix, bug reporting address. Remove
700 Sun Apr 16 00:18:41 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
702 * Makefile.in: Add mkinstalldirs (as reqested by Dave Morrison,
703 Patrick Tullmann and Mo DeJong)
705 * help2man.PL: Version bump
707 Thu Dec 30 01:29:12 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
709 * help2man.texi: Correct typo
711 Thu Nov 11 03:16:25 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
713 * help2man.PL: Remove directories from synopsis
715 Wed Nov 3 17:39:50 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
717 * help2man.PL: Revise tagged paragraph matching *again*
719 Mon Nov 1 21:50:36 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
721 * help2man.PL: Allow multiple synopsis entries (w/- `or:'). Single
722 options may have argument w/- `='.
724 * help2man.texi: Add /pattern/
725 * configure.in: Add MAKEINFO/INSTALL_INFO
726 * Makefile.in: Install help2man.info
728 Wed Oct 27 16:02:00 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
730 * help2man.PL: Allow --include to be specified multiple times. Add
733 * help2man.aux: Document /pattern/ syntax
735 Mon Oct 25 22:36:16 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
737 * help2man.PL: Fix odd /^x|^y/ pre-5.005 perl bug. Split tagged
738 paragraph logic into option/other. Protect leading periods in
741 * THANKS to Roland Huebner for extensive bug report.
744 Tue Oct 12 16:25:23 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
746 * help2man.PL: Protect leading dots (1.14: not released)
748 * README.sh, help2man.aux: Add ftp.gnu.org URL
749 * help2man.PL: Allow fixed-pitch examples where prefixed by $,
752 Thu Sep 2 19:43:02 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
754 * help2man.PL: Fix typo in --help (Jim Meyering)
755 Escape backslashes (Andreas Schwab/Peter Moulder)
757 * help2man.texi: (add) Texinfo docs for help2man
759 Thu Jun 24 12:17:50 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
761 * help2man.PL: Add --section option (from Okuji Yoshinori). Fixes
762 to option handling and inter-paragraph breaks.
764 Thu Jun 17 19:45:08 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
766 * help2man.PL: Defer option formatting until after paragraph
767 continuation handling
769 * Makefile.in, configure.in: (add) autoconf support
770 * configure, makefile.dist: (remove) autoconf support
771 * README.in: Rename to README.sh (so as not to be confused with
774 Wed Mar 24 21:47:18 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
776 * help2man.PL: Improved tagged paragraph/continuation handling
778 Thu Feb 25 15:58:30 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
780 * README.in, help2man.aux: Add URL for distribution
781 * help2man.PL: Increment revision (changes to help2man.aux)
783 Thu Jan 21 14:46:48 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
785 * help2man.PL: Update copyright
786 * makefile.dist: Add help2man.1 to `all' target
788 Mon Jan 11 10:42:04 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
790 * help2man.PL: Handle version output with `Free' as well as `GNU'.
791 Missing backslash in initial comment (from Andreas Schwab)
793 Thu Dec 10 12:50:10 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
795 * help2man.PL: Experimental NLS version on main trunk (1.6-1.8)
796 pruned, rejoined branch 1.5.1.4 as 1.6
798 Cleaned up version format and removed François' name from
799 the code (at his suggestion).
801 * README.in: (add) Description for help2man
802 * configure: (add) Dodgy configure script for help2man
803 * help2man.aux: (add) Include file for help2man man page
804 * makefile.dist: (add) Dodgy makefile for help2man
806 Wed Nov 25 11:31:09 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
808 * help2man.PL: Join hyphenated lines in --version output
810 Tue Oct 20 20:44:46 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
812 * help2man.PL: Fix strftime locale (from Akim Demaille), add
815 Tue Oct 6 10:05:20 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
817 * help2man.PL: Remove --manhelp/oneliner mechanism
819 Sat Aug 29 04:50:02 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
821 * help2man.PL: Add --include/--opt-include options and Clark
822 Morgan's --manhelp/oneliner parsing. Merged changes from Karl
825 Thu Feb 26 10:38:34 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
827 * help2man.PL: Fix synopsis and revert `use version' to `require
828 version' as perl5.003 doesn't grok the former
830 Mon Feb 23 11:54:13 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
832 * help2man.PL: Add --output
834 Fri Feb 20 15:14:22 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
836 * help2man.PL: Made self-extracting .PL for portability; Some
837 enhancements to work with a2ps for Akim
839 Thu Feb 19 10:16:58 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
841 * help2man.PL: Fix DESCRIPTION mis-spell (from Akim Demaille)
843 Thu Jan 22 16:53:32 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
845 * help2man.PL: (add) Generate man page from a program's --version