1 help2man (1.48.3) unstable; urgency=medium
3 * Don't translate @documentencoding.
4 * Update Serbian translations (thanks to Мирослав Николић).
5 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
7 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 31 Mar 2021 23:19:01 +1100
9 help2man (1.48.2) unstable; urgency=medium
11 * Use debhelper dh command sequencer.
12 * Update Chinese (simplified) translation (thanks to Boyuan Yang).
14 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 03 Mar 2021 13:50:28 +1100
16 help2man (1.48.1) unstable; urgency=medium
18 * Update German, Spanish, Norwegian Bokmaal, Polish, Brazilian
19 Portuguese, Russian and Ukranian translations.
20 * Update German, Spanish, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese and Ukranian info
22 * Update NEWS and increment minor version.
24 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 06 Feb 2021 13:22:05 +1100
26 help2man (1.47.17) unstable; urgency=medium
28 * Add Serbian translation of info page (thanks to Мирослав Николић).
29 * Update Swedish translation (thanks to Sebastian Rasmussen).
30 * Update to debhelper v13.
31 * Update standards version to 4.5.1 (no changes).
32 * Update copyright years.
34 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 2021 22:27:16 +1100
36 help2man (1.47.16) unstable; urgency=medium
38 * Move table of contents to the top of the texi file so that it appears
39 in the correct location in the html page (thanks to Michael Siegel).
40 * Update debian/rules maint-prep warning about $version mismatch.
41 * Update help2man.html.PL for new GNU boilerplate.
43 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2020 23:21:58 +1000
45 help2man (1.47.15) unstable; urgency=medium
47 * Use the package name and version as the default for --source (was
49 * Support packages in version strings without the GNU or Free prefix.
50 * Allow an optional second dash to separate the package name from the
51 version for multi-word packages: "program - package name - version".
53 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:34:29 +1000
55 help2man (1.47.14) unstable; urgency=medium
57 * Revert --version parsing change from 1.47.13, which had unintended
58 consequences for some version strings. In short, it is not possible
59 to unambiguously determine the split between the package/program name
60 and version in some of the supported formats. Multi-word package
61 names are supported only in the "program (GNU package) version"
62 variant (closes: #958345).
64 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:58:17 +1000
66 help2man (1.47.13) unstable; urgency=medium
68 * Merge change from Po-Chuan Hsieh to suppress creation of an empty
69 pkglibdir when nls is disabled.
70 * Remove install_dirs target entirely, add explicit $(MKINSTALLDIRS)
71 before each $(INSTALL_{DATA,PROGRAM}) call.
72 * Update parsing of --version to allow multi-word programs when
73 constructing the placeholder NAME paragraph (thanks to Jarno Suni).
75 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2020 22:05:41 +1100
77 help2man (1.47.12) unstable; urgency=medium
79 * Fix minor error in po/es.po .
80 * Fix ordering of "other" sections in manual page (as reported by Reuben
83 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 04 Jan 2020 17:02:33 +1100
85 help2man (1.47.11) unstable; urgency=medium
87 * Adjust maintainer sanity check again, this time to handle binary NMUs
90 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 12 Aug 2019 22:52:07 +1000
92 help2man (1.47.10) unstable; urgency=medium
94 * Change maintainer sanity check in debian/rules to use the contents
95 of README rather than the mtime, which may be have been modified by
96 dpkg-source (closes: #925136).
98 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 23 Mar 2019 12:18:57 +1100
100 help2man (1.47.9) unstable; urgency=medium
102 * Add Tamil translation (thanks to Arun Isaac).
104 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 18 Mar 2019 19:10:35 +1100
106 help2man (1.47.8) unstable; urgency=medium
108 * Use $(DEB_VERSION) from pkg-info.mk [lintian].
109 * Fix git repository link in generated README.
110 * Update debian/copyright to machine readable format [lintian].
111 * Update standards version to 4.2.1 (no changes).
113 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 13 Oct 2018 15:16:45 +1100
115 help2man (1.47.7) unstable; urgency=medium
117 * Remove trailing spaces from changelog [lintian].
118 * Update years in debian/copyright.
119 * Reference version-specific /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3 in
120 copyright rather than the unversioned GPL symlink [lintian].
121 * Add Swedish translation of info page (thanks to Sebastian Rasmussen).
123 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 23 Sep 2018 15:01:18 +1000
125 help2man (1.47.6) unstable; urgency=medium
127 * Update to debhelper v11.
128 * Move repository to salsa.debian.org.
129 * Update Vcs-Git/Vcs-Browser.
130 * Update standards version to 4.1.3:
131 + update config.{guess,sub} at build time
132 * Add Brazilian Portuguese translation of info page (thanks to Rafael
134 * Update Hungarian translation (thanks to Balázs Úr).
135 * Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rafael Fontenelle).
137 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 28 Feb 2018 22:32:32 +1100
139 help2man (1.47.5) unstable; urgency=medium
141 * Refresh Brazilian Portuguese translation from translation project copy
142 (trivial date change).
143 * Update Swedish translation (thanks to Sebastian Rasmussen).
144 * Use POSIX compliant TZ when setting UTC (thanks to Paul Eggert).
145 * Update copyright years.
147 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 23 Sep 2017 13:38:28 +1000
149 help2man (1.47.4) unstable; urgency=medium
151 * Update Serbian translation (thanks to Мирослав Николић).
152 * Add Chinese (simplified) translation of info page (thanks to Mingye Wang).
153 * Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rafael Fontenelle).
154 * Reduce the minimum translation to 60% for info files.
155 * Extract version from dpkg-parsechangelog using the new flag, rather
157 * Add hardening flags via DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS.
158 * Use secure VCS URIs.
159 * Update standards version to 3.9.8.
161 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 09 May 2016 17:20:39 +1000
163 help2man (1.47.3) unstable; urgency=medium
165 * Filter more untranslatable strings from help2man-texi.pot, and add a
166 note to translators about translation of cross-references.
168 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2015 21:41:15 +1100
170 help2man (1.47.2) unstable; urgency=medium
172 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
173 * Add Chinese (simplified) translation (thanks to Mingye Wang).
175 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 11 Sep 2015 21:25:08 +1000
177 help2man (1.47.1) unstable; urgency=medium
179 * Set document language for localised info pages.
180 * Update German translations (thanks to Mario Blättermann).
181 * Update Ukranian translations (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
182 * Update French translations (thanks to David Prévot).
183 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
184 * Update Norwegian Bokmaal translation (thanks to Johnny A. Solbu).
185 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
186 * Update Danish translation (thanks to Joe Hansen).
187 * Update Polish translations (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
188 * Update Spanish translation and add translation of the info page
189 (thanks to Antonio Ceballos).
190 * Add support for reproducible builds by using $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH as the
191 date for the generated pages (closes: #787444).
193 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jun 2015 23:06:35 +1000
195 help2man (1.46.6) unstable; urgency=medium
197 * Add Danish translation (thanks to Joe Hansen).
198 * Update Finnish translation (thanks to Jorma Karvonen).
200 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 26 Apr 2015 13:52:49 +1000
202 help2man (1.46.5) unstable; urgency=medium
204 * Fix a problem with LC_ALL being imported twice with different
205 prototypes from POSIX and Locale::gettext (thanks to Gavin Smith for
207 * Update copyright years.
209 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:34:50 +1100
211 help2man (1.46.4) unstable; urgency=medium
213 * Include architecture.mk and buildflags.mk into rules to replace the
214 multiple calls to dpkg-architecture and to pick up the correct
216 * Add $(LDFLAGS) when building preload to pick up -z relro (see
217 https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening).
218 * Minor correction to Norwegian Bokmaal translation.
219 * Minor correction to Brazilian Portuguese translation.
220 * Escape dashes in --name flag for groff (see lintian tag:
221 hyphen-used-as-minus-sign).
222 * Fix example using AM_MISSING_PROG in documentation: this macro no
223 longer requires the third argument.
225 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:08:17 +1100
227 help2man (1.46.3) unstable; urgency=medium
229 * Update Serbian translation (thanks to Мирослав Николић).
230 * Add Spanish translation (thanks to Antonio Ceballos).
232 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2014 19:01:16 +1000
234 help2man (1.46.2) unstable; urgency=medium
236 * Update French translation, and add translation of info page (thanks to
239 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 06 Sep 2014 14:17:45 +1000
241 help2man (1.46.1) unstable; urgency=medium
243 * Apply texinfo patch from Mario Blätterman.
244 * Rename aclocal macros with LOCAL_ prefix.
245 * Include "missing" program from automake in distribution.
246 * Add LOCAL_PROG_OR_MISSING macro.
247 * Add German translation of info page (thanks to Mario Blätterman).
248 * Change reference to standards to avoid spurious comma.
249 * Merge updates into texinfo translations.
250 * Update German translation (thanks to Mario Blättermann).
251 * Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rafael Ferreira).
252 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
253 * Update Ukranian translation, and add translation of info page (thanks
255 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
256 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot).
257 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
258 * Add Hungarian translation (thanks to Balázs Úr).
259 * Update Polish translation, and add translation of info page (thanks to
261 * Move automake helper scripts into a build-aux sub-directory.
262 * Add a helper script to locate files in $VPATH.
263 * Add helper scripts to clean up texinfo translations:
264 + fixup-tex-pot: remove entries from template which should not be
266 + fixup-texi-trans: add the correct path for install-info and correct the
267 alignment of the main menu.
268 * Add Norwegian Bokmaal translation (thanks to Johnny A. Solbu).
270 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jul 2014 23:25:48 +1000
272 help2man (1.45.1) unstable; urgency=low
274 * Skip additional blank lines following sections, and provide an
275 explicit method of adding sections (thanks to Mischa Williamson).
276 * Improve handling of tagged paragraphs when the body is on a following
277 line (thanks to Brian Campbell).
278 * Add escapes to adjust spacing of italic text at roman/italic
279 boundaries (thanks to Bjarni Ingi Gislason, closes: #742289)
281 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:45:24 +1100
283 help2man (1.44.1) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Perform shell word splitting on option lines in include files.
286 * Update Serbian translation (thanks to Мирослав Николић).
287 * Update German translation (thanks to Mario Blättermann).
288 * Update copyright years.
289 * Change distribution filename in README to help2man-VERSION.tar.xz
290 * Fix gitweb URL in README.
292 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 02 Feb 2014 15:07:59 +1100
294 help2man (1.43.3) unstable; urgency=low
296 * Update Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
297 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
298 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
299 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
300 * Update Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
301 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
302 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot).
304 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 08 Jun 2013 22:31:52 +1000
306 help2man (1.43.2) unstable; urgency=low
308 * Use the generic term "section" in the documentation rather than "name",
309 which could be confused to mean only the literal "NAME" section.
311 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:13:29 +1000
313 help2man (1.43.1) unstable; urgency=low
315 * Add explicit include syntax for prepending, replacing or appending to
316 generated output for a section (thanks to Daniil Baturin for the idea).
317 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
318 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
320 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 04 Jun 2013 22:22:39 +1000
322 help2man (1.42.1) unstable; urgency=low
324 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
325 * Update Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).
326 * Consistently strip path and/or libtool "lt-" prefix from any instance
327 of $program derived from --help or --version (thanks to Eric Shattow
328 for identifying the issue).
330 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 28 May 2013 21:49:20 +1000
332 help2man (1.41.2) unstable; urgency=low
334 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
335 * Update Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).
336 * Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rodolfo Ribeiro
339 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 14 Apr 2013 07:05:43 +1000
341 help2man (1.41.1) unstable; urgency=low
343 * Rename configure.in to .ac, and revise use of AC_INIT/AC_OUTPUT macros
344 to meet current autoconf guidelines.
345 * Add copyright headers to supporting files (GNU All-Permissive License).
346 * Fix section name comparisons ($sect is localised).
347 * Set filenames in italics (as suggested by Yann Soubeyrand).
348 * Suppress option/filename handling in EXAMPLES section.
350 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:24:33 +1100
352 help2man (1.40.13) unstable; urgency=low
354 * Add "Multi-Arch: foreign" control field to permit any installable
355 architecture to satisfy a build dependency when cross-building
356 packages (closes: #694586).
358 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 23:01:36 +1100
360 help2man (1.40.12) unstable; urgency=low
362 * Update Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).
363 * Fix updating of help2man.pot to occur only when help2man.PL is
364 changed, not help2man generated.
366 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:43:05 +1000
368 help2man (1.40.11) unstable; urgency=low
370 * Add Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).
372 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:29:43 +1000
374 help2man (1.40.10) unstable; urgency=low
376 * Update Greek translation (thanks to Savvas Radevic).
377 * Update Serbian translation (thanks to Мирослав Николић).
378 * Update German translation (thanks to Arun Persaud).
380 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2012 13:54:58 +1000
382 help2man (1.40.9) unstable; urgency=low
384 * Update Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
385 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
386 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
387 * Update German translation (thanks to Chris Leick, closes: #669564).
389 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:35:43 +1000
391 help2man (1.40.8) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot).
394 * Update Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
395 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
396 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
397 * Update Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
398 * Modify self-extracting scripts to output to a temporary file.
399 * Ensure that help2man exists before building manual pages (as reported
402 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 08 Apr 2012 23:10:20 +1000
404 help2man (1.40.7) unstable; urgency=low
406 * Update Greek translation (thanks to Savvas Radevic).
408 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:28:41 +1100
410 help2man (1.40.6) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Update years in debian/copyright.
413 * Fix FSF address in comments (thanks to Paul Eggert).
415 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:39:25 +1100
417 help2man (1.40.5) unstable; urgency=low
419 * Clean up some lintian warnings: build-targets, source format and
421 * Add Serbian translation (thanks to Miroslav Nikolic).
422 * Fix trivial translation changes due to additional copyright year.
423 * Minor fix to Italian translation.
425 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:50:50 +1100
427 help2man (1.40.4) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rodolfo Ribeiro
432 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:29:04 +1000
434 help2man (1.40.3) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
437 * Update links to git repository.
439 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:08:53 +1000
441 help2man (1.40.2) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Remove a superfluous period from texinfo doc.
444 * Change footnote about supported languages to a simple paragraph.
445 * Update Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
446 * Update Ukrainian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
447 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot).
448 * Update Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
449 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
450 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
452 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:04:45 +1000
454 help2man (1.40.1) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Update texinfo docs with recommendations kindly provided by Karl
458 * Document --libtool option.
459 * Fixup references to GNU Standards.
460 * Allow date format to be localised (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
461 * Add Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
463 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 29 May 2011 11:31:14 +1000
465 help2man (1.39.4) unstable; urgency=low
467 * Update Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
469 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 11 May 2011 22:58:55 +1000
471 help2man (1.39.3) unstable; urgency=low
473 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot, closes: #620250).
474 * Update the "Localised man pages" section of the Texinfo docs and note that
475 translations are now handled through the Translation Project.
476 * Update German translation (thanks to Chris Leick, closes: #624401).
477 * Minor update to German translation as suggested by Werner Lemberg in
478 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=26828512
480 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 01 May 2011 10:35:38 +1000
482 help2man (1.39.2) unstable; urgency=low
484 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
485 * Update Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
486 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
487 * Add Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
488 * Update Finnish translation (thanks to Tommi Vainikainen).
490 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:33:01 +1100
492 help2man (1.39.1) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Add option to remove `lt-' prefix for libtool programs (thanks to
496 * Add Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
497 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
498 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
500 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:15:44 +1100
502 help2man (1.38.4) unstable; urgency=low
504 * Add Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
505 * Don't double encode $date in the header.
506 * Use UTF-8 encoding for all manual pages.
507 * Add Greek translation (thanks to Michael Kotsarinis).
508 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot, closes: #590580).
509 * Update German translation (thanks to Helge Kreutzmann, closes: #590975).
510 * Use INSTALL_SCRIPT to install Perl script.
511 * Remove deprecated DH_COMPAT in debian/rules, adding debian/compat.
512 * Add ${misc:Depends}.
513 * Don't ignore errors from distclean.
514 * Fix Brazilian, Russian and Italian translations (placement of period was
515 causing text to be interpreted as a macro).
516 * Update standards version to 3.9.1.
517 * Add missing dependency on dpkg/install-info.
518 * Strip bindtextdomain.so preload.
519 * Install preload into $(libdir)/help2man.
521 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:43:36 +1100
523 help2man (1.38.3) unstable; urgency=low
525 * Apply patch from Mike Frysinger to allow "make install -j" to work.
527 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:17:17 +1000
529 help2man (1.38.2) unstable; urgency=low
531 * Update Finnish translation (thanks to Tommi Vainikainen).
532 * Add Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
534 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:00:04 +1000
536 help2man (1.38.1) unstable; urgency=low
538 * Add support for ENVIRONMENT and FILES sections (Sven Utcke).
539 * Ensure THANKS file includes translators.
540 * Fix handling of translated --no-discard-stderr instruction.
541 * Move tranlsated .h2m contents into .po files.
542 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
543 * Add Vietnamese translation (thanks to Clytie Siddall).
544 * Add some comments for translators.
546 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:59:32 +1000
548 help2man (1.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
550 * Fix typo in comment (Paul Eggert).
551 * Move cvs repository to git.
552 * Remove extraneous whitespace from debian/rules.
553 * Sanity check that version in help2man.PL matches debian/changelog.
554 * Handle automake directory with explicit version number.
555 * Integrate NMU, thanks Stefano.
556 * Add @datarootdir@ used by new autoconf.
557 * Add --no-discard-stderr option, suggest use if no stdout (closes: #138752).
558 * Add VCS fields to debian/control.
559 * Update copyright years.
560 * Anchor [section] and /pattern/ matches for include files so that
561 pathnames are not matched by the latter (Reuben Thomas).
562 * Add line breaks into bug reporting section (Jim Meyering).
563 * Clarify that the section output order contains optional items (Rueben).
564 * Match "Report <prog> bugs to ..." (Jim).
565 * Add Brazilian Portuguese translation (Rodolfo Ribeiro Gomes).
566 * Add German translation (Chris Leick, closes: #547154).
567 * Remove addition of default territory to locale (closes: #336298).
568 * Set locale via argument embedded in .h2m files.
569 * Select a reasonable configure default for --enable-nls.
570 * Parse program output and include files in the chartset given by --locale.
571 * Conditionally include gettext support at extraction, rather than run-time.
572 * Revise preload mechanism to not require preloadable libintl.
573 * Document recommended suffixes for --include files (Simon Josefsson).
575 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:35:45 +1100
577 help2man (1.36.4+nmu1) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Non-maintainer upload.
580 * Bump debhelper compatibility level to 5 (4 is deprecated now), move
581 the setting to debian/compat
582 * Add missing dependency on ${shlibs:Depends}, neede by the .so file
584 * Add --version-string option to support programs which are missing some
585 sort of --version option. Thanks to Lionel Elie Mamane for the patch.
588 -- Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:35:34 +0200
590 help2man (1.36.4) unstable; urgency=low
592 * Add sv translation from Daniel Nylander (closes: #349568).
594 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:42:19 +1100
596 help2man (1.36.3) unstable; urgency=low
598 * Updated fr translation from Denis Barbier (closes: #338995).
600 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:57:23 +1100
602 help2man (1.36.2) unstable; urgency=low
604 * Updated po translation from Jakub Bogusz.
605 * Makefile.in: $(srcdir) fix from Paul Eggert (closes: #335741).
607 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:46:16 +1000
609 help2man (1.36.1) unstable; urgency=low
611 * Add default territory to --locale option.
612 * Add Finnish translations (thanks to Tommi Vainikainen,
614 * Correctly update .pot and .po files (thanks to Thomas Huriaux,
617 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:38:59 +1000
619 help2man (1.35.2) unstable; urgency=low
621 * help2man.texi: spelling corrections (closes: #328671).
622 * debian/rules: configure --host on cross build (closes: #284701).
623 * debian/rules: set DH_COMPAT to 4.
625 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 4 Oct 2005 22:14:26 +1000
627 help2man (1.35.1) unstable; urgency=low
629 * Set program name to the first word of NAME paragraph in --include
632 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:06:58 +1100
634 help2man (1.34.2) unstable; urgency=low
636 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
638 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:28:29 +1100
640 help2man (1.34.1) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Escape all unescaped hyphens in output (closes: #263803).
643 * Convert parenthesised options, eg (-F).
644 * info section in SEE ALSO should use $program rather than $info_page
645 when referring to the program (thanks to Jim Mayering).
647 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 20 Nov 2004 09:54:13 +1100
649 help2man (1.33.1) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Allow "Usage" to be localised.
652 * Add Polish translations (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
653 * Add --enable-nls/--disable-nls configure option.
654 * Add back gettext and libgettext-perl build-depends (for configure).
655 * Check for Locale::gettext, gettext and usability of
656 preloadable_libintl.so.
658 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 00:14:25 +1000
660 help2man (1.32.2) unstable; urgency=low
662 * Build preload with -fPIC. Closes: #200632.
664 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jul 2003 07:57:56 +1000
666 help2man (1.32.1) unstable; urgency=low
668 * Set times on generated help2man so pages don't need to be
669 regenerated. Remove some associated build-deps.
671 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:13:42 +1000
673 help2man (1.31.2) unstable; urgency=low
675 * Fix quoting in generation of README file.
676 * Changed to arch=any due to inclusion of the LD_PRELOAD library.
678 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 22:59:28 +1000
680 help2man (1.31.1) unstable; urgency=low
682 * Oops, might help to actually *install* the message catalog.
683 * Check for errors writing output (suggested by Jim Meyering).
684 * Work around an odd regex bug under perl 5.6+ where /^ {0}(\S.*)\n/
685 doesn't match correctly.
687 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 20:20:02 +1000
689 help2man (1.30.1) unstable; urgency=low
691 * Add support for localised manual pages (closes #183671). Many
692 thanks to Denis Barbier for patches, advice and French
695 * Import RCS files to CVS.
696 * Convert to native Debian package.
698 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 8 Jul 2003 23:57:44 +1000
700 Sat Sep 7 02:13:05 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
702 * help2man.texi: Change @dircategory to "GNU programming support"
703 (Karl Berry). Change @setchapternewpage to "on" (Peter Moulder).
705 * Makefile.in: Added some more GNU standard targets (Peter
708 * Makefile.in, help2man.h2m: Rename help2man.aux to .h2m to avoid
711 * help2man.PL: version bump
713 Tue Jun 4 00:53:18 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
715 * help2man.PL: Expand copyright years (Paul Eggert). Provide
716 --info-page option (Bonzini).
718 * README.sh: hrm, different awk...
720 Tue Mar 19 23:52:37 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
722 * help2man.PL: Allow short and long options to be separated by
723 multiple spaces (Paul Eggert).
725 Sat Mar 9 23:54:01 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
727 * help2man.PL: version bump for doc changes
728 * help2man.texi: Add --help recommendations from Karl Berry (& co.)
730 Mon Dec 3 19:02:26 2001 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
732 * README.sh: Change email address
733 * configure.in: Require perl 5.005
734 * help2man.PL, help2man.texi: Add --source, --manual, --help-option
735 and --version-option; change email address; update copyright
737 Fri Dec 22 23:17:11 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
739 * help2man.PL: Process options given in the block before the first
740 section of an include file (suggested by Akim Demaille).
742 * help2man.aux: Document option parsing of initial include file
745 * help2man.texi: Use @pxref rather than @xref (Karl Berry).
746 Document option parsing of initial include file segment.
748 Tue Oct 31 17:07:30 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
750 * help2man.PL: Add protection for leading apostrophes (reported by
751 Matt Kraai). Don't zero-pad version.
753 Fri Jul 7 16:16:18 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
755 * README.sh: Add GNU prefix
756 * aclocal.m4: (add) autoconf support
757 * configure.in: Use AC_PROG_PERL from aclocal.m4 to find perl
758 (checks for perl and perl5)
760 * help2man.PL: Add GNU prefix, bug reporting address
761 * help2man.aux: Remove ozemail URL
762 * help2man.texi: Add GNU prefix, bug reporting address. Remove
765 Sun Apr 16 00:18:41 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
767 * Makefile.in: Add mkinstalldirs (as reqested by Dave Morrison,
768 Patrick Tullmann and Mo DeJong)
770 * help2man.PL: Version bump
772 Thu Dec 30 01:29:12 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
774 * help2man.texi: Correct typo
776 Thu Nov 11 03:16:25 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
778 * help2man.PL: Remove directories from synopsis
780 Wed Nov 3 17:39:50 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
782 * help2man.PL: Revise tagged paragraph matching *again*
784 Mon Nov 1 21:50:36 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
786 * help2man.PL: Allow multiple synopsis entries (w/- `or:'). Single
787 options may have argument w/- `='.
789 * help2man.texi: Add /pattern/
790 * configure.in: Add MAKEINFO/INSTALL_INFO
791 * Makefile.in: Install help2man.info
793 Wed Oct 27 16:02:00 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
795 * help2man.PL: Allow --include to be specified multiple times. Add
798 * help2man.aux: Document /pattern/ syntax
800 Mon Oct 25 22:36:16 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
802 * help2man.PL: Fix odd /^x|^y/ pre-5.005 perl bug. Split tagged
803 paragraph logic into option/other. Protect leading periods in
806 * THANKS to Roland Huebner for extensive bug report.
809 Tue Oct 12 16:25:23 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
811 * help2man.PL: Protect leading dots (1.14: not released)
813 * README.sh, help2man.aux: Add ftp.gnu.org URL
814 * help2man.PL: Allow fixed-pitch examples where prefixed by $,
817 Thu Sep 2 19:43:02 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
819 * help2man.PL: Fix typo in --help (Jim Meyering)
820 Escape backslashes (Andreas Schwab/Peter Moulder)
822 * help2man.texi: (add) Texinfo docs for help2man
824 Thu Jun 24 12:17:50 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
826 * help2man.PL: Add --section option (from Okuji Yoshinori). Fixes
827 to option handling and inter-paragraph breaks.
829 Thu Jun 17 19:45:08 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
831 * help2man.PL: Defer option formatting until after paragraph
832 continuation handling
834 * Makefile.in, configure.in: (add) autoconf support
835 * configure, makefile.dist: (remove) autoconf support
836 * README.in: Rename to README.sh (so as not to be confused with
839 Wed Mar 24 21:47:18 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
841 * help2man.PL: Improved tagged paragraph/continuation handling
843 Thu Feb 25 15:58:30 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
845 * README.in, help2man.aux: Add URL for distribution
846 * help2man.PL: Increment revision (changes to help2man.aux)
848 Thu Jan 21 14:46:48 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
850 * help2man.PL: Update copyright
851 * makefile.dist: Add help2man.1 to `all' target
853 Mon Jan 11 10:42:04 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
855 * help2man.PL: Handle version output with `Free' as well as `GNU'.
856 Missing backslash in initial comment (from Andreas Schwab)
858 Thu Dec 10 12:50:10 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
860 * help2man.PL: Experimental NLS version on main trunk (1.6-1.8)
861 pruned, rejoined branch 1.5.1.4 as 1.6
863 Cleaned up version format and removed François' name from
864 the code (at his suggestion).
866 * README.in: (add) Description for help2man
867 * configure: (add) Dodgy configure script for help2man
868 * help2man.aux: (add) Include file for help2man man page
869 * makefile.dist: (add) Dodgy makefile for help2man
871 Wed Nov 25 11:31:09 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
873 * help2man.PL: Join hyphenated lines in --version output
875 Tue Oct 20 20:44:46 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
877 * help2man.PL: Fix strftime locale (from Akim Demaille), add
880 Tue Oct 6 10:05:20 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
882 * help2man.PL: Remove --manhelp/oneliner mechanism
884 Sat Aug 29 04:50:02 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
886 * help2man.PL: Add --include/--opt-include options and Clark
887 Morgan's --manhelp/oneliner parsing. Merged changes from Karl
890 Thu Feb 26 10:38:34 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
892 * help2man.PL: Fix synopsis and revert `use version' to `require
893 version' as perl5.003 doesn't grok the former
895 Mon Feb 23 11:54:13 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
897 * help2man.PL: Add --output
899 Fri Feb 20 15:14:22 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
901 * help2man.PL: Made self-extracting .PL for portability; Some
902 enhancements to work with a2ps for Akim
904 Thu Feb 19 10:16:58 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
906 * help2man.PL: Fix DESCRIPTION mis-spell (from Akim Demaille)
908 Thu Jan 22 16:53:32 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
910 * help2man.PL: (add) Generate man page from a program's --version