1 help2man (1.48.4) unstable; urgency=medium
3 * Drop dependency on dpkg/install-info (not required since policy
5 * Fix typo in comment and update some URLs to use https.
6 * Update Swedish translations (thanks to Anders Jonsson).
8 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 08 Aug 2021 14:58:52 +1000
10 help2man (1.48.3) unstable; urgency=medium
12 * Don't translate @documentencoding.
13 * Update Serbian translations (thanks to Мирослав Николић).
14 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
16 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 31 Mar 2021 23:19:01 +1100
18 help2man (1.48.2) unstable; urgency=medium
20 * Use debhelper dh command sequencer.
21 * Update Chinese (simplified) translation (thanks to Boyuan Yang).
23 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 03 Mar 2021 13:50:28 +1100
25 help2man (1.48.1) unstable; urgency=medium
27 * Update German, Spanish, Norwegian Bokmaal, Polish, Brazilian
28 Portuguese, Russian and Ukranian translations.
29 * Update German, Spanish, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese and Ukranian info
31 * Update NEWS and increment minor version.
33 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 06 Feb 2021 13:22:05 +1100
35 help2man (1.47.17) unstable; urgency=medium
37 * Add Serbian translation of info page (thanks to Мирослав Николић).
38 * Update Swedish translation (thanks to Sebastian Rasmussen).
39 * Update to debhelper v13.
40 * Update standards version to 4.5.1 (no changes).
41 * Update copyright years.
43 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 2021 22:27:16 +1100
45 help2man (1.47.16) unstable; urgency=medium
47 * Move table of contents to the top of the texi file so that it appears
48 in the correct location in the html page (thanks to Michael Siegel).
49 * Update debian/rules maint-prep warning about $version mismatch.
50 * Update help2man.html.PL for new GNU boilerplate.
52 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2020 23:21:58 +1000
54 help2man (1.47.15) unstable; urgency=medium
56 * Use the package name and version as the default for --source (was
58 * Support packages in version strings without the GNU or Free prefix.
59 * Allow an optional second dash to separate the package name from the
60 version for multi-word packages: "program - package name - version".
62 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:34:29 +1000
64 help2man (1.47.14) unstable; urgency=medium
66 * Revert --version parsing change from 1.47.13, which had unintended
67 consequences for some version strings. In short, it is not possible
68 to unambiguously determine the split between the package/program name
69 and version in some of the supported formats. Multi-word package
70 names are supported only in the "program (GNU package) version"
71 variant (closes: #958345).
73 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:58:17 +1000
75 help2man (1.47.13) unstable; urgency=medium
77 * Merge change from Po-Chuan Hsieh to suppress creation of an empty
78 pkglibdir when nls is disabled.
79 * Remove install_dirs target entirely, add explicit $(MKINSTALLDIRS)
80 before each $(INSTALL_{DATA,PROGRAM}) call.
81 * Update parsing of --version to allow multi-word programs when
82 constructing the placeholder NAME paragraph (thanks to Jarno Suni).
84 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2020 22:05:41 +1100
86 help2man (1.47.12) unstable; urgency=medium
88 * Fix minor error in po/es.po .
89 * Fix ordering of "other" sections in manual page (as reported by Reuben
92 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 04 Jan 2020 17:02:33 +1100
94 help2man (1.47.11) unstable; urgency=medium
96 * Adjust maintainer sanity check again, this time to handle binary NMUs
99 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 12 Aug 2019 22:52:07 +1000
101 help2man (1.47.10) unstable; urgency=medium
103 * Change maintainer sanity check in debian/rules to use the contents
104 of README rather than the mtime, which may be have been modified by
105 dpkg-source (closes: #925136).
107 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 23 Mar 2019 12:18:57 +1100
109 help2man (1.47.9) unstable; urgency=medium
111 * Add Tamil translation (thanks to Arun Isaac).
113 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 18 Mar 2019 19:10:35 +1100
115 help2man (1.47.8) unstable; urgency=medium
117 * Use $(DEB_VERSION) from pkg-info.mk [lintian].
118 * Fix git repository link in generated README.
119 * Update debian/copyright to machine readable format [lintian].
120 * Update standards version to 4.2.1 (no changes).
122 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 13 Oct 2018 15:16:45 +1100
124 help2man (1.47.7) unstable; urgency=medium
126 * Remove trailing spaces from changelog [lintian].
127 * Update years in debian/copyright.
128 * Reference version-specific /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3 in
129 copyright rather than the unversioned GPL symlink [lintian].
130 * Add Swedish translation of info page (thanks to Sebastian Rasmussen).
132 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 23 Sep 2018 15:01:18 +1000
134 help2man (1.47.6) unstable; urgency=medium
136 * Update to debhelper v11.
137 * Move repository to salsa.debian.org.
138 * Update Vcs-Git/Vcs-Browser.
139 * Update standards version to 4.1.3:
140 + update config.{guess,sub} at build time
141 * Add Brazilian Portuguese translation of info page (thanks to Rafael
143 * Update Hungarian translation (thanks to Balázs Úr).
144 * Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rafael Fontenelle).
146 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 28 Feb 2018 22:32:32 +1100
148 help2man (1.47.5) unstable; urgency=medium
150 * Refresh Brazilian Portuguese translation from translation project copy
151 (trivial date change).
152 * Update Swedish translation (thanks to Sebastian Rasmussen).
153 * Use POSIX compliant TZ when setting UTC (thanks to Paul Eggert).
154 * Update copyright years.
156 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 23 Sep 2017 13:38:28 +1000
158 help2man (1.47.4) unstable; urgency=medium
160 * Update Serbian translation (thanks to Мирослав Николић).
161 * Add Chinese (simplified) translation of info page (thanks to Mingye Wang).
162 * Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rafael Fontenelle).
163 * Reduce the minimum translation to 60% for info files.
164 * Extract version from dpkg-parsechangelog using the new flag, rather
166 * Add hardening flags via DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS.
167 * Use secure VCS URIs.
168 * Update standards version to 3.9.8.
170 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 09 May 2016 17:20:39 +1000
172 help2man (1.47.3) unstable; urgency=medium
174 * Filter more untranslatable strings from help2man-texi.pot, and add a
175 note to translators about translation of cross-references.
177 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2015 21:41:15 +1100
179 help2man (1.47.2) unstable; urgency=medium
181 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
182 * Add Chinese (simplified) translation (thanks to Mingye Wang).
184 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 11 Sep 2015 21:25:08 +1000
186 help2man (1.47.1) unstable; urgency=medium
188 * Set document language for localised info pages.
189 * Update German translations (thanks to Mario Blättermann).
190 * Update Ukranian translations (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
191 * Update French translations (thanks to David Prévot).
192 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
193 * Update Norwegian Bokmaal translation (thanks to Johnny A. Solbu).
194 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
195 * Update Danish translation (thanks to Joe Hansen).
196 * Update Polish translations (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
197 * Update Spanish translation and add translation of the info page
198 (thanks to Antonio Ceballos).
199 * Add support for reproducible builds by using $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH as the
200 date for the generated pages (closes: #787444).
202 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jun 2015 23:06:35 +1000
204 help2man (1.46.6) unstable; urgency=medium
206 * Add Danish translation (thanks to Joe Hansen).
207 * Update Finnish translation (thanks to Jorma Karvonen).
209 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 26 Apr 2015 13:52:49 +1000
211 help2man (1.46.5) unstable; urgency=medium
213 * Fix a problem with LC_ALL being imported twice with different
214 prototypes from POSIX and Locale::gettext (thanks to Gavin Smith for
216 * Update copyright years.
218 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:34:50 +1100
220 help2man (1.46.4) unstable; urgency=medium
222 * Include architecture.mk and buildflags.mk into rules to replace the
223 multiple calls to dpkg-architecture and to pick up the correct
225 * Add $(LDFLAGS) when building preload to pick up -z relro (see
226 https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening).
227 * Minor correction to Norwegian Bokmaal translation.
228 * Minor correction to Brazilian Portuguese translation.
229 * Escape dashes in --name flag for groff (see lintian tag:
230 hyphen-used-as-minus-sign).
231 * Fix example using AM_MISSING_PROG in documentation: this macro no
232 longer requires the third argument.
234 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:08:17 +1100
236 help2man (1.46.3) unstable; urgency=medium
238 * Update Serbian translation (thanks to Мирослав Николић).
239 * Add Spanish translation (thanks to Antonio Ceballos).
241 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2014 19:01:16 +1000
243 help2man (1.46.2) unstable; urgency=medium
245 * Update French translation, and add translation of info page (thanks to
248 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 06 Sep 2014 14:17:45 +1000
250 help2man (1.46.1) unstable; urgency=medium
252 * Apply texinfo patch from Mario Blätterman.
253 * Rename aclocal macros with LOCAL_ prefix.
254 * Include "missing" program from automake in distribution.
255 * Add LOCAL_PROG_OR_MISSING macro.
256 * Add German translation of info page (thanks to Mario Blätterman).
257 * Change reference to standards to avoid spurious comma.
258 * Merge updates into texinfo translations.
259 * Update German translation (thanks to Mario Blättermann).
260 * Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rafael Ferreira).
261 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
262 * Update Ukranian translation, and add translation of info page (thanks
264 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
265 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot).
266 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
267 * Add Hungarian translation (thanks to Balázs Úr).
268 * Update Polish translation, and add translation of info page (thanks to
270 * Move automake helper scripts into a build-aux sub-directory.
271 * Add a helper script to locate files in $VPATH.
272 * Add helper scripts to clean up texinfo translations:
273 + fixup-tex-pot: remove entries from template which should not be
275 + fixup-texi-trans: add the correct path for install-info and correct the
276 alignment of the main menu.
277 * Add Norwegian Bokmaal translation (thanks to Johnny A. Solbu).
279 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jul 2014 23:25:48 +1000
281 help2man (1.45.1) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Skip additional blank lines following sections, and provide an
284 explicit method of adding sections (thanks to Mischa Williamson).
285 * Improve handling of tagged paragraphs when the body is on a following
286 line (thanks to Brian Campbell).
287 * Add escapes to adjust spacing of italic text at roman/italic
288 boundaries (thanks to Bjarni Ingi Gislason, closes: #742289)
290 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:45:24 +1100
292 help2man (1.44.1) unstable; urgency=low
294 * Perform shell word splitting on option lines in include files.
295 * Update Serbian translation (thanks to Мирослав Николић).
296 * Update German translation (thanks to Mario Blättermann).
297 * Update copyright years.
298 * Change distribution filename in README to help2man-VERSION.tar.xz
299 * Fix gitweb URL in README.
301 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 02 Feb 2014 15:07:59 +1100
303 help2man (1.43.3) unstable; urgency=low
305 * Update Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
306 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
307 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
308 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
309 * Update Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
310 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
311 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot).
313 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 08 Jun 2013 22:31:52 +1000
315 help2man (1.43.2) unstable; urgency=low
317 * Use the generic term "section" in the documentation rather than "name",
318 which could be confused to mean only the literal "NAME" section.
320 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:13:29 +1000
322 help2man (1.43.1) unstable; urgency=low
324 * Add explicit include syntax for prepending, replacing or appending to
325 generated output for a section (thanks to Daniil Baturin for the idea).
326 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
327 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
329 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 04 Jun 2013 22:22:39 +1000
331 help2man (1.42.1) unstable; urgency=low
333 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
334 * Update Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).
335 * Consistently strip path and/or libtool "lt-" prefix from any instance
336 of $program derived from --help or --version (thanks to Eric Shattow
337 for identifying the issue).
339 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 28 May 2013 21:49:20 +1000
341 help2man (1.41.2) unstable; urgency=low
343 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
344 * Update Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).
345 * Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rodolfo Ribeiro
348 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 14 Apr 2013 07:05:43 +1000
350 help2man (1.41.1) unstable; urgency=low
352 * Rename configure.in to .ac, and revise use of AC_INIT/AC_OUTPUT macros
353 to meet current autoconf guidelines.
354 * Add copyright headers to supporting files (GNU All-Permissive License).
355 * Fix section name comparisons ($sect is localised).
356 * Set filenames in italics (as suggested by Yann Soubeyrand).
357 * Suppress option/filename handling in EXAMPLES section.
359 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:24:33 +1100
361 help2man (1.40.13) unstable; urgency=low
363 * Add "Multi-Arch: foreign" control field to permit any installable
364 architecture to satisfy a build dependency when cross-building
365 packages (closes: #694586).
367 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 23:01:36 +1100
369 help2man (1.40.12) unstable; urgency=low
371 * Update Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).
372 * Fix updating of help2man.pot to occur only when help2man.PL is
373 changed, not help2man generated.
375 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:43:05 +1000
377 help2man (1.40.11) unstable; urgency=low
379 * Add Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).
381 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:29:43 +1000
383 help2man (1.40.10) unstable; urgency=low
385 * Update Greek translation (thanks to Savvas Radevic).
386 * Update Serbian translation (thanks to Мирослав Николић).
387 * Update German translation (thanks to Arun Persaud).
389 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2012 13:54:58 +1000
391 help2man (1.40.9) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Update Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
394 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
395 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
396 * Update German translation (thanks to Chris Leick, closes: #669564).
398 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:35:43 +1000
400 help2man (1.40.8) unstable; urgency=low
402 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot).
403 * Update Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
404 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
405 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
406 * Update Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
407 * Modify self-extracting scripts to output to a temporary file.
408 * Ensure that help2man exists before building manual pages (as reported
411 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 08 Apr 2012 23:10:20 +1000
413 help2man (1.40.7) unstable; urgency=low
415 * Update Greek translation (thanks to Savvas Radevic).
417 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:28:41 +1100
419 help2man (1.40.6) unstable; urgency=low
421 * Update years in debian/copyright.
422 * Fix FSF address in comments (thanks to Paul Eggert).
424 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:39:25 +1100
426 help2man (1.40.5) unstable; urgency=low
428 * Clean up some lintian warnings: build-targets, source format and
430 * Add Serbian translation (thanks to Miroslav Nikolic).
431 * Fix trivial translation changes due to additional copyright year.
432 * Minor fix to Italian translation.
434 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:50:50 +1100
436 help2man (1.40.4) unstable; urgency=low
438 * Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rodolfo Ribeiro
441 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:29:04 +1000
443 help2man (1.40.3) unstable; urgency=low
445 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
446 * Update links to git repository.
448 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:08:53 +1000
450 help2man (1.40.2) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Remove a superfluous period from texinfo doc.
453 * Change footnote about supported languages to a simple paragraph.
454 * Update Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
455 * Update Ukrainian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
456 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot).
457 * Update Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
458 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
459 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
461 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:04:45 +1000
463 help2man (1.40.1) unstable; urgency=low
465 * Update texinfo docs with recommendations kindly provided by Karl
467 * Document --libtool option.
468 * Fixup references to GNU Standards.
469 * Allow date format to be localised (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
470 * Add Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
472 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 29 May 2011 11:31:14 +1000
474 help2man (1.39.4) unstable; urgency=low
476 * Update Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
478 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 11 May 2011 22:58:55 +1000
480 help2man (1.39.3) unstable; urgency=low
482 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot, closes: #620250).
483 * Update the "Localised man pages" section of the Texinfo docs and note that
484 translations are now handled through the Translation Project.
485 * Update German translation (thanks to Chris Leick, closes: #624401).
486 * Minor update to German translation as suggested by Werner Lemberg in
487 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=26828512
489 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 01 May 2011 10:35:38 +1000
491 help2man (1.39.2) unstable; urgency=low
493 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
494 * Update Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
495 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
496 * Add Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
497 * Update Finnish translation (thanks to Tommi Vainikainen).
499 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:33:01 +1100
501 help2man (1.39.1) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Add option to remove `lt-' prefix for libtool programs (thanks to
505 * Add Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
506 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
507 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
509 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:15:44 +1100
511 help2man (1.38.4) unstable; urgency=low
513 * Add Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
514 * Don't double encode $date in the header.
515 * Use UTF-8 encoding for all manual pages.
516 * Add Greek translation (thanks to Michael Kotsarinis).
517 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot, closes: #590580).
518 * Update German translation (thanks to Helge Kreutzmann, closes: #590975).
519 * Use INSTALL_SCRIPT to install Perl script.
520 * Remove deprecated DH_COMPAT in debian/rules, adding debian/compat.
521 * Add ${misc:Depends}.
522 * Don't ignore errors from distclean.
523 * Fix Brazilian, Russian and Italian translations (placement of period was
524 causing text to be interpreted as a macro).
525 * Update standards version to 3.9.1.
526 * Add missing dependency on dpkg/install-info.
527 * Strip bindtextdomain.so preload.
528 * Install preload into $(libdir)/help2man.
530 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:43:36 +1100
532 help2man (1.38.3) unstable; urgency=low
534 * Apply patch from Mike Frysinger to allow "make install -j" to work.
536 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:17:17 +1000
538 help2man (1.38.2) unstable; urgency=low
540 * Update Finnish translation (thanks to Tommi Vainikainen).
541 * Add Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
543 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:00:04 +1000
545 help2man (1.38.1) unstable; urgency=low
547 * Add support for ENVIRONMENT and FILES sections (Sven Utcke).
548 * Ensure THANKS file includes translators.
549 * Fix handling of translated --no-discard-stderr instruction.
550 * Move tranlsated .h2m contents into .po files.
551 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
552 * Add Vietnamese translation (thanks to Clytie Siddall).
553 * Add some comments for translators.
555 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:59:32 +1000
557 help2man (1.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Fix typo in comment (Paul Eggert).
560 * Move cvs repository to git.
561 * Remove extraneous whitespace from debian/rules.
562 * Sanity check that version in help2man.PL matches debian/changelog.
563 * Handle automake directory with explicit version number.
564 * Integrate NMU, thanks Stefano.
565 * Add @datarootdir@ used by new autoconf.
566 * Add --no-discard-stderr option, suggest use if no stdout (closes: #138752).
567 * Add VCS fields to debian/control.
568 * Update copyright years.
569 * Anchor [section] and /pattern/ matches for include files so that
570 pathnames are not matched by the latter (Reuben Thomas).
571 * Add line breaks into bug reporting section (Jim Meyering).
572 * Clarify that the section output order contains optional items (Rueben).
573 * Match "Report <prog> bugs to ..." (Jim).
574 * Add Brazilian Portuguese translation (Rodolfo Ribeiro Gomes).
575 * Add German translation (Chris Leick, closes: #547154).
576 * Remove addition of default territory to locale (closes: #336298).
577 * Set locale via argument embedded in .h2m files.
578 * Select a reasonable configure default for --enable-nls.
579 * Parse program output and include files in the chartset given by --locale.
580 * Conditionally include gettext support at extraction, rather than run-time.
581 * Revise preload mechanism to not require preloadable libintl.
582 * Document recommended suffixes for --include files (Simon Josefsson).
584 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:35:45 +1100
586 help2man (1.36.4+nmu1) unstable; urgency=low
588 * Non-maintainer upload.
589 * Bump debhelper compatibility level to 5 (4 is deprecated now), move
590 the setting to debian/compat
591 * Add missing dependency on ${shlibs:Depends}, neede by the .so file
593 * Add --version-string option to support programs which are missing some
594 sort of --version option. Thanks to Lionel Elie Mamane for the patch.
597 -- Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:35:34 +0200
599 help2man (1.36.4) unstable; urgency=low
601 * Add sv translation from Daniel Nylander (closes: #349568).
603 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:42:19 +1100
605 help2man (1.36.3) unstable; urgency=low
607 * Updated fr translation from Denis Barbier (closes: #338995).
609 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:57:23 +1100
611 help2man (1.36.2) unstable; urgency=low
613 * Updated po translation from Jakub Bogusz.
614 * Makefile.in: $(srcdir) fix from Paul Eggert (closes: #335741).
616 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:46:16 +1000
618 help2man (1.36.1) unstable; urgency=low
620 * Add default territory to --locale option.
621 * Add Finnish translations (thanks to Tommi Vainikainen,
623 * Correctly update .pot and .po files (thanks to Thomas Huriaux,
626 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:38:59 +1000
628 help2man (1.35.2) unstable; urgency=low
630 * help2man.texi: spelling corrections (closes: #328671).
631 * debian/rules: configure --host on cross build (closes: #284701).
632 * debian/rules: set DH_COMPAT to 4.
634 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 4 Oct 2005 22:14:26 +1000
636 help2man (1.35.1) unstable; urgency=low
638 * Set program name to the first word of NAME paragraph in --include
641 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:06:58 +1100
643 help2man (1.34.2) unstable; urgency=low
645 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
647 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:28:29 +1100
649 help2man (1.34.1) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Escape all unescaped hyphens in output (closes: #263803).
652 * Convert parenthesised options, eg (-F).
653 * info section in SEE ALSO should use $program rather than $info_page
654 when referring to the program (thanks to Jim Mayering).
656 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 20 Nov 2004 09:54:13 +1100
658 help2man (1.33.1) unstable; urgency=low
660 * Allow "Usage" to be localised.
661 * Add Polish translations (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
662 * Add --enable-nls/--disable-nls configure option.
663 * Add back gettext and libgettext-perl build-depends (for configure).
664 * Check for Locale::gettext, gettext and usability of
665 preloadable_libintl.so.
667 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 00:14:25 +1000
669 help2man (1.32.2) unstable; urgency=low
671 * Build preload with -fPIC. Closes: #200632.
673 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jul 2003 07:57:56 +1000
675 help2man (1.32.1) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Set times on generated help2man so pages don't need to be
678 regenerated. Remove some associated build-deps.
680 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:13:42 +1000
682 help2man (1.31.2) unstable; urgency=low
684 * Fix quoting in generation of README file.
685 * Changed to arch=any due to inclusion of the LD_PRELOAD library.
687 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 22:59:28 +1000
689 help2man (1.31.1) unstable; urgency=low
691 * Oops, might help to actually *install* the message catalog.
692 * Check for errors writing output (suggested by Jim Meyering).
693 * Work around an odd regex bug under perl 5.6+ where /^ {0}(\S.*)\n/
694 doesn't match correctly.
696 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 20:20:02 +1000
698 help2man (1.30.1) unstable; urgency=low
700 * Add support for localised manual pages (closes #183671). Many
701 thanks to Denis Barbier for patches, advice and French
704 * Import RCS files to CVS.
705 * Convert to native Debian package.
707 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 8 Jul 2003 23:57:44 +1000
709 Sat Sep 7 02:13:05 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
711 * help2man.texi: Change @dircategory to "GNU programming support"
712 (Karl Berry). Change @setchapternewpage to "on" (Peter Moulder).
714 * Makefile.in: Added some more GNU standard targets (Peter
717 * Makefile.in, help2man.h2m: Rename help2man.aux to .h2m to avoid
720 * help2man.PL: version bump
722 Tue Jun 4 00:53:18 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
724 * help2man.PL: Expand copyright years (Paul Eggert). Provide
725 --info-page option (Bonzini).
727 * README.sh: hrm, different awk...
729 Tue Mar 19 23:52:37 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
731 * help2man.PL: Allow short and long options to be separated by
732 multiple spaces (Paul Eggert).
734 Sat Mar 9 23:54:01 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
736 * help2man.PL: version bump for doc changes
737 * help2man.texi: Add --help recommendations from Karl Berry (& co.)
739 Mon Dec 3 19:02:26 2001 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
741 * README.sh: Change email address
742 * configure.in: Require perl 5.005
743 * help2man.PL, help2man.texi: Add --source, --manual, --help-option
744 and --version-option; change email address; update copyright
746 Fri Dec 22 23:17:11 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
748 * help2man.PL: Process options given in the block before the first
749 section of an include file (suggested by Akim Demaille).
751 * help2man.aux: Document option parsing of initial include file
754 * help2man.texi: Use @pxref rather than @xref (Karl Berry).
755 Document option parsing of initial include file segment.
757 Tue Oct 31 17:07:30 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
759 * help2man.PL: Add protection for leading apostrophes (reported by
760 Matt Kraai). Don't zero-pad version.
762 Fri Jul 7 16:16:18 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
764 * README.sh: Add GNU prefix
765 * aclocal.m4: (add) autoconf support
766 * configure.in: Use AC_PROG_PERL from aclocal.m4 to find perl
767 (checks for perl and perl5)
769 * help2man.PL: Add GNU prefix, bug reporting address
770 * help2man.aux: Remove ozemail URL
771 * help2man.texi: Add GNU prefix, bug reporting address. Remove
774 Sun Apr 16 00:18:41 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
776 * Makefile.in: Add mkinstalldirs (as reqested by Dave Morrison,
777 Patrick Tullmann and Mo DeJong)
779 * help2man.PL: Version bump
781 Thu Dec 30 01:29:12 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
783 * help2man.texi: Correct typo
785 Thu Nov 11 03:16:25 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
787 * help2man.PL: Remove directories from synopsis
789 Wed Nov 3 17:39:50 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
791 * help2man.PL: Revise tagged paragraph matching *again*
793 Mon Nov 1 21:50:36 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
795 * help2man.PL: Allow multiple synopsis entries (w/- `or:'). Single
796 options may have argument w/- `='.
798 * help2man.texi: Add /pattern/
799 * configure.in: Add MAKEINFO/INSTALL_INFO
800 * Makefile.in: Install help2man.info
802 Wed Oct 27 16:02:00 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
804 * help2man.PL: Allow --include to be specified multiple times. Add
807 * help2man.aux: Document /pattern/ syntax
809 Mon Oct 25 22:36:16 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
811 * help2man.PL: Fix odd /^x|^y/ pre-5.005 perl bug. Split tagged
812 paragraph logic into option/other. Protect leading periods in
815 * THANKS to Roland Huebner for extensive bug report.
818 Tue Oct 12 16:25:23 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
820 * help2man.PL: Protect leading dots (1.14: not released)
822 * README.sh, help2man.aux: Add ftp.gnu.org URL
823 * help2man.PL: Allow fixed-pitch examples where prefixed by $,
826 Thu Sep 2 19:43:02 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
828 * help2man.PL: Fix typo in --help (Jim Meyering)
829 Escape backslashes (Andreas Schwab/Peter Moulder)
831 * help2man.texi: (add) Texinfo docs for help2man
833 Thu Jun 24 12:17:50 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
835 * help2man.PL: Add --section option (from Okuji Yoshinori). Fixes
836 to option handling and inter-paragraph breaks.
838 Thu Jun 17 19:45:08 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
840 * help2man.PL: Defer option formatting until after paragraph
841 continuation handling
843 * Makefile.in, configure.in: (add) autoconf support
844 * configure, makefile.dist: (remove) autoconf support
845 * README.in: Rename to README.sh (so as not to be confused with
848 Wed Mar 24 21:47:18 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
850 * help2man.PL: Improved tagged paragraph/continuation handling
852 Thu Feb 25 15:58:30 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
854 * README.in, help2man.aux: Add URL for distribution
855 * help2man.PL: Increment revision (changes to help2man.aux)
857 Thu Jan 21 14:46:48 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
859 * help2man.PL: Update copyright
860 * makefile.dist: Add help2man.1 to `all' target
862 Mon Jan 11 10:42:04 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
864 * help2man.PL: Handle version output with `Free' as well as `GNU'.
865 Missing backslash in initial comment (from Andreas Schwab)
867 Thu Dec 10 12:50:10 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
869 * help2man.PL: Experimental NLS version on main trunk (1.6-1.8)
870 pruned, rejoined branch 1.5.1.4 as 1.6
872 Cleaned up version format and removed François' name from
873 the code (at his suggestion).
875 * README.in: (add) Description for help2man
876 * configure: (add) Dodgy configure script for help2man
877 * help2man.aux: (add) Include file for help2man man page
878 * makefile.dist: (add) Dodgy makefile for help2man
880 Wed Nov 25 11:31:09 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
882 * help2man.PL: Join hyphenated lines in --version output
884 Tue Oct 20 20:44:46 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
886 * help2man.PL: Fix strftime locale (from Akim Demaille), add
889 Tue Oct 6 10:05:20 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
891 * help2man.PL: Remove --manhelp/oneliner mechanism
893 Sat Aug 29 04:50:02 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
895 * help2man.PL: Add --include/--opt-include options and Clark
896 Morgan's --manhelp/oneliner parsing. Merged changes from Karl
899 Thu Feb 26 10:38:34 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
901 * help2man.PL: Fix synopsis and revert `use version' to `require
902 version' as perl5.003 doesn't grok the former
904 Mon Feb 23 11:54:13 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
906 * help2man.PL: Add --output
908 Fri Feb 20 15:14:22 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
910 * help2man.PL: Made self-extracting .PL for portability; Some
911 enhancements to work with a2ps for Akim
913 Thu Feb 19 10:16:58 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
915 * help2man.PL: Fix DESCRIPTION mis-spell (from Akim Demaille)
917 Thu Jan 22 16:53:32 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
919 * help2man.PL: (add) Generate man page from a program's --version