1 help2man (1.40.13) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Add "Multi-Arch: foreign" control field to permit any installable
4 architecture to satisfy a build dependency when cross-building
5 packages (closes: #694586).
7 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 23:01:36 +1100
9 help2man (1.40.12) unstable; urgency=low
11 * Update Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).
12 * Fix updating of help2man.pot to occur only when help2man.PL is
13 changed, not help2man generated.
15 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:43:05 +1000
17 help2man (1.40.11) unstable; urgency=low
19 * Add Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).
21 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:29:43 +1000
23 help2man (1.40.10) unstable; urgency=low
25 * Update Greek translation (thanks to Savvas Radevic).
26 * Update Serbian translation (thanks to Мирослав Николић).
27 * Update German translation (thanks to Arun Persaud).
29 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2012 13:54:58 +1000
31 help2man (1.40.9) unstable; urgency=low
33 * Update Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
34 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
35 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
36 * Update German translation (thanks to Chris Leick, closes: #669564).
38 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:35:43 +1000
40 help2man (1.40.8) unstable; urgency=low
42 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot).
43 * Update Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
44 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
45 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
46 * Update Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
47 * Modify self-extracting scripts to output to a temporary file.
48 * Ensure that help2man exists before building manual pages (as reported
51 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 08 Apr 2012 23:10:20 +1000
53 help2man (1.40.7) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Update Greek translation (thanks to Savvas Radevic).
57 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:28:41 +1100
59 help2man (1.40.6) unstable; urgency=low
61 * Update years in debian/copyright.
62 * Fix FSF address in comments (thanks to Paul Eggert).
64 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:39:25 +1100
66 help2man (1.40.5) unstable; urgency=low
68 * Clean up some lintian warnings: build-targets, source format and
70 * Add Serbian translation (thanks to Miroslav Nikolic).
71 * Fix trivial translation changes due to additional copyright year.
72 * Minor fix to Italian translation.
74 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:50:50 +1100
76 help2man (1.40.4) unstable; urgency=low
78 * Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rodolfo Ribeiro
81 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:29:04 +1000
83 help2man (1.40.3) unstable; urgency=low
85 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
86 * Update links to git repository.
88 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:08:53 +1000
90 help2man (1.40.2) unstable; urgency=low
92 * Remove a superfluous period from texinfo doc.
93 * Change footnote about supported languages to a simple paragraph.
94 * Update Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
95 * Update Ukrainian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
96 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot).
97 * Update Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
98 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
99 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
101 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:04:45 +1000
103 help2man (1.40.1) unstable; urgency=low
105 * Update texinfo docs with recommendations kindly provided by Karl
107 * Document --libtool option.
108 * Fixup references to GNU Standards.
109 * Allow date format to be localised (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
110 * Add Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
112 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 29 May 2011 11:31:14 +1000
114 help2man (1.39.4) unstable; urgency=low
116 * Update Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
118 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 11 May 2011 22:58:55 +1000
120 help2man (1.39.3) unstable; urgency=low
122 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot, closes: #620250).
123 * Update the "Localised man pages" section of the Texinfo docs and note that
124 translations are now handled through the Translation Project.
125 * Update German translation (thanks to Chris Leick, closes: #624401).
126 * Minor update to German translation as suggested by Werner Lemberg in
127 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=26828512
129 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 01 May 2011 10:35:38 +1000
131 help2man (1.39.2) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
134 * Update Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
135 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
136 * Add Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
137 * Update Finnish translation (thanks to Tommi Vainikainen).
139 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:33:01 +1100
141 help2man (1.39.1) unstable; urgency=low
143 * Add option to remove `lt-' prefix for libtool programs (thanks to
145 * Add Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
146 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
147 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
149 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:15:44 +1100
151 help2man (1.38.4) unstable; urgency=low
153 * Add Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
154 * Don't double encode $date in the header.
155 * Use UTF-8 encoding for all manual pages.
156 * Add Greek translation (thanks to Michael Kotsarinis).
157 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot, closes: #590580).
158 * Update German translation (thanks to Helge Kreutzmann, closes: #590975).
159 * Use INSTALL_SCRIPT to install Perl script.
160 * Remove deprecated DH_COMPAT in debian/rules, adding debian/compat.
161 * Add ${misc:Depends}.
162 * Don't ignore errors from distclean.
163 * Fix Brazilian, Russian and Italian translations (placement of period was
164 causing text to be interpreted as a macro).
165 * Update standards version to 3.9.1.
166 * Add missing dependency on dpkg/install-info.
167 * Strip bindtextdomain.so preload.
168 * Install preload into $(libdir)/help2man.
170 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:43:36 +1100
172 help2man (1.38.3) unstable; urgency=low
174 * Apply patch from Mike Frysinger to allow "make install -j" to work.
176 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:17:17 +1000
178 help2man (1.38.2) unstable; urgency=low
180 * Update Finnish translation (thanks to Tommi Vainikainen).
181 * Add Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
183 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:00:04 +1000
185 help2man (1.38.1) unstable; urgency=low
187 * Add support for ENVIRONMENT and FILES sections (Sven Utcke).
188 * Ensure THANKS file includes translators.
189 * Fix handling of translated --no-discard-stderr instruction.
190 * Move tranlsated .h2m contents into .po files.
191 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
192 * Add Vietnamese translation (thanks to Clytie Siddall).
193 * Add some comments for translators.
195 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:59:32 +1000
197 help2man (1.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
199 * Fix typo in comment (Paul Eggert).
200 * Move cvs repository to git.
201 * Remove extraneous whitespace from debian/rules.
202 * Sanity check that version in help2man.PL matches debian/changelog.
203 * Handle automake directory with explicit version number.
204 * Integrate NMU, thanks Stefano.
205 * Add @datarootdir@ used by new autoconf.
206 * Add --no-discard-stderr option, suggest use if no stdout (closes: #138752).
207 * Add VCS fields to debian/control.
208 * Update copyright years.
209 * Anchor [section] and /pattern/ matches for include files so that
210 pathnames are not matched by the latter (Reuben Thomas).
211 * Add line breaks into bug reporting section (Jim Meyering).
212 * Clarify that the section output order contains optional items (Rueben).
213 * Match "Report <prog> bugs to ..." (Jim).
214 * Add Brazilian Portuguese translation (Rodolfo Ribeiro Gomes).
215 * Add German translation (Chris Leick, closes: #547154).
216 * Remove addition of default territory to locale (closes: #336298).
217 * Set locale via argument embedded in .h2m files.
218 * Select a reasonable configure default for --enable-nls.
219 * Parse program output and include files in the chartset given by --locale.
220 * Conditionally include gettext support at extraction, rather than run-time.
221 * Revise preload mechanism to not require preloadable libintl.
222 * Document recommended suffixes for --include files (Simon Josefsson).
224 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:35:45 +1100
226 help2man (1.36.4+nmu1) unstable; urgency=low
228 * Non-maintainer upload.
229 * Bump debhelper compatibility level to 5 (4 is deprecated now), move
230 the setting to debian/compat
231 * Add missing dependency on ${shlibs:Depends}, neede by the .so file
233 * Add --version-string option to support programs which are missing some
234 sort of --version option. Thanks to Lionel Elie Mamane for the patch.
237 -- Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:35:34 +0200
239 help2man (1.36.4) unstable; urgency=low
241 * Add sv translation from Daniel Nylander (closes: #349568).
243 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:42:19 +1100
245 help2man (1.36.3) unstable; urgency=low
247 * Updated fr translation from Denis Barbier (closes: #338995).
249 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:57:23 +1100
251 help2man (1.36.2) unstable; urgency=low
253 * Updated po translation from Jakub Bogusz.
254 * Makefile.in: $(srcdir) fix from Paul Eggert (closes: #335741).
256 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:46:16 +1000
258 help2man (1.36.1) unstable; urgency=low
260 * Add default territory to --locale option.
261 * Add Finnish translations (thanks to Tommi Vainikainen,
263 * Correctly update .pot and .po files (thanks to Thomas Huriaux,
266 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:38:59 +1000
268 help2man (1.35.2) unstable; urgency=low
270 * help2man.texi: spelling corrections (closes: #328671).
271 * debian/rules: configure --host on cross build (closes: #284701).
272 * debian/rules: set DH_COMPAT to 4.
274 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 4 Oct 2005 22:14:26 +1000
276 help2man (1.35.1) unstable; urgency=low
278 * Set program name to the first word of NAME paragraph in --include
281 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:06:58 +1100
283 help2man (1.34.2) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
287 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:28:29 +1100
289 help2man (1.34.1) unstable; urgency=low
291 * Escape all unescaped hyphens in output (closes: #263803).
292 * Convert parenthesised options, eg (-F).
293 * info section in SEE ALSO should use $program rather than $info_page
294 when referring to the program (thanks to Jim Mayering).
296 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 20 Nov 2004 09:54:13 +1100
298 help2man (1.33.1) unstable; urgency=low
300 * Allow "Usage" to be localised.
301 * Add Polish translations (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
302 * Add --enable-nls/--disable-nls configure option.
303 * Add back gettext and libgettext-perl build-depends (for configure).
304 * Check for Locale::gettext, gettext and usability of
305 preloadable_libintl.so.
307 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 00:14:25 +1000
309 help2man (1.32.2) unstable; urgency=low
311 * Build preload with -fPIC. Closes: #200632.
313 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jul 2003 07:57:56 +1000
315 help2man (1.32.1) unstable; urgency=low
317 * Set times on generated help2man so pages don't need to be
318 regenerated. Remove some associated build-deps.
320 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:13:42 +1000
322 help2man (1.31.2) unstable; urgency=low
324 * Fix quoting in generation of README file.
325 * Changed to arch=any due to inclusion of the LD_PRELOAD library.
327 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 22:59:28 +1000
329 help2man (1.31.1) unstable; urgency=low
331 * Oops, might help to actually *install* the message catalog.
332 * Check for errors writing output (suggested by Jim Meyering).
333 * Work around an odd regex bug under perl 5.6+ where /^ {0}(\S.*)\n/
334 doesn't match correctly.
336 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 20:20:02 +1000
338 help2man (1.30.1) unstable; urgency=low
340 * Add support for localised manual pages (closes #183671). Many
341 thanks to Denis Barbier for patches, advice and French
344 * Import RCS files to CVS.
345 * Convert to native Debian package.
347 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 8 Jul 2003 23:57:44 +1000
349 Sat Sep 7 02:13:05 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
351 * help2man.texi: Change @dircategory to "GNU programming support"
352 (Karl Berry). Change @setchapternewpage to "on" (Peter Moulder).
354 * Makefile.in: Added some more GNU standard targets (Peter
357 * Makefile.in, help2man.h2m: Rename help2man.aux to .h2m to avoid
360 * help2man.PL: version bump
362 Tue Jun 4 00:53:18 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
364 * help2man.PL: Expand copyright years (Paul Eggert). Provide
365 --info-page option (Bonzini).
367 * README.sh: hrm, different awk...
369 Tue Mar 19 23:52:37 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
371 * help2man.PL: Allow short and long options to be separated by
372 multiple spaces (Paul Eggert).
374 Sat Mar 9 23:54:01 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
376 * help2man.PL: version bump for doc changes
377 * help2man.texi: Add --help recommendations from Karl Berry (& co.)
379 Mon Dec 3 19:02:26 2001 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
381 * README.sh: Change email address
382 * configure.in: Require perl 5.005
383 * help2man.PL, help2man.texi: Add --source, --manual, --help-option
384 and --version-option; change email address; update copyright
386 Fri Dec 22 23:17:11 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
388 * help2man.PL: Process options given in the block before the first
389 section of an include file (suggested by Akim Demaille).
391 * help2man.aux: Document option parsing of initial include file
394 * help2man.texi: Use @pxref rather than @xref (Karl Berry).
395 Document option parsing of initial include file segment.
397 Tue Oct 31 17:07:30 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
399 * help2man.PL: Add protection for leading apostrophes (reported by
400 Matt Kraai). Don't zero-pad version.
402 Fri Jul 7 16:16:18 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
404 * README.sh: Add GNU prefix
405 * aclocal.m4: (add) autoconf support
406 * configure.in: Use AC_PROG_PERL from aclocal.m4 to find perl
407 (checks for perl and perl5)
409 * help2man.PL: Add GNU prefix, bug reporting address
410 * help2man.aux: Remove ozemail URL
411 * help2man.texi: Add GNU prefix, bug reporting address. Remove
414 Sun Apr 16 00:18:41 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
416 * Makefile.in: Add mkinstalldirs (as reqested by Dave Morrison,
417 Patrick Tullmann and Mo DeJong)
419 * help2man.PL: Version bump
421 Thu Dec 30 01:29:12 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
423 * help2man.texi: Correct typo
425 Thu Nov 11 03:16:25 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
427 * help2man.PL: Remove directories from synopsis
429 Wed Nov 3 17:39:50 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
431 * help2man.PL: Revise tagged paragraph matching *again*
433 Mon Nov 1 21:50:36 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
435 * help2man.PL: Allow multiple synopsis entries (w/- `or:'). Single
436 options may have argument w/- `='.
438 * help2man.texi: Add /pattern/
439 * configure.in: Add MAKEINFO/INSTALL_INFO
440 * Makefile.in: Install help2man.info
442 Wed Oct 27 16:02:00 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
444 * help2man.PL: Allow --include to be specified multiple times. Add
447 * help2man.aux: Document /pattern/ syntax
449 Mon Oct 25 22:36:16 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
451 * help2man.PL: Fix odd /^x|^y/ pre-5.005 perl bug. Split tagged
452 paragraph logic into option/other. Protect leading periods in
455 * THANKS to Roland Huebner for extensive bug report.
458 Tue Oct 12 16:25:23 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
460 * help2man.PL: Protect leading dots (1.14: not released)
462 * README.sh, help2man.aux: Add ftp.gnu.org URL
463 * help2man.PL: Allow fixed-pitch examples where prefixed by $,
466 Thu Sep 2 19:43:02 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
468 * help2man.PL: Fix typo in --help (Jim Meyering)
469 Escape backslashes (Andreas Schwab/Peter Moulder)
471 * help2man.texi: (add) Texinfo docs for help2man
473 Thu Jun 24 12:17:50 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
475 * help2man.PL: Add --section option (from Okuji Yoshinori). Fixes
476 to option handling and inter-paragraph breaks.
478 Thu Jun 17 19:45:08 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
480 * help2man.PL: Defer option formatting until after paragraph
481 continuation handling
483 * Makefile.in, configure.in: (add) autoconf support
484 * configure, makefile.dist: (remove) autoconf support
485 * README.in: Rename to README.sh (so as not to be confused with
488 Wed Mar 24 21:47:18 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
490 * help2man.PL: Improved tagged paragraph/continuation handling
492 Thu Feb 25 15:58:30 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
494 * README.in, help2man.aux: Add URL for distribution
495 * help2man.PL: Increment revision (changes to help2man.aux)
497 Thu Jan 21 14:46:48 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
499 * help2man.PL: Update copyright
500 * makefile.dist: Add help2man.1 to `all' target
502 Mon Jan 11 10:42:04 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
504 * help2man.PL: Handle version output with `Free' as well as `GNU'.
505 Missing backslash in initial comment (from Andreas Schwab)
507 Thu Dec 10 12:50:10 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
509 * help2man.PL: Experimental NLS version on main trunk (1.6-1.8)
510 pruned, rejoined branch 1.5.1.4 as 1.6
512 Cleaned up version format and removed François' name from
513 the code (at his suggestion).
515 * README.in: (add) Description for help2man
516 * configure: (add) Dodgy configure script for help2man
517 * help2man.aux: (add) Include file for help2man man page
518 * makefile.dist: (add) Dodgy makefile for help2man
520 Wed Nov 25 11:31:09 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
522 * help2man.PL: Join hyphenated lines in --version output
524 Tue Oct 20 20:44:46 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
526 * help2man.PL: Fix strftime locale (from Akim Demaille), add
529 Tue Oct 6 10:05:20 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
531 * help2man.PL: Remove --manhelp/oneliner mechanism
533 Sat Aug 29 04:50:02 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
535 * help2man.PL: Add --include/--opt-include options and Clark
536 Morgan's --manhelp/oneliner parsing. Merged changes from Karl
539 Thu Feb 26 10:38:34 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
541 * help2man.PL: Fix synopsis and revert `use version' to `require
542 version' as perl5.003 doesn't grok the former
544 Mon Feb 23 11:54:13 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
546 * help2man.PL: Add --output
548 Fri Feb 20 15:14:22 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
550 * help2man.PL: Made self-extracting .PL for portability; Some
551 enhancements to work with a2ps for Akim
553 Thu Feb 19 10:16:58 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
555 * help2man.PL: Fix DESCRIPTION mis-spell (from Akim Demaille)
557 Thu Jan 22 16:53:32 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
559 * help2man.PL: (add) Generate man page from a program's --version