1 help2man (1.47.4) unstable; urgency=medium
3 * Update Serbian translation (thanks to Мирослав Николић).
4 * Add Chinese (simplified) translation of info page (thanks to Mingye Wang).
5 * Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rafael Fontenelle).
6 * Reduce the minimum translation to 60% for info files.
7 * Extract version from dpkg-parsechangelog using the new flag, rather
9 * Add hardening flags via DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS.
10 * Use secure VCS URIs.
11 * Update standards version to 3.9.8.
13 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 09 May 2016 17:20:39 +1000
15 help2man (1.47.3) unstable; urgency=medium
17 * Filter more untranslatable strings from help2man-texi.pot, and add a
18 note to translators about translation of cross-references.
20 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2015 21:41:15 +1100
22 help2man (1.47.2) unstable; urgency=medium
24 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
25 * Add Chinese (simplified) translation (thanks to Mingye Wang).
27 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 11 Sep 2015 21:25:08 +1000
29 help2man (1.47.1) unstable; urgency=medium
31 * Set document language for localised info pages.
32 * Update German translations (thanks to Mario Blättermann).
33 * Update Ukranian translations (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
34 * Update French translations (thanks to David Prévot).
35 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
36 * Update Norwegian Bokmaal translation (thanks to Johnny A. Solbu).
37 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
38 * Update Danish translation (thanks to Joe Hansen).
39 * Update Polish translations (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
40 * Update Spanish translation and add translation of the info page
41 (thanks to Antonio Ceballos).
42 * Add support for reproducible builds by using $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH as the
43 date for the generated pages (closes: #787444).
45 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jun 2015 23:06:35 +1000
47 help2man (1.46.6) unstable; urgency=medium
49 * Add Danish translation (thanks to Joe Hansen).
50 * Update Finnish translation (thanks to Jorma Karvonen).
52 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 26 Apr 2015 13:52:49 +1000
54 help2man (1.46.5) unstable; urgency=medium
56 * Fix a problem with LC_ALL being imported twice with different
57 prototypes from POSIX and Locale::gettext (thanks to Gavin Smith for
59 * Update copyright years.
61 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:34:50 +1100
63 help2man (1.46.4) unstable; urgency=medium
65 * Include architecture.mk and buildflags.mk into rules to replace the
66 multiple calls to dpkg-architecture and to pick up the correct
68 * Add $(LDFLAGS) when building preload to pick up -z relro (see
69 https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening).
70 * Minor correction to Norwegian Bokmaal translation.
71 * Minor correction to Brazilian Portuguese translation.
72 * Escape dashes in --name flag for groff (see lintian tag:
73 hyphen-used-as-minus-sign).
74 * Fix example using AM_MISSING_PROG in documentation: this macro no
75 longer requires the third argument.
77 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:08:17 +1100
79 help2man (1.46.3) unstable; urgency=medium
81 * Update Serbian translation (thanks to Мирослав Николић).
82 * Add Spanish translation (thanks to Antonio Ceballos).
84 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2014 19:01:16 +1000
86 help2man (1.46.2) unstable; urgency=medium
88 * Update French translation, and add translation of info page (thanks to
91 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 06 Sep 2014 14:17:45 +1000
93 help2man (1.46.1) unstable; urgency=medium
95 * Apply texinfo patch from Mario Blätterman.
96 * Rename aclocal macros with LOCAL_ prefix.
97 * Include "missing" program from automake in distribution.
98 * Add LOCAL_PROG_OR_MISSING macro.
99 * Add German translation of info page (thanks to Mario Blätterman).
100 * Change reference to standards to avoid spurious comma.
101 * Merge updates into texinfo translations.
102 * Update German translation (thanks to Mario Blättermann).
103 * Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rafael Ferreira).
104 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
105 * Update Ukranian translation, and add translation of info page (thanks
107 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
108 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot).
109 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
110 * Add Hungarian translation (thanks to Balázs Úr).
111 * Update Polish translation, and add translation of info page (thanks to
113 * Move automake helper scripts into a build-aux sub-directory.
114 * Add a helper script to locate files in $VPATH.
115 * Add helper scripts to clean up texinfo translations:
116 + fixup-tex-pot: remove entries from template which should not be
118 + fixup-texi-trans: add the correct path for install-info and correct the
119 alignment of the main menu.
120 * Add Norwegian Bokmaal translation (thanks to Johnny A. Solbu).
122 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jul 2014 23:25:48 +1000
124 help2man (1.45.1) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Skip additional blank lines following sections, and provide an
127 explicit method of adding sections (thanks to Mischa Williamson).
128 * Improve handling of tagged paragraphs when the body is on a following
129 line (thanks to Brian Campbell).
130 * Add escapes to adjust spacing of italic text at roman/italic
131 boundaries (thanks to Bjarni Ingi Gislason, closes: #742289)
133 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:45:24 +1100
135 help2man (1.44.1) unstable; urgency=low
137 * Perform shell word splitting on option lines in include files.
138 * Update Serbian translation (thanks to Мирослав Николић).
139 * Update German translation (thanks to Mario Blättermann).
140 * Update copyright years.
141 * Change distribution filename in README to help2man-VERSION.tar.xz
142 * Fix gitweb URL in README.
144 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 02 Feb 2014 15:07:59 +1100
146 help2man (1.43.3) unstable; urgency=low
148 * Update Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
149 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
150 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
151 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
152 * Update Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
153 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
154 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot).
156 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 08 Jun 2013 22:31:52 +1000
158 help2man (1.43.2) unstable; urgency=low
160 * Use the generic term "section" in the documentation rather than "name",
161 which could be confused to mean only the literal "NAME" section.
163 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:13:29 +1000
165 help2man (1.43.1) unstable; urgency=low
167 * Add explicit include syntax for prepending, replacing or appending to
168 generated output for a section (thanks to Daniil Baturin for the idea).
169 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
170 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
172 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 04 Jun 2013 22:22:39 +1000
174 help2man (1.42.1) unstable; urgency=low
176 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
177 * Update Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).
178 * Consistently strip path and/or libtool "lt-" prefix from any instance
179 of $program derived from --help or --version (thanks to Eric Shattow
180 for identifying the issue).
182 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 28 May 2013 21:49:20 +1000
184 help2man (1.41.2) unstable; urgency=low
186 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
187 * Update Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).
188 * Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rodolfo Ribeiro
191 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 14 Apr 2013 07:05:43 +1000
193 help2man (1.41.1) unstable; urgency=low
195 * Rename configure.in to .ac, and revise use of AC_INIT/AC_OUTPUT macros
196 to meet current autoconf guidelines.
197 * Add copyright headers to supporting files (GNU All-Permissive License).
198 * Fix section name comparisons ($sect is localised).
199 * Set filenames in italics (as suggested by Yann Soubeyrand).
200 * Suppress option/filename handling in EXAMPLES section.
202 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:24:33 +1100
204 help2man (1.40.13) unstable; urgency=low
206 * Add "Multi-Arch: foreign" control field to permit any installable
207 architecture to satisfy a build dependency when cross-building
208 packages (closes: #694586).
210 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 03 Dec 2012 23:01:36 +1100
212 help2man (1.40.12) unstable; urgency=low
214 * Update Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).
215 * Fix updating of help2man.pot to occur only when help2man.PL is
216 changed, not help2man generated.
218 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:43:05 +1000
220 help2man (1.40.11) unstable; urgency=low
222 * Add Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).
224 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:29:43 +1000
226 help2man (1.40.10) unstable; urgency=low
228 * Update Greek translation (thanks to Savvas Radevic).
229 * Update Serbian translation (thanks to Мирослав Николић).
230 * Update German translation (thanks to Arun Persaud).
232 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2012 13:54:58 +1000
234 help2man (1.40.9) unstable; urgency=low
236 * Update Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
237 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
238 * Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngọc Quân).
239 * Update German translation (thanks to Chris Leick, closes: #669564).
241 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:35:43 +1000
243 help2man (1.40.8) unstable; urgency=low
245 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot).
246 * Update Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
247 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
248 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
249 * Update Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
250 * Modify self-extracting scripts to output to a temporary file.
251 * Ensure that help2man exists before building manual pages (as reported
254 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 08 Apr 2012 23:10:20 +1000
256 help2man (1.40.7) unstable; urgency=low
258 * Update Greek translation (thanks to Savvas Radevic).
260 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:28:41 +1100
262 help2man (1.40.6) unstable; urgency=low
264 * Update years in debian/copyright.
265 * Fix FSF address in comments (thanks to Paul Eggert).
267 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:39:25 +1100
269 help2man (1.40.5) unstable; urgency=low
271 * Clean up some lintian warnings: build-targets, source format and
273 * Add Serbian translation (thanks to Miroslav Nikolic).
274 * Fix trivial translation changes due to additional copyright year.
275 * Minor fix to Italian translation.
277 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:50:50 +1100
279 help2man (1.40.4) unstable; urgency=low
281 * Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rodolfo Ribeiro
284 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:29:04 +1000
286 help2man (1.40.3) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
289 * Update links to git repository.
291 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:08:53 +1000
293 help2man (1.40.2) unstable; urgency=low
295 * Remove a superfluous period from texinfo doc.
296 * Change footnote about supported languages to a simple paragraph.
297 * Update Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
298 * Update Ukrainian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
299 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot).
300 * Update Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
301 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
302 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
304 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:04:45 +1000
306 help2man (1.40.1) unstable; urgency=low
308 * Update texinfo docs with recommendations kindly provided by Karl
310 * Document --libtool option.
311 * Fixup references to GNU Standards.
312 * Allow date format to be localised (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
313 * Add Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).
315 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 29 May 2011 11:31:14 +1000
317 help2man (1.39.4) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Update Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
321 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 11 May 2011 22:58:55 +1000
323 help2man (1.39.3) unstable; urgency=low
325 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot, closes: #620250).
326 * Update the "Localised man pages" section of the Texinfo docs and note that
327 translations are now handled through the Translation Project.
328 * Update German translation (thanks to Chris Leick, closes: #624401).
329 * Minor update to German translation as suggested by Werner Lemberg in
330 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=26828512
332 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 01 May 2011 10:35:38 +1000
334 help2man (1.39.2) unstable; urgency=low
336 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
337 * Update Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
338 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
339 * Add Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).
340 * Update Finnish translation (thanks to Tommi Vainikainen).
342 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:33:01 +1100
344 help2man (1.39.1) unstable; urgency=low
346 * Add option to remove `lt-' prefix for libtool programs (thanks to
348 * Add Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan).
349 * Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
350 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
352 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:15:44 +1100
354 help2man (1.38.4) unstable; urgency=low
356 * Add Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
357 * Don't double encode $date in the header.
358 * Use UTF-8 encoding for all manual pages.
359 * Add Greek translation (thanks to Michael Kotsarinis).
360 * Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot, closes: #590580).
361 * Update German translation (thanks to Helge Kreutzmann, closes: #590975).
362 * Use INSTALL_SCRIPT to install Perl script.
363 * Remove deprecated DH_COMPAT in debian/rules, adding debian/compat.
364 * Add ${misc:Depends}.
365 * Don't ignore errors from distclean.
366 * Fix Brazilian, Russian and Italian translations (placement of period was
367 causing text to be interpreted as a macro).
368 * Update standards version to 3.9.1.
369 * Add missing dependency on dpkg/install-info.
370 * Strip bindtextdomain.so preload.
371 * Install preload into $(libdir)/help2man.
373 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:43:36 +1100
375 help2man (1.38.3) unstable; urgency=low
377 * Apply patch from Mike Frysinger to allow "make install -j" to work.
379 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:17:17 +1000
381 help2man (1.38.2) unstable; urgency=low
383 * Update Finnish translation (thanks to Tommi Vainikainen).
384 * Add Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov).
386 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:00:04 +1000
388 help2man (1.38.1) unstable; urgency=low
390 * Add support for ENVIRONMENT and FILES sections (Sven Utcke).
391 * Ensure THANKS file includes translators.
392 * Fix handling of translated --no-discard-stderr instruction.
393 * Move tranlsated .h2m contents into .po files.
394 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
395 * Add Vietnamese translation (thanks to Clytie Siddall).
396 * Add some comments for translators.
398 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:59:32 +1000
400 help2man (1.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
402 * Fix typo in comment (Paul Eggert).
403 * Move cvs repository to git.
404 * Remove extraneous whitespace from debian/rules.
405 * Sanity check that version in help2man.PL matches debian/changelog.
406 * Handle automake directory with explicit version number.
407 * Integrate NMU, thanks Stefano.
408 * Add @datarootdir@ used by new autoconf.
409 * Add --no-discard-stderr option, suggest use if no stdout (closes: #138752).
410 * Add VCS fields to debian/control.
411 * Update copyright years.
412 * Anchor [section] and /pattern/ matches for include files so that
413 pathnames are not matched by the latter (Reuben Thomas).
414 * Add line breaks into bug reporting section (Jim Meyering).
415 * Clarify that the section output order contains optional items (Rueben).
416 * Match "Report <prog> bugs to ..." (Jim).
417 * Add Brazilian Portuguese translation (Rodolfo Ribeiro Gomes).
418 * Add German translation (Chris Leick, closes: #547154).
419 * Remove addition of default territory to locale (closes: #336298).
420 * Set locale via argument embedded in .h2m files.
421 * Select a reasonable configure default for --enable-nls.
422 * Parse program output and include files in the chartset given by --locale.
423 * Conditionally include gettext support at extraction, rather than run-time.
424 * Revise preload mechanism to not require preloadable libintl.
425 * Document recommended suffixes for --include files (Simon Josefsson).
427 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:35:45 +1100
429 help2man (1.36.4+nmu1) unstable; urgency=low
431 * Non-maintainer upload.
432 * Bump debhelper compatibility level to 5 (4 is deprecated now), move
433 the setting to debian/compat
434 * Add missing dependency on ${shlibs:Depends}, neede by the .so file
436 * Add --version-string option to support programs which are missing some
437 sort of --version option. Thanks to Lionel Elie Mamane for the patch.
440 -- Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:35:34 +0200
442 help2man (1.36.4) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Add sv translation from Daniel Nylander (closes: #349568).
446 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:42:19 +1100
448 help2man (1.36.3) unstable; urgency=low
450 * Updated fr translation from Denis Barbier (closes: #338995).
452 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:57:23 +1100
454 help2man (1.36.2) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Updated po translation from Jakub Bogusz.
457 * Makefile.in: $(srcdir) fix from Paul Eggert (closes: #335741).
459 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:46:16 +1000
461 help2man (1.36.1) unstable; urgency=low
463 * Add default territory to --locale option.
464 * Add Finnish translations (thanks to Tommi Vainikainen,
466 * Correctly update .pot and .po files (thanks to Thomas Huriaux,
469 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:38:59 +1000
471 help2man (1.35.2) unstable; urgency=low
473 * help2man.texi: spelling corrections (closes: #328671).
474 * debian/rules: configure --host on cross build (closes: #284701).
475 * debian/rules: set DH_COMPAT to 4.
477 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 4 Oct 2005 22:14:26 +1000
479 help2man (1.35.1) unstable; urgency=low
481 * Set program name to the first word of NAME paragraph in --include
484 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:06:58 +1100
486 help2man (1.34.2) unstable; urgency=low
488 * Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
490 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:28:29 +1100
492 help2man (1.34.1) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Escape all unescaped hyphens in output (closes: #263803).
495 * Convert parenthesised options, eg (-F).
496 * info section in SEE ALSO should use $program rather than $info_page
497 when referring to the program (thanks to Jim Mayering).
499 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Sat, 20 Nov 2004 09:54:13 +1100
501 help2man (1.33.1) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Allow "Usage" to be localised.
504 * Add Polish translations (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).
505 * Add --enable-nls/--disable-nls configure option.
506 * Add back gettext and libgettext-perl build-depends (for configure).
507 * Check for Locale::gettext, gettext and usability of
508 preloadable_libintl.so.
510 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 00:14:25 +1000
512 help2man (1.32.2) unstable; urgency=low
514 * Build preload with -fPIC. Closes: #200632.
516 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jul 2003 07:57:56 +1000
518 help2man (1.32.1) unstable; urgency=low
520 * Set times on generated help2man so pages don't need to be
521 regenerated. Remove some associated build-deps.
523 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:13:42 +1000
525 help2man (1.31.2) unstable; urgency=low
527 * Fix quoting in generation of README file.
528 * Changed to arch=any due to inclusion of the LD_PRELOAD library.
530 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 22:59:28 +1000
532 help2man (1.31.1) unstable; urgency=low
534 * Oops, might help to actually *install* the message catalog.
535 * Check for errors writing output (suggested by Jim Meyering).
536 * Work around an odd regex bug under perl 5.6+ where /^ {0}(\S.*)\n/
537 doesn't match correctly.
539 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 20:20:02 +1000
541 help2man (1.30.1) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Add support for localised manual pages (closes #183671). Many
544 thanks to Denis Barbier for patches, advice and French
547 * Import RCS files to CVS.
548 * Convert to native Debian package.
550 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 8 Jul 2003 23:57:44 +1000
552 Sat Sep 7 02:13:05 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
554 * help2man.texi: Change @dircategory to "GNU programming support"
555 (Karl Berry). Change @setchapternewpage to "on" (Peter Moulder).
557 * Makefile.in: Added some more GNU standard targets (Peter
560 * Makefile.in, help2man.h2m: Rename help2man.aux to .h2m to avoid
563 * help2man.PL: version bump
565 Tue Jun 4 00:53:18 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
567 * help2man.PL: Expand copyright years (Paul Eggert). Provide
568 --info-page option (Bonzini).
570 * README.sh: hrm, different awk...
572 Tue Mar 19 23:52:37 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
574 * help2man.PL: Allow short and long options to be separated by
575 multiple spaces (Paul Eggert).
577 Sat Mar 9 23:54:01 2002 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
579 * help2man.PL: version bump for doc changes
580 * help2man.texi: Add --help recommendations from Karl Berry (& co.)
582 Mon Dec 3 19:02:26 2001 Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
584 * README.sh: Change email address
585 * configure.in: Require perl 5.005
586 * help2man.PL, help2man.texi: Add --source, --manual, --help-option
587 and --version-option; change email address; update copyright
589 Fri Dec 22 23:17:11 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
591 * help2man.PL: Process options given in the block before the first
592 section of an include file (suggested by Akim Demaille).
594 * help2man.aux: Document option parsing of initial include file
597 * help2man.texi: Use @pxref rather than @xref (Karl Berry).
598 Document option parsing of initial include file segment.
600 Tue Oct 31 17:07:30 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
602 * help2man.PL: Add protection for leading apostrophes (reported by
603 Matt Kraai). Don't zero-pad version.
605 Fri Jul 7 16:16:18 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
607 * README.sh: Add GNU prefix
608 * aclocal.m4: (add) autoconf support
609 * configure.in: Use AC_PROG_PERL from aclocal.m4 to find perl
610 (checks for perl and perl5)
612 * help2man.PL: Add GNU prefix, bug reporting address
613 * help2man.aux: Remove ozemail URL
614 * help2man.texi: Add GNU prefix, bug reporting address. Remove
617 Sun Apr 16 00:18:41 2000 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
619 * Makefile.in: Add mkinstalldirs (as reqested by Dave Morrison,
620 Patrick Tullmann and Mo DeJong)
622 * help2man.PL: Version bump
624 Thu Dec 30 01:29:12 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
626 * help2man.texi: Correct typo
628 Thu Nov 11 03:16:25 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
630 * help2man.PL: Remove directories from synopsis
632 Wed Nov 3 17:39:50 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
634 * help2man.PL: Revise tagged paragraph matching *again*
636 Mon Nov 1 21:50:36 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
638 * help2man.PL: Allow multiple synopsis entries (w/- `or:'). Single
639 options may have argument w/- `='.
641 * help2man.texi: Add /pattern/
642 * configure.in: Add MAKEINFO/INSTALL_INFO
643 * Makefile.in: Install help2man.info
645 Wed Oct 27 16:02:00 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
647 * help2man.PL: Allow --include to be specified multiple times. Add
650 * help2man.aux: Document /pattern/ syntax
652 Mon Oct 25 22:36:16 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
654 * help2man.PL: Fix odd /^x|^y/ pre-5.005 perl bug. Split tagged
655 paragraph logic into option/other. Protect leading periods in
658 * THANKS to Roland Huebner for extensive bug report.
661 Tue Oct 12 16:25:23 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
663 * help2man.PL: Protect leading dots (1.14: not released)
665 * README.sh, help2man.aux: Add ftp.gnu.org URL
666 * help2man.PL: Allow fixed-pitch examples where prefixed by $,
669 Thu Sep 2 19:43:02 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
671 * help2man.PL: Fix typo in --help (Jim Meyering)
672 Escape backslashes (Andreas Schwab/Peter Moulder)
674 * help2man.texi: (add) Texinfo docs for help2man
676 Thu Jun 24 12:17:50 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
678 * help2man.PL: Add --section option (from Okuji Yoshinori). Fixes
679 to option handling and inter-paragraph breaks.
681 Thu Jun 17 19:45:08 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
683 * help2man.PL: Defer option formatting until after paragraph
684 continuation handling
686 * Makefile.in, configure.in: (add) autoconf support
687 * configure, makefile.dist: (remove) autoconf support
688 * README.in: Rename to README.sh (so as not to be confused with
691 Wed Mar 24 21:47:18 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
693 * help2man.PL: Improved tagged paragraph/continuation handling
695 Thu Feb 25 15:58:30 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
697 * README.in, help2man.aux: Add URL for distribution
698 * help2man.PL: Increment revision (changes to help2man.aux)
700 Thu Jan 21 14:46:48 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
702 * help2man.PL: Update copyright
703 * makefile.dist: Add help2man.1 to `all' target
705 Mon Jan 11 10:42:04 1999 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
707 * help2man.PL: Handle version output with `Free' as well as `GNU'.
708 Missing backslash in initial comment (from Andreas Schwab)
710 Thu Dec 10 12:50:10 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
712 * help2man.PL: Experimental NLS version on main trunk (1.6-1.8)
713 pruned, rejoined branch 1.5.1.4 as 1.6
715 Cleaned up version format and removed François' name from
716 the code (at his suggestion).
718 * README.in: (add) Description for help2man
719 * configure: (add) Dodgy configure script for help2man
720 * help2man.aux: (add) Include file for help2man man page
721 * makefile.dist: (add) Dodgy makefile for help2man
723 Wed Nov 25 11:31:09 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
725 * help2man.PL: Join hyphenated lines in --version output
727 Tue Oct 20 20:44:46 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
729 * help2man.PL: Fix strftime locale (from Akim Demaille), add
732 Tue Oct 6 10:05:20 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
734 * help2man.PL: Remove --manhelp/oneliner mechanism
736 Sat Aug 29 04:50:02 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
738 * help2man.PL: Add --include/--opt-include options and Clark
739 Morgan's --manhelp/oneliner parsing. Merged changes from Karl
742 Thu Feb 26 10:38:34 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
744 * help2man.PL: Fix synopsis and revert `use version' to `require
745 version' as perl5.003 doesn't grok the former
747 Mon Feb 23 11:54:13 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
749 * help2man.PL: Add --output
751 Fri Feb 20 15:14:22 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
753 * help2man.PL: Made self-extracting .PL for portability; Some
754 enhancements to work with a2ps for Akim
756 Thu Feb 19 10:16:58 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
758 * help2man.PL: Fix DESCRIPTION mis-spell (from Akim Demaille)
760 Thu Jan 22 16:53:32 1998 Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>
762 * help2man.PL: (add) Generate man page from a program's --version