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