Change log for manpages package in Ubuntu

manpages (6.17-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 6.17
    - Refresh patches
    - Add 0BSD to known licenses
  * Update Standards-Version to 4.7.3
  * Replace FSF postal address with their website
  * Update lintian overrides
  * Fix lintian warnings
    - missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright
    - space-in-std-shortname-in-dep5-copyright
  * Update d/copyright

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:31:51 +0100

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manpages (6.16-1build1) resolute; urgency=medium

  * Rebuild to clear amd64v3 from FTBFS report

 -- Jeremy Bícha <email address hidden>  Thu, 18 Dec 2025 07:47:53 -0500

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manpages (6.16-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 6.16
    - Refresh patches
    - Add new Build-Depends on awk and pcre2-utils

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Sun, 02 Nov 2025 21:55:41 +0100

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manpages (6.15-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 6.15 (Closes: #1098520)
    - Refresh patches
    - Exclude usr/bin files from being installed in the binary package
    - Include man2 and man3 directories with appendices
  * Update debian/watch to v5
  * Use MAKEFLAGS += -R
  * Disable autotest for now
  * Reformat shell scripts with shfmt and use shellcheck
  * Update scripts to handle new upstream directory layout
  * Update Standards-Version to 4.7.2, no changes needed
  * Remove Rules-Requires-Root from d/control
  * Update d/copyright

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:03:54 +0200

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manpages (6.9.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 6.9.1
    - Refresh patches
  * Update d/copyright
  * Update d/move_links_to_correct_package
  * Clean up list of known files
  * motd.5: Add missing full stop in Debian patch.
  * tzfile.5: Add missing manpage section to timezone(3).
  * Update patch to include man2constdir
  * Update lintian overrides for manpages and manpages-dev

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Mon, 18 Nov 2024 11:17:43 +0100

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manpages (6.8-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Remove packages from Build-Depends to allow migration to testing.
    There's no clear explanation in d/changelog or the commit
    messages as to why all those packages should be needed.
    However, it hinders testing migration (currently due to the
    dependency on iwyu).
  * Use wrap-and-sort -at
  * Add missing Breaks and Replaces glibc-doc (<< 2.37-16) for manpages-dev.
    Thanks to Andreas Beckmann <email address hidden> (Closes: #1072158)

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Fri, 07 Jun 2024 23:16:21 +0200

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manpages (6.8-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 6.8.
  * Refresh patches.
  * Move new manpage links to correct package.
  * Adjust path in d/update_copyright
  * Update copyright file.
  * d/rules: update conflicting manpages list to remove.
  * Use a more robust approach to limit manpages installation to
    FHS-compliant directories (Thanks to upstream author: Alx)
  * Bump to Standards-Version 4.7.0 (no changes required).

 -- Marcos Fouces <email address hidden>  Wed, 22 May 2024 22:16:44 +0200

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manpages (6.7-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Marcos Fouces ]
  * Add breaks/replace in manpage-dev (Thanks to Andreas Beckman).

  [ Sven Joachim ]
  * d/check-conflicts: avoid large temporary file
  * d/check-conflicts: also check for manpages in arch:all packages
  * Update d/rules with check-conflicts script (Closes: #1068166)

 -- Marcos Fouces <email address hidden>  Tue, 02 Apr 2024 18:20:34 +0200

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manpages (6.7-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 6.7
  * Remove exceptions in d/rules.
  * Refresh patches.
  * Add workaround for proc_config.gz.5 installation as
    dh_installman believes that is a compressed file.
  * Add to d/move_links_to_correct_package:
    ~ man7/sigevent.7
  * Fix links also in section 7 manpages.
  * Add missing GPL-3 license.
  * Update d/copyright.
  * Remove unused Lintian overrides.
  * Add cpplint,cppcheck and lzip to Build-Depends (needed for tests).
  * Export needed locale in d/rules (LC_ALL=C.UTF-8).

 -- Marcos Fouces <email address hidden>  Sun, 31 Mar 2024 22:57:48 +0200

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manpages (6.05.01-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Alejandro Colomar ]
  * New upstream version 6.05.01 (Closes: #1059353)
    - Refresh patches
    - Update dh_auto_test for new upstream make 'check' target
    - Add Build-Depends on groff (>= 1.23.0) and mandoc for new upstream
      make 'lint-man' target
    - Update d/copyright

  [ Dr. Tobias Quathamer ]
  * Reformat d/update-copyright script with python formatter 'black'
    and update for new upstream licenses
  * Add more files to skip due to failing tests

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Sat, 23 Dec 2023 16:36:23 +0100

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manpages (6.03-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Add Breaks/Replaces for inn2-dev (<< 2.7.0-1).
    Thanks to Helge Kreutzmann <email address hidden> (Closes: #1034958)

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Sun, 30 Apr 2023 12:42:06 +0200

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manpages (6.03-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 6.03
  * Refresh patches.
  * d/rules & d/move_links_to_correct_package: add support for
    link handling in man3head directory.
  * Update d/copyright.

 -- Marcos Fouces <email address hidden>  Wed, 15 Feb 2023 17:45:03 +0100

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manpages (6.02-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Debian Janitor ]
  * debian/copyright: use spaces rather than tabs to start continuation lines.
  * Remove constraints unnecessary since buster (oldstable):
    + manpages: Drop versioned constraint on attr and keyutils in Replaces.
    + manpages: Drop versioned constraint on attr and keyutils in Breaks.
    + manpages-dev: Drop versioned constraint on libattr1-dev and libbsd-dev in
      Replaces.
    + manpages-dev: Drop versioned constraint on libattr1-dev and libbsd-dev in
      Breaks.

  [ Penn ]
  * Changed man-browser from suggested to recommended

  [ Marcos Fouces ]
  * New upstream version 6.02
  * Refresh patches for new upstream release.
  * d/manpages.doc: remove *.Announce files installation as they no
    longer exist.
  * d/rules & d/move_links_to_correct_package: add support for
    link handling in man3const directory.
  * d/move_links_to_correct_package:
    ~ Add stpecpy.3.
    ~ Add stpecpyx.3
    ~ Add ustpcpy.3
    ~ Add ustr2stp.3
    ~ Add zustr2stp.3
    ~ Add zustr2ustp.3
  * d/manpages(-dev)?.lintian-overrides
    ~ Fix mismatched overrides by fixing line numbering of
      occurrences.
  * d/copyright: update running d/update-copyright.
  * d/README.Debian: all its content is redundant, obsolete
    or inaccurate so it is better to remove it.
  * d/README.Upstream: redirect users to canonical source of information
    on how to contribute to the man-pages project.
  * Bump to Standards-Version 4.6.2 (no changes required).
  * Fix manpages package description in d/control (Closes: #1023218).

 -- Marcos Fouces <email address hidden>  Wed, 28 Dec 2022 18:04:08 +0100

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manpages (6.01-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 6.01
  * man*/*
    ~ Fix groff warning in glob.7.
  * d/POSIX-MANPAGES:
    ~ Update posix manual pages packaging history in
      d/POSIX-MANPAGES (Closes: #1016415).
  *d/patches/*:
    ~  Refresh patches for new upstream release.
  * d/manpages(-dev)?.manpages:
    ~ Rename from install files (*.install => *.manpages).
    ~ Add new non-FHS dirs to manpages-dev.install: man3type,
      man2type, man3head and man3const.
  * d/rules:
    ~ Run dh_installman before testing for broken links.
    ~ Define --language=C option in dh_installman to avoid *.so
      suffix being interpreted as a translation.
    ~ Change destination of links pointing to non-FHS dirs
      i.e. .so man3type/*.3type => .so man3/*.3type.
  * d/move_links_to_correct_package:
    ~ Update list of known files.
    ~ Handle non-FHS directories and manual pages extensions.
  * d/control:
      because FILE.3 is no longer a link to SYSTEM_DATA_TYPES.7
      and is not moved to manpages package.
    ~ Update descriptions to reflect the fact that manpages
      package also includes manual pages from
  * d/LICENSES/*. Add missing licenses used in this package:
    ~ GPL-1+
    ~ BSD-2-clause
    ~ Linux-man-pages-copyleft
  * d/update-copyright:
    ~ Search for "SPDX-License-Identifier: " string instead of
      the previous "%%%LICENSE_START" to check the manual pages
      license.
    ~ Add missing licenses and their upstream names.
    ~ Handle manual pages on non-FHS directories.
  * d/copyright:
    ~ Automatic update running d/update-copyright python script.
    ~ Minor manual tweaks.
  * d/manpages(-dev)?.lintian-overrides
    ~ Fix mismatched overrides by fixing line numbering of
      occurrences.

 -- Marcos Fouces <email address hidden>  Fri, 21 Oct 2022 22:55:41 +0200

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manpages (5.13-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Dr. Tobias Quathamer ]
  * Add new Debian and upstream branch names to gbp.conf
  * Refresh patches
  * Update d/copyright
  * Add Marcos as comaintainer. Welcome!

  [ Marcos Fouces ]
  * New upstream version 5.13 (Closes: #981171)
  * Refresh patches.
  * d/debian/move_links_to_correct_package:
    ~ Add blkcnt_t.3
    ~ Add blksize_t.3
    ~ Add cc_t.3
    ~ Add mode_t.3
    ~ Add sockaddr.3
    ~ Add socklen_t.3
    ~ Add off64_t.3
  * Set proper installation path.
  * Bump to debhelper-compat 13.
  * Reinstall file.3 as it is no longer conflicts with newer release
    of inn2-dev.
  * Remove upstream signing key. It is used to sign a list of SHA256
    checksums that isn't compatible with uscan.
  * Update d/copyright file.
  * Rename Lintian tag in override file:
    spelling-error-in-manpage => typo-in-manual-page
  * Bump Standards-Version to 4.6.1 (no changes required).
  * Add Rules-Requires-Root:no stanza in d/control.
  * Don't remove tmpfs.5 man page as it no longer conflicts with
    newer initscripts releases. (Closes: #951598).

 -- Marcos Fouces <email address hidden>  Wed, 11 May 2022 23:19:00 +0200

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manpages (5.10-1ubuntu0.1) hirsute; urgency=medium

  * kernel_lockdown.7: Remove description of unsupported lockdown lift
    mechanism via SysRq. LP: #1931171.

 -- dann frazier <email address hidden>  Thu, 10 Jun 2021 13:26:47 -0600

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manpages (5.10-1ubuntu1) impish; urgency=medium

  * kernel_lockdown.7: Remove description of unsupported lockdown lift
    mechanism via SysRq. LP: #1931171.

 -- dann frazier <email address hidden>  Thu, 10 Jun 2021 13:18:47 -0600

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manpages (5.10-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 5.10
    - Refresh patches
  * Update d/copyright

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Tue, 22 Dec 2020 14:25:08 +0100

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manpages (5.09-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Resolve file conflict with manpages-dev=5.08-1.
    Thanks to Adam Borowski <email address hidden> (Closes: #973846)

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Fri, 06 Nov 2020 10:08:51 +0100

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manpages (5.09-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 5.09
    - Refresh patches
    - Do not include man3/list.3, conflicts with inn2-dev
  * Update d/copyright

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Thu, 05 Nov 2020 10:48:14 +0100

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manpages (5.08-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 5.08
    - Refresh patches
  * Update d/copyright

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Sat, 22 Aug 2020 17:23:29 +0200

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manpages (5.07-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 5.07
    - Refresh patches
  * Update d/copyright

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:27:08 +0200

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manpages (5.06-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 5.06
    - Refresh patches
    - Document that timerfd_settime can fail with ECANCELED. Closes: #947091
  * Update d/copyright
  * Disable usage of pristine-tar

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Sun, 12 Apr 2020 15:15:19 +0200

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manpages (5.05-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 5.05
    - Refresh patches
  * Update d/copyright
  * Update Standards-Version to 4.5.0, no changes needed

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Sun, 09 Feb 2020 21:49:27 +0100

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manpages (5.04-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 5.04
    - Refresh patches
  * Update d/copyright

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Thu, 21 Nov 2019 10:45:53 +0100

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manpages (5.03-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 5.03
    - Refresh patches
  * Update d/copyright
  * Update Standards-Version to 4.4.1, no changes needed

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Sat, 12 Oct 2019 14:27:14 +0200

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manpages (5.02-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 5.02
    - getutline(3): missing #include in example program. Closes: #932382
    - Refresh patches
    - Update d/copyright
  * Update Standards-Version to 4.4.0, no changes needed
  * Set myself as maintainer. Thanks to Joey for his work on this package!
  * Switch to debhelper-compat and use v12

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Fri, 02 Aug 2019 23:19:35 +0200

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manpages (5.01-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 5.01
    - Fix manpage for rename.2. Closes: #915874
    - Add crypt.3 and crypt_r.3 to list of conflicting manpages
    - Update d/copyright
    - Refresh patches

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Tue, 09 Jul 2019 20:20:42 +0200

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manpages (4.16-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Include removed manpages from attr and keyutils.
    Both projects have moved some of their manpages to the
    Linux man-pages project.
    - attr: getxattr.2, listxattr.2, removexattr.2, setxattr.2,
      and their f*xattr.2 and l*xattr.2 links. Also attr.5.
    - keyutils: keyrings.7, persistent-keyring.7, process-keyring.7,
      session-keyring.7, thread-keyring.7, user-keyring.7,
      user-session-keyring.7.
    (Closes: #825022)

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Tue, 07 May 2019 20:15:46 +0200

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manpages (4.16-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 4.16
    - Refresh patches
  * Update Standards-Version to 4.1.4, no changes needed

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Sat, 05 May 2018 14:59:16 +0200

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manpages (4.15-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 4.15
    - Refresh patches
  * Update d/copyright
  * Update d/watch to version 4, remove broken signature checking
  * Use debhelper v11
  * Switch Vcs-URLs to salsa.d.o
  * Update Standards-Version to 4.1.3, no changes needed

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Fri, 02 Feb 2018 22:05:07 +0100

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manpages (4.14-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 4.14
    - Document security problems with system.3 and popen.3. Closes: #882222
    - Refresh patches
  * Update d/copyright
  * Use HTTPS for upstream homepage
  * Update Standards-Version to 4.1.1
    - Use HTTPS for d/copyright

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Sun, 26 Nov 2017 21:23:01 +0100

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manpages (4.13-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Add Breaks/Replaces to manpages and manpages-dev.
    Thanks to Andreas Beckmann <email address hidden> (Closes: #876128)
  * Fail if there is no Breaks/Replaces for a newly moved file

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:07:04 +0200

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manpages (4.13-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 4.13
  * Remove Simon Paillard from Uploaders on request of the MIA team.
    Thanks a lot for your work! (Closes: #873265)
  * Refresh patches
  * Update conflicting files
  * Update d/copyright
  * Update to Standards-Version 4.1.0, no changes needed

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Fri, 15 Sep 2017 23:19:18 +0200

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manpages (4.12-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Add Replaces and Breaks for libbsd-dev (<< 0.8.4-1)
    Thanks to Andreas Beckmann <email address hidden> (Closes: #870225)

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Mon, 31 Jul 2017 22:01:35 +0200

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manpages (4.12-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 4.12
    - Fix wrong mentioning of POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE flag in posix_madvise(3)
      Closes: #865699
  * Refresh patches
  * Update conflicting files
  * Update d/copyright
  * Update Standards-Version to 4.0.0, no changes needed

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Sat, 22 Jul 2017 23:45:02 +0200

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manpages (4.11-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 4.11
  * Refresh patches
  * Update conflicting files
  * Update d/copyright
  * Use faster approach to check for file conflicts

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Sun, 18 Jun 2017 23:04:54 +0200

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manpages (4.10-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Remove conflicting files. (Closes: #859514, #859511)

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Wed, 05 Apr 2017 20:17:49 +0200

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manpages (4.09-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Do not install tmpfs.5 (Closes: #847998)
    This is a temporary fix to allow the installation with initscripts,
    because the manpage tmpfs.5 has been newly introduced in manpages 4.09.
    In the long run, the naming conflict should be sorted out between
    manpages and initscripts.

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Tue, 13 Dec 2016 17:28:01 +0100

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manpages (4.09-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Imported Upstream version 4.09 (Closes: #574041, #839705, #840499)
    - Refresh patches
    - Drop 0012-mdoc.7.patch (applied upstream)
  * Remove console-tools from Replaces, the package is only in oldstable
  * Remove libc-{,dev-}bin from Replaces, the packages are no longer available
  * Remove bind from Replaces, the package is no longer available
  * Remove glibc-doc from Replaces, that package version is no longer available
  * Remove libaio-dev from Replaces, the file conflict has been resolved
  * Add Multi-Arch: foreign to binary packages
  * Update d/copyright

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Mon, 12 Dec 2016 22:09:59 +0100

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manpages (4.08-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Imported Upstream version 4.08
  * Refresh patches
  * Update d/copyright
  * Switch to debhelper v10

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Sat, 08 Oct 2016 15:14:08 +0200

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manpages (4.07-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Imported Upstream version 4.07
  * Refresh patches
  * Update d/copyright
  * Update Standards-Version to 3.9.8, no changes needed

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Tue, 19 Jul 2016 20:21:20 +0200

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manpages (4.06-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Imported Upstream version 4.06
  * Refresh patches
  * Update d/copyright
  * Remove strict NMU rules, don't seem to apply anymore

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Wed, 11 May 2016 17:35:22 +0200

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manpages (4.05-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Imported Upstream version 4.05
    - write.2: Document behaviour on tty devices. (Closes: #797479)
    - clearenv.3: Clarify the use and effect of clearenv(). (Closes: #679323)
    - perror.3: Suggest use of strerror(3) in place of deprecated
      'sys_errlist'. (Closes: #794876)
    - printf.3: Remove stray asterisk in "NAN*". (Closes: #756599)
    - unicode.7: Document "Private Use Areas". (Closes: #285444)
  * Do not install sk98lin.4 (Closes: #780544)
  * Refresh patches
  * Remove obsolete installation script
  * Update d/copyright and d/watch

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Wed, 16 Mar 2016 17:23:06 +0100

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manpages (4.04-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Update copyright to DEP-5 format
  * Remove superfluous priority from binary package
  * Reduce d/rules using debhelper 9
    - Add d/manpages.docs for debhelper
    - Rename lintian override files for dh_lintian
    - Install upstream's changelogs
  * Remove Ubuntu specific patch which is not needed any longer
  * Remove obsolete manpage for LDP.7
  * Remove obsolete manpage of missing manpages.
    This manpage is severely outdated, some bugs have been fixed
    already years ago, other bugs do no longer apply to this package,
    and the list is incomplete. Moreover, missing manpages are
    now tracked upstream on the website.
  * Remove obsolete manpage undocumented.7.
    This manpage was provided in order to comply with an ancient
    policy version. The manpage is no longer needed since Nov 2002.
    Closes: #506653, LP:#426359

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Mon, 15 Feb 2016 14:02:08 +0100

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manpages (4.04-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Acknowledge NMU
  * Add myself as uploader
  * Update Vcs-* URLs
  * Downgrade Priority from important to standard to match ftp-master's
    override
  * d/control: Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.7, no changes needed
  * Use debhelper v9
  * Revert direct changes to upstream sources
    - Add patches as separate files
    - Add Ubuntu specific patch

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Mon, 08 Feb 2016 10:37:35 +0100

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manpages (4.04-0.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Non-maintainer upload.
  * Imported Upstream version 4.04 (Closes: #785178)
    . cerf*.3 manpages have been removed upstream. (Closes: #765592)
    . vfprintf.3: Add note about thread safeness of %m. (Closes: #621057)
    . console.4: Is now included in this package. (Closes: #774022)
    . tzfile.5: Remove double "SEE ALSO" section (Closes: #765596)
  * Make build reproducible, thanks to Jérémy Bobbio. (Closes: #774852)
  * Update d/inst with current list of sid manpages

 -- Dr. Tobias Quathamer <email address hidden>  Tue, 05 Jan 2016 12:13:34 +0100

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manpages (4.02-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version, including those changes:
    - random.4: Fix permissions shown for the devices (lp: #1397652)
    - resolv.conf.5: Document RES_SNGLKUPREOP (lp: #1110781)
    - proc.5: Document /proc/PID/status VmPin field (lp: #1071746)
  * debian/rules:
    - don't ship attr manpage to avoid conflict with that package

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>  Wed, 04 Nov 2015 16:05:28 +0100

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manpages (3.74-1ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable.  Remaining changes:
    - debian/patches/01_ubuntu_ptrace_notes.patch:
      - Document Yama-specific PTRACE_ATTACH behaviour
        which has been the default in Ubuntu since maverick.

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• diff from 3.65-1ubuntu1 to 3.74-1ubuntu1 (331.9 KiB)

manpages (3.65-1ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable.  Remaining changes:
    - debian/patches/01_ubuntu_ptrace_notes.patch:
      - Document Yama-specific PTRACE_ATTACH behaviour
        which has been the default in Ubuntu since maverick.

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manpages (3.61-1ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable.  Remaining changes:
    - debian/patches/01_ubuntu_ptrace_notes.patch:
      - Document Yama-specific PTRACE_ATTACH behaviour
        which has been the default in Ubuntu since maverick.
  * debian/patches/01_ubuntu_ptrace_notes.patch:
    - convert to quilt patch, fix the location of the note
      in the man-page
    - add DEP-3 header

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manpages (3.54-1ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #1233910); remaining changes:
    - man2/ptrace.2: Document Yama-specific PTRACE_ATTACH behaviour
      which has been the default in Ubuntu since maverick.

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• diff from 3.52-1ubuntu1 to 3.54-1ubuntu1 (133.0 KiB)

manpages (3.52-1ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  * Resynchronize with Debian unstable, remaining changes:
    - man2/ptrace.2: Document Yama-specific PTRACE_ATTACH behaviour
      which has been the default in Ubuntu since maverick.

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• diff from 3.51-1ubuntu1 to 3.52-1ubuntu1 (179.7 KiB)

manpages (3.51-1ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  * Resynchronize with debian (LP: #1179064), remaining changes:
    - man2/ptrace.2: Document Ubuntu-specific PTRACE_ATTACH
  * man2/prctl.2: PR_SET_PTRACER now documented upstream, change dropped.

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manpages (3.44-0ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    - new manpages: phys.2 getauxval.3 secure_getenv.3
 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden>   Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:33:14 +1300

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manpages (3.42-1ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable.  Remaining changes:
    - Document Ubuntu-specific PTRACE_ATTACH, PR_SET_PTRACER behavior.
  * Ship man1/getent.1 again, and bump libc-bin Replaces to (<< 2.16)

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manpages (3.40-0.1ubuntu3) quantal; urgency=low

  * debian/rules:
    - Delete the man1/getent.1
 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden>   Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:53:28 +1200

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manpages (3.40-0.1ubuntu2) quantal; urgency=low

  * man1/getent.1:
    - Drop for now, it's still in libc-bin (LP: #1017289)
 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden>   Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:27:49 +1200

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manpages (3.40-0.1ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * Merge with Debian unstable; remaining Ubuntu changes:
  * man2/ptrace.2:
  * man2/prctl.2:
    - Document Ubuntu-specific PTRACE_ATTACH, PR_SET_PTRACER behavior.
 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden>   Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:02:12 +1200

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manpages (3.35-0.1ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian testing/unstable; remaining changes:
    - ptrace.2, prctl.2: document Ubuntu-specific PTRACE_ATTACH,
      PR_SET_PTRACER behavior.
    - Fix typo in the scanf documentation: use ';' to terminate C code
      example line instead of ':'. Bug fixed upstream in 3.36.

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manpages (3.32-0.2ubuntu2) precise; urgency=low

  * Fix typo in the scanf documentation: use ';' to terminate C code example
    line instead of ':'. Bug fixed upstream in 3.36. (LP: #891854)
 -- Soumyadeep Chanda <email address hidden>   Sat, 25 Feb 2012 20:02:05 +0530

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manpages (3.32-0.2ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian testing/unstable; remaining changes:
    - ptrace.2, prctl.2: document Ubuntu-specific PTRACE_ATTACH,
      PR_SET_PTRACER behavior.
  * Keep Debian's glibc-doc version in the Replaces as it's satisfactory for
    upgrades from natty and lucid.

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manpages (3.27-1ubuntu2) natty; urgency=low

  * Bump manpages-dev's Replaces on glibc-doc to << 2.12.1-0ubuntu11 as this
    is when the pthread manpages were removed; LP: #669361.
 -- Loic Minier <email address hidden>   Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:02:12 +0100

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manpages (3.27-1ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable; remaining changes:
    - ptrace.2, prctl.2: document Ubuntu-specific PTRACE_ATTACH,
      PR_SET_PTRACER behavior.

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manpages (3.26-1ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable; remaining changes:
    - ptrace.2, prctl.2: document Ubuntu-specific PTRACE_ATTACH,
      PR_SET_PTRACER behavior.
 -- Loic Minier <email address hidden>   Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:51:09 +0100

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manpages (3.25-1ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian unstable (LP: #668739), remaining changes:
    - prctl.2: add notes about PR_SET_PTRACER, specific to Ubuntu.

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manpages (3.24-1ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * prctl.2: add notes about PR_SET_PTRACER, specific to Ubuntu.
 -- Kees Cook <email address hidden>   Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:21:25 -0700

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manpages (3.24-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version
    . Remove crufty statement in setuid(2) that seteuid() is not in POSIX
      (closes: Bug#569812)
    . Fix description of 'nochdir' argument in daemon(3) (closes: Bug#554819)
    . Fix NAME line in path_resolution(7) (closes: Bug#558300)
  
 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden>   Sun,  09 May 2010 13:57:07 +0100

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manpages (3.23-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version
 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden>   Mon,  30 Nov 2009 23:46:03 +0000

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manpages (3.22-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version
    . Correction to clone(2) (closes: Bug#533868)
    . Improvement to environ(7) (closes: Bug#528628)
 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden>   Thu,  05 Nov 2009 10:39:38 +0000

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manpages (3.21-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version

 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden>   Fri,  01 May 2009 20:30:50 +0100

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manpages (3.20-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version
    . Add explicit character set encoding to first line of several
      manpages (closes: Bug#519209)
    . Fix type of 'offset' argument in seekdir(3) and return type in
      telldir (closes: Bug#519230)
    . Small fix to description in strftime(3) (closes: Bug#516677)
    . Fix 'argp' type for KDGETLED description in console_ioctl(4)
      (closes: Bug#517485)
    . Add description of /srv in hier(7) (closes: Bug#520904)
    . Fix types used to declare sin6_family and sin6_port in ipv6(7)
      (closes: Bug#517074)
  * Corrected fclose(3)

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manpages (3.15-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream source
  * Avoid distribution of more up-to-date pthread manpages that are
    currently also provided by glibc-doc:
    . pthread_cleanup_push_defer_np(3)
    . pthread_cleanup_pop_restore_np(3)

 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden>   Mon,  15 Dec 2008 10:20:50 +0000

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manpages (3.14-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version
    . Fix description of range of function value return in atan2(3)
      (closes: Bug#506299)
    . Clarify and add more detail in RETURN VALUE description in
      getpwnam(3) and getgrnam(3) (closes: Bug#504787)
    . Add text on use of pointer arguments to makecontext(3) (closes:
      Bug#504699)
    . Document that LOG_KERN messages can't be generated from user
      processes in syslog(3)
  * Avoid distribution of more pthread manpages that are currently also
    provided by glibc-doc:
    . pthread_attr_setinheritsched(3)
    . pthread_cancel(3)
    . pthread_cleanup_pop(3)
    . pthread_cleanup_push(3)
    . pthread_setcancelstate(3)
    . pthread_setcanceltype(3)
    . pthread_testcancel(3)

 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden>   Mon,  01 Dec 2008 08:17:20 +0000

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manpages (3.13-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Stop distributing more pthread manpages that are also provided by
    glibc-doc (closes: Bug#506479):
    . pthread_attr_getschedpolicy(3)
    . pthread_attr_getschedparam(3)
    . pthread_attr_setschedpolicy(3)
    . pthread_attr_setschedparam(3)
    . pthread_getschedparam(3)
    . pthread_setschedparam(3)

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