[Man-db-announce] man-db 2.7.3 released

[Colin Watson]

I've released man-db 2.7.3.

Description
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man-db contains an implementation of the man command, which is the
primary way of examining the on-line help files (manual pages).  Other
utilities provided include the whatis and apropos commands for searching
the manual page database, the manpath utility for determining the manual
page search path, and the maintenance utilities mandb, catman and
zsoelim.  The package requires a troff installation, such as groff (GNU
troff) to format and display the manual pages.

About this release
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Tools that consider the terminal line length now try the TIOCGWINSZ
ioctl on /dev/tty as well as standard input/output.

mandb does a better job of coping with index files having incorrect
ownership.

Squeeze blank lines internally rather than relying on the pager
supporting the -s option.

Fix use-after-free in ult_src.

Fix crash when running from a missing and unreadable current directory,
such as an orphaned subdirectory of /proc.

Restore the ability to use 'man -a' noninteractively.

For full details, please see the files NEWS and ChangeLog in the source
distribution.

  http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/man-db/
  http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/man-db/man-db-2.7.3.tar.xz
  http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/man-db/man-db-2.7.3.tar.xz.sig

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden

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