[Man-db-announce] man-db 2.7.4 released

[Colin Watson]

I've released man-db 2.7.4.

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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Fix crash when eliminating manpath duplicates if canonicalising a
manpath entry fails.

Fix a build system bug that sometimes caused substitutions in manual
pages to be left unexpanded.

man exits with status 3 rather than 0 if its formatting command exits
non-zero, even if its display command exits zero.

man honours MANWIDTH in conjunction with the -Z option, to make it
easier to diagnose warnings in manual pages.

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-2.7.4.tar.xz
  http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/man-db/man-db-2.7.4.tar.xz.sig

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden

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