[Man-db-announce] man-db 2.8.6 released

[Colin Watson]

I've released man-db 2.8.6.

Description
===========

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
==================

Fixes:
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* If more than one of "../man", "man", "../share/man", and
  "share/man" exist relative to a directory on $PATH, then all of
  them are now added to the automatically-determined manpath;
  previously, only the first was considered.

* Remove arbitrary limit on manpath size.

* The systemd database maintenance service now runs mandb with the
  --quiet option, avoiding excess log messages.

* Default to --without-systemdsystemunitdir and
  --without-systemdtmpfilesdir on non-Linux systems.

* Fix failure to link libman using the Darwin linker.

* "apropos -w" now works when given a non-lower-case pattern.

Improvements:
-------------

* Convert most list and hash table code to Gnulib's container types:
  these are more flexible and normally more concise than home-grown
  equivalents.

* There is a new configure option --disable-manual, which causes the
  man-db manual not to be built or installed.

For full details, please see the ChangeLog file in the source
distribution.

  https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/man-db/
  https://savannah.nongnu.org/download/man-db/man-db-2.8.6.tar.xz
  https://savannah.nongnu.org/download/man-db/man-db-2.8.6.tar.xz.asc

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [address@hidden]

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