man-db-2.11.0

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

man-db 2.11.0 (15 October 2022)

Fixes:

• mandb now correctly records filters in the database if it uses cached whatis information.
• Upgrade Gnulib, fixing syntax error on glibc systems with GCC 11.
• The CATWIDTH configuration file directive now overrides MINCATWIDTH and MAXCATWIDTH.
• Database entries for links were often incorrectly stored as if they were entries for the ultimate source of the page. They are now stored with the correct type.
• Store links in the database using the section and extension of the link rather than of the ultimate source file.
• Consider pages for adding to the database even if they seem to already exist; this performance optimization is no longer needed due to caching, and it produced inconsistent results in some unusual cases.
• man now runs any required preprocessors in the same order that groff does, rather than trusting the order of filters in a page's preprocessor string.
• Fix building on MinGW. (I haven't been able to test this; help from MinGW experts would be welcome.)

Improvements:

• Add more recognized case variants for localized versions of the NAME section.
• Maintain multi keys in sorted order, improving database reproducibility.
• Pick a more consistent name for the target of a whatis entry in the database.
• Extend rules for when to replace one database entry with another, producing more stable behaviour.
• Fully reorganize databases after writing them, allowing the reproduction of bitwise-identical databases regardless of scan order (at least with GDBM).

[Bruce Dubbs]

Changes in man-pages-6.01

New and rewritten pages

• EOF.3const

Newly documented interfaces in existing pages

• fanotify_mark.2
  • FAN_MARK_IGNORE

• open.2, statx.2
  • STATX_DIOALIGN

• feature_test_macros.7
  • _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3
  • _TIME_BITS

Global changes

Build system:

• Update manual page dates (TH 3rd argument) when creating the tarball with 'make dist'. this removes the need for a tstamp commit before each release.

• Don't print spurious errors from the Makefile that are not relevant.

Manual pages' sections:

• Title (.TH):
  • Remove the hardcoded date (TH 3rd argument), and replace it by a placeholder that should be changed when creating the tarball. This removes the need for a tstamp commit before each release.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit 3f4304998a76ef3bd6141cf7a32cb6740bf032a6.