[Man-db-announce] man-db 2.5.6 released

[Colin Watson]

I've released man-db 2.5.6.

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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This is largely a bug-fix release, but also includes a new 'man -K'
option to search the full text of all manual pages, as well as support
for interpreting pairs of manual page names given on the command line as
equivalent to a single manual page name containing a hyphen (e.g. 'man
foo bar' => foo-bar(1)) suggested by various posters to the git mailing
list.

For full details of these and of the other improvements in this release,
please see the files docs/NEWS and docs/ChangeLog in the source
distribution.

  http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/man-db/
  http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/man-db/man-db-2.5.6.tar.gz
  http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/man-db/man-db-2.5.6.tar.gz.sig

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden

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