[Man-db-announce] man-db 2.8.5 released

[Colin Watson]

I've released man-db 2.8.5.

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

Building man-db now requires Autoconf >= 2.63 and Automake >=
1.11.2.

Fixes:
------

* Fix build with Berkeley DB.

* Fail to configure if flex is needed but missing.

* Fix the comment in the first line of the configuration file in the
  case where configure was not given a --with-config-file option.

* Fix several resource and memory leaks.

* Fix handling of \- in the right-hand side of a NAME section.

* Work around Microsoft's proprietary "System Center Endpoint
  Protection" antivirus program in the seccomp sandbox.

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

* Ship a systemd timer to perform daily database maintenance.

* Allow disabling the installation of the systemd tmpfiles snippet
  and the systemd timer by configuring with
  --with-systemdtmpfilesdir=no and --with-systemdsystemunitdir=no
  respectively.

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-2.8.5.tar.xz
  https://savannah.nongnu.org/download/man-db/man-db-2.8.5.tar.xz.asc

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       address@hidden

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