mandoc-1.13.4 released

mandoc-1.13.4 released

[Ingo Schwarze]

Hello,

mandoc = mdocml 1.13.4 is now publicly available
from <http://mdocml.bsd.lv/>.

After more than a year of development since 1.13.3, this is a regular
maintenance release, fixing many bugs.  This release contains almost
the same mandoc code as the upcoming OpenBSD 6.0 release.  Upgrading
is recommended for all downstream projects.

There are also some new features.  In particular,

 - the man.conf(5) file format has been simplified
 - when using less(1), you can now jump to various internal targets
   like command line options, internal commands, environment
   variables, and command modifiers using the :t (tag) command
   inside less
 - a soelim(1) implementation by Baptiste Daroussin is included
 - for privilege limitation, OpenBSD pledge(2) or OS X sandbox_init(3)
   are used when available
 - man.cgi(8) now supports short URIs like http://man.openbsd.org/mdoc
 - one unified stylesheet is used rather than three different ones

See <http://mdocml.bsd.lv/NEWS> for more details about fixed bugs
and new features.

Thanks to Baptiste Daroussin, Anthony Bentley, and Todd Miller
for code contributions, Jonathan Gray for yet more testing with afl(1),
and Svyatoslav Mishyn and Sevan Janiyan for extensive release testing.
Many others sent in patches, reported bugs, suggested features,
and helped with testing, see the NEWS file for a full list.

Yours,
  Ingo

P.S.
It seems likely that this will be the last release needing SQLite
for database support.  I have started work on removing the dependency
on SQLite without loss of functionality and without needing any
replacement, relying on POSIX interfaces only.  So it is likely
that we will have a 1.14.1 release this autumn that no longer needs
SQLite.  Then again, if there is substantial demand, i might maintain
the 1.13 branch for some time in parallel.
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Re: mandoc-1.13.4 released

[Jan Stary]

Hi Ingo,

On Jul 14 16:48:20, schwarze@usta.de wrote:
> mandoc = mdocml 1.13.4 is now publicly available
> from <http://mdocml.bsd.lv/>.

testing downstream, it builds and works fine on Debian 7.10.
I have not built CGI though as I don't use it.

See below for a diff fixing a typo.

Also, the example configure.local says

  # Force usage of man.conf(5).
  # If it does not exist or contains no valid configuration,
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  # man(1), makewhatis(8), and apropos(1) will not work properly.
  HAVE_MANPATH=0

But the presence of man.conf is optional, right?

	Jan


Index: configure.local.example
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/mdocml/configure.local.example,v
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -p -r1.13 configure.local.example
--- configure.local.example	14 Jul 2016 11:09:06 -0000	1.13
+++ configure.local.example	17 Jul 2016 10:13:36 -0000
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ BINM_MAKEWHATIS=mandocdb	# default is "m
 PREFIX="/usr/local"
 HOMEBREWDIR="${PREFIX}/Cellar"
 
-# --- user settings related man.cgi ------------------------------------
+# --- user settings related to man.cgi ---------------------------------
 
 # By default, building man.cgi(8) is disabled.  To enable it, copy
 # cgi.h.example to cgi.h, edit it, and use the following line.


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Re: mandoc-1.13.4 released

[Ingo Schwarze]

Hi Jan,

Jan Stary wrote on Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 12:34:32PM +0200:
> On Jul 14 16:48:20, schwarze@usta.de wrote:

>> mandoc = mdocml 1.13.4 is now publicly available
>> from <http://mdocml.bsd.lv/>.

> testing downstream, it builds and works fine on Debian 7.10.

Thanks, noted on http://mdocml.bsd.lv/ports.html .

> I have not built CGI though as I don't use it.

No problem, that is rarely used, and people needing it will
know how to cope.

> See below for a diff fixing a typo.

Thanks, committed.

> Also, the example configure.local says
> 
>   # Force usage of man.conf(5).
>   # If it does not exist or contains no valid configuration,
>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   # man(1), makewhatis(8), and apropos(1) will not work properly.
>   HAVE_MANPATH=0
> 
> But the presence of man.conf is optional, right?

Correct.  It was required some time ago, but that's no longer true.

So i deleted the misleading sentence.  No replacement is needed.
Getting the documentation shorter without less of correctness
and clarity is always nice.

Yours,
  Ingo


Log Message:
-----------
Remove one outdated comment and fix one typo
noted by Jan Stary <hans at stare dot cz>.

Modified Files:
--------------
    mdocml:
        configure.local.example

Revision Data
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Index: configure.local.example
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mdocml/mdocml/configure.local.example,v
retrieving revision 1.13
retrieving revision 1.14
diff -Lconfigure.local.example -Lconfigure.local.example -u -p -r1.13 -r1.14
--- configure.local.example
+++ configure.local.example
@@ -91,8 +91,6 @@ MANDIR="${PREFIX}/man"
 HAVE_MANPATH=1
 
 # Force usage of man.conf(5).
-# If it does not exist or contains no valid configuration,
-# man(1), makewhatis(8), and apropos(1) will not work properly.
 HAVE_MANPATH=0
 
 # Some distributions may want to avoid naming conflicts
@@ -198,7 +196,7 @@ BINM_MAKEWHATIS=mandocdb	# default is "m
 PREFIX="/usr/local"
 HOMEBREWDIR="${PREFIX}/Cellar"
 
-# --- user settings related man.cgi ------------------------------------
+# --- user settings related to man.cgi ---------------------------------
 
 # By default, building man.cgi(8) is disabled.  To enable it, copy
 # cgi.h.example to cgi.h, edit it, and use the following line.
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