Re: mandoc-1.14.1 released

[Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>]

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Thanks for the new release!

Here are two things which I’ve noticed while packaging it for Debian:

• using LN="ln -sf" results in an absolute symlink for the whatis.1
manpage, which we need to then change into a relative one to prevent our
tooling from choking on them:
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/mdocml.git/commit/?id=86403b72b1c47780cc626e046d65db04d2e3b622

• The following lintian warning indicates a spelling error:
  I: mandoc: spelling-error-in-manpage usr/share/man/man7/mandoc_roff.7.gz
parantheses parentheses

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 3:34 AM, Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> i'm pleased to announce the public release of portable mandoc-1.14.1.
> It is available now from http://mdocml.bsd.lv/ .
>
> All downstream maintainers are encouraged to update their ports and
> packages from 1.13.4 to 1.14.1.
>
> Mandoc 1.14.1 is a major feature release introducing
>  * semantic search functionality without needing SQLite3
>  * improved less(1) :t support (ctags-like internal searching)
>  * much improved -Thtml output and CSS
>  * a new catman(8) utility thanks to Michael <Stapelberg at debian dot org>
>  * a portable version of the OpenBSD mandoc regression suite
> plus some minor new features and heaps of bugfixes, many of them
> due to Theo Buehler's work with afl(1).  For more details, see the
> full release notes:  http://mdocml.bsd.lv/NEWS
>
>
> Note that mandoc-1.14.1 is quite similar to what will ship in
> OpenBSD 6.1.  The new mandoc.db(5) file format is in production in
> OpenBSD-current for more than six months now.  So even though this
> is the first release in the 1.14 branch, i consider the code very
> solid by now and call it 1.14.1 rather than 1.14.0.
>
> The release was tested on the following systems:
>  * OpenBSD-current and OpenBSD-stable
>  * FreeBSD 12-current, FreeBSD 11.0, and FreeBSD 10.3
>  * NetBSD 7.99.58-current
>  * DragonFlyBSD 4.7.0-DEVELOPMENT
>  * illumos and OmniOS
>  * Debian Linux 8.4-jessie
>  * Void Linux x86_64 glibc, aarch64 musl, and armv7l musl
>  * Crux Linux 3.3
>  * Ubuntu Linux sid, stretch, and 14.04 Trusty Tahr
>  * SunOS 5.11.2, 5.10, and 5.9
>  * OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan and 10.4.11 Tiger
>
> For now, catman(8) is not supported on OS X Tiger, SunOS 5.10,
> and SunOS 5.9, and the regression suite cannot be used on
> SunOS 5.10 and SunOS 5.9, but everything else works everywhere,
> including full database suppport and semantic searching.
>
>
> For systems who cannot change the database format, most notably
> FreeBSD-stable, i will also roll a 1.13.5 release soon,
> which will contain all the bugfixes and all the new features
> except the switch away from SQLite3 and except catman(8).
> But don't use that unless you must; the new databases with 1.14.1
> are smaller, faster to build, and faster to access than SQLite,
> without any loss of functionality.
>
> Enjoy,
>   Ingo
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>


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Best regards,
Michael

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