[Man-db-announce] man-db 2.8.4 released

[Colin Watson]

I've released man-db 2.8.4.

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

Fixes:
------

* Rely on decompressors reading from their standard input rather
  than redundantly passing them the input file on their command
  line.  This works better with downstream AppArmor confinement of
  decompressors.

* Fix invalid syntax in tmpfiles.d/man-db.conf when configured with
  --disable-cache-owner.

* Make seccomp sandbox allow sched_getaffinity, sometimes used by
  xz.

* Check for mandb_nfmt and mandb_tfmt in the manual page hierarchy
  as documented, not in the current directory.  This was broken by
  the working-directory-handling changes in 2.8.3.  Note that this
  change means that "man -l" will never use an external formatter
  (which was never documented behaviour and was surely a bad idea).

* Make seccomp sandbox allow some shared memory operations across
  the board rather than just when ESET File Security is in use; the
  Astrill VPN seems to require something similar, and there are
  doubtless other such preload hacks.

* Some versions of ESET File Security call msgget and msgsnd; if
  this program is in use, then allow those.

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-2.8.4.tar.xz
  https://savannah.nongnu.org/download/man-db/man-db-2.8.4.tar.xz.asc

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden

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