This is the release of man-pages-6.05. The release tarball will soon be
avaliable at <kernel.org>. A PDF version of the pages will also be
uploaded in the same page.
A change from man-pages-6.04 merits a mention in this release, as it
wasn't properly documented in the previous release notes:
- Add make(1) 'check' target. This has been split from 'lint'.
'lint' will check the source code, and 'check' will check the
rendered pages (as a user will read them). There are currently
several pages that fail this `make check`, and distributors that
depend on this can workaround it by touching a few files:
- Types:
- Document functions using off64_t as if they used off_t (except
for lseek64()).
- Build system:
- Keep file modes in the release tarball.
- Fix symlink installation (`make install LINK_PAGES=symlink`).
- Add support for using bzip2(1), lzip(1), and xz(1) when installing
pages and creating release tarballs.
- Create reproducible release tarballs.
- Move makefiles from lib/ to share/mk/.
- Support mdoc(7) pages.
- Relicense Makefiles as GPL-3.0-or-later.
- Build PostScript and PDF manual pages.
- Add support for running our build system on arbitrary source
trees; this makes it possible to easily run our linters on another
project's manual pages as easily as `make lint MANDIR=~/src/groff`
- Licenses:
- Relicense ddp.7 from VERBATIM_ONE_PARA to Linux-man-pages-copyleft.
- Relicense dir_colors.5 from LDPv1 to GPL-2.0-or-later.
- Use new SPDX license identifiers:
- Linux-man-pages-1-para (was VERBATIM_ONE_PARA)
- Linux-man-pages-copyleft-2-para (was VERBATIM_TWO_PARA)
- Linux-man-pages-copyleft-var (was VERBATIM_PROF)