They just upgaded 'less'

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Author: Derek Neighbors
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Subject: They just upgaded 'less'
ec said:
> Is it still there in the 'new' distro and just changed
> or is it gone??? Inquiring minds want to know.
>
>
> --- Michael Havens <> wrote:
>>
>> I found durring my nightly dist-upgrade that 'less'
>> has changed. I wonder what
>> they did to it?


Only unstable has changed. Here is the changelog from the last version
update:

less (381-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Standards-Version: 3.6.1. No changes required.
  * debian/lesspipe.1: Put quotes around the command line examples
    Closes: #201901: lesspipe: man page update for zsh
  * Changed short description from
    "A file pager program, similar to more(1)" to
    "Pager programm similar to more".
    Closes: #218836: poor short description
  * debian/lesspipe: Support *.iso, *.raw, *.bin files.
    Closes: #230556: lessfilter to list contents of ISO files (CD images)


-- Thomas Schoepf <> Wed, 4 Feb 2004 15:25:37 +0100

Since it was last udated March 3rd 2003, I presume these are the only
changes unless you are running a really stale version of unstable. :)

So the only "functional" change is it now supports *.iso, *.raw and *.bin
files.

For Inquiring minds,

Derek