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2007

bc (1.06.94-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added "-pbc" to dh_installdirs line for bc in debian/rules.
     Fixes build failure with "-j3".

 -- John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>  Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:46:56 -0600

bc (1.06.94-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Uncommented dh_md5sums in debian/rules.
 
   * Corrected menu entries.

 -- John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>  Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:29:18 -0500

bc (1.06.94-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
 
     Code cleanup upstream has fixed these
     Closes: #357728: bc: Segfaults
     Closes: #221781: dc: precision >= 1000000000 does not work
     Closes: #429156: dc: segfaults when generating primes
     Closes: #296232: dc directory' should print an error
     Closes: #301921: 'man bc' typos: "environent", "specifing"
 
   * Patched use_quit() in main.c to run rl_initialize().
     Closes: #287210: bc: Interrupt should reset the input line
 
   * BC_LINE_LENGTH=0 disables the multi-line feature.
     Closes: #245899: bc: BC_LINE_LENGTH=0 or similar for ``do never split''
     should be added, or the manpage should be fixed
 
   * Upstream says this in correct POSIX behavior.
     Closes: #388487: bc: scale strangeness
 
   * Applied patch from Justin Pryzby.
     Closes: #374818: dc: maintscript prerm arguments
 
   * Remove '-s' from calls to install in debian/rules.  Fixes both bc and dc.
     Closes: #436578: bc: not handling nostrip build option (policy 10.1) sid/i386
 
   * Upstream has removed the '-E' option.
     Closes: #389345: dc: man page formatting bug
 
   * Added -DDONTEXIT to debian/rules as it is not the default.
 
   * Man page typos fixed upstream.
 
   * Added home page (such as it is) to descriptions.
 
   * Fixed make distclean call in debian/rules.

 -- John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>  Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:18:09 -0500

2006

bc (1.06-20) unstable; urgency=low

   * Had already fixed menu titles but failed to close the bug.
     Closes: #320605: Conformance with menu policy
 
   * Also had fixed typos.
     Closes: #301921: 'man bc' typos: "environent", "specifing"

 -- John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>  Sat, 7 Oct 2006 10:45:18 -0500

2005

bc (1.06-19) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed libreadline dependency.
     Closes: #326385: please rebuild with libreadline5-dev as build dependency

 -- John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>  Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:41:52 -0600

bc (1.06-18) unstable; urgency=low

   * Corrected link in copyright file.
 
   * Fixed capitalization in menu titles.
     Closes: #320605: Conformance with menu policy

 -- John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>  Sun, 28 Aug 2005 18:36:46 -0500

bc (1.06-17) unstable; urgency=low

   * New maintainer.

 -- John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>  Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:20:00 -0600

2004

bc (1.06-16) unstable; urgency=low

   * debian/rules: Applied patch by NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe@fsij.org> to
     distinguish between GNU types build and host  (Closes: #285304)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sun, 19 Dec 2004 18:08:47 -0600

bc (1.06-15) unstable; urgency=low

   * configure.in: Patch was supposed to be '-I -8' (Closes: #237957)
   * Also ran autoconf2.50 to re-create configure

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:54:22 -0500

bc (1.06-14) unstable; urgency=low

   * configure.in: Applied patch by Andreas Jochens to invoke flex
     with argument '-I 8' instead of '-I8'  (Closes: #237957)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Mon, 26 Apr 2004 19:55:50 -0500

bc (1.06-13) unstable; urgency=low

   * bc/bc.y: Apply patch by Matt Kraai to fix flex issues (Closes: #236991)
   * debian/control: Upgraded to Standards-Version: 3.6.1
   * debian/dc.menu: Quoted one more argument (thanks, lintian)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:34:02 -0600

2003

bc (1.06-12) unstable; urgency=low

   * configure.in: Avoid time skew via AM_MAINTAINER_MODE (Closes: #208195)
   * {bc,dc,lib}/Makefile.am: s/CFLAGS/AM_CFLAGS/,s/YFLAGS/AM_YFLAGS/
   * Ran 'aclocal; autoconf; automake-1.7 --gnu --add-missing --copy'
   * doc/bc.1: Patch by N. Francois with two minor corrections (Closes: #215292)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:43:21 -0500

bc (1.06-11) unstable; urgency=low

   * doc/dc.{1,texi}: Applied upstream patch by Ken Pizzini (Closes: #100344)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Mon, 12 May 2003 16:01:32 -0500

bc (1.06-10) unstable; urgency=low

   * dc/{dc.c,eval.c,dc-proto.h}: Added new upstream patch by Ken Pizzini
     which fixes one old and one new bug report(Closes: #135029, #191663)
   * dc/dc.c: Corrected function argument to pointer to string
   * debian/control: Increased Standards-Version to 3.5.9
   * debian/dc_factor: New example script

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Fri, 9 May 2003 20:20:29 -0500

2002

bc (1.06-9) unstable; urgency=low

   * dc/dc.c, doc/dc.1: Applied patch by Terran Melconian
     <terran@consistent.org> for an additional command-line argument,
     and rc file handling; also forwarded upstream (Closes: #167274)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Fri, 1 Nov 2002 23:51:51 -0600

bc (1.06-8) unstable; urgency=low

   * debian/control: Priority changed to standard as per overrides file
   * debian/control: Standards-Version upgraded to 3.5.0
   * debian/copyright: Debian/GNU Linux typo fix (lintian)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sat, 13 Apr 2002 11:33:49 -0500

2001

bc (1.06-7) unstable; urgency=low

   * bc/scan.l, bc/scan.c: Commented out three declarations that are now
     also in libreadline 4.2; mini-patch sent upstream (Closes: #100178)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sat, 9 Jun 2001 06:03:33 -0500

bc (1.06-6) unstable; urgency=low

   * The "surprise, another build-depends bug" upload
   * debian/control: Added bison to Build-Depends (Closes: #86977)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Thu, 22 Feb 2001 20:43:44 -0600

bc (1.06-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * The "there's yet another in the pipeline" revisions
   * bc/bc.y: Another small patch from upstream

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Mon, 19 Feb 2001 20:05:31 -0600

bc (1.06-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * The "Let's make it three uploads in twenty-four hours" revisison
   * debian/control: Added file, flex, texinfo, libreadline4-dev (Closes: #86593)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Mon, 19 Feb 2001 08:26:45 -0600

bc (1.06-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * bc/load.c: Another small patch from upstream

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sun, 18 Feb 2001 23:04:08 -0600

bc (1.06-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * bc/main.c: Applied modified patch from the upstream and CVSh, supplied
     in response the to the bug supplied with the bug report (Closes: #86425)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sun, 18 Feb 2001 10:06:05 -0600

bc (1.06-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Upgraded to new upstream release 1.06 (Closes: #82207)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:03:26 -0600

bc (1.05a-13) unstable; urgency=low

   * debian/control: Build-Depends on texi2html, not tetex-bin (Closes: #81196)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Thu, 4 Jan 2001 20:38:12 -0600

2000

bc (1.05a-12) unstable; urgency=low

   * debian/control: Added Build-Depends
   * debian/dc.menu: Added hints="Calculator" (Closes: #80012)
   * debian/bc.menu: Added hints="Calculator" (Closes: #80050)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Tue, 19 Dec 2000 22:09:44 -0600

bc (1.05a-11) frozen; urgency=low

   * Argh, 1.05a-10 was meant for frozen - this really closes #57908.

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sun, 13 Feb 2000 17:05:49 -0500

bc (1.05a-10) unstable; urgency=low

   * Rebuilt against libreadline4 (Closes: #57908)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sun, 13 Feb 2000 00:17:31 -0500

1999

bc (1.05a-9) unstable; urgency=low

   * Applied upstream patch by Ken Pizzini <ken@halcyon.com> to correct the
     dc.1 manual page (Closes: #48881)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Wed, 3 Nov 1999 22:10:33 -0500

bc (1.05a-8) unstable; urgency=low

   * Applied another upstream patch by Phil Nelson <phil@cs.wwu.edu>; this
     one improves the cosine and cosine and bessel functions
 
   * debian/rules: make sure we link bc with readline (Closes: #46535)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sun, 3 Oct 1999 17:00:38 -0400

bc (1.05a-7) unstable; urgency=low

   * Applied new upstream patch by Phil Nelson <phil@cs.wwu.edu> to improve
     the raise operation. Thanks to Aaron Digulla <dia@unix.swx.ch> for the
     report.
 
   * debian/rules: Adapted to use /usr/share/ following the recommendation
     on FHS transition from the Technical Committee
   * debian/rules: Test for debhelper >= 2.0.40 for FHS compliance
   * debian/control: Upgraded to Debian Policy 3.0.1

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sat, 2 Oct 1999 09:14:41 -0400

bc (1.05a-6) unstable; urgency=low

   * debian/control: Actually changed maintainer name

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Fri, 4 Jun 1999 22:54:45 -0400

bc (1.05a-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * New maintainer
   * debian/rules: Converted to debhelper
   * debian/*: Added doc-base support for dc
   * debian/{bc,dc}.{post,pre}{inst,rm}: Cosmetic changes

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Fri, 28 May 1999 23:47:40 -0400

bc (1.05a-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * debian/control (Standards-Version): updated to 2.5.0.0.
   * configure.in: changed test for readline to use READLINELIB and not
     LIBS so we can link just bc with readline (as dc doesn't use it).
     [#31473]
   * bc/Makefile.am (LDADD): add @READLINELIB@.

 -- James Troup <james@nocrew.org>  Sat, 16 Jan 1999 15:19:32 +0000

1998

bc (1.05a-3) frozen unstable; urgency=high

   * bc/scan.l (rl_len): int not char, to allow input > 128 characters in
     length without crashing.  Reported by Wakko Warner
     <wakko@ani.animx.ml.org>, Jeff Noxon <jeff@planetfall.com> and Camm
     Maguire <camm@enhanced.com>.  [#23304, #24113, #27731]

 -- James Troup <james@nocrew.org>  Mon, 9 Nov 1998 02:45:00 +0000

bc (1.05a-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * debian/control (Maintainer): new address.
   * debian/copyright: ditto.
   * Recompile with ncurses4.

 -- James Troup <james@nocrew.org>  Fri, 23 Oct 1998 18:27:44 +0100

bc (1.05a-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.
   * debian/control (Standards-Version): updated to 2.4.1.0.

 -- James Troup <jjtroup@comp.brad.ac.uk>  Tue, 30 Jun 1998 00:54:37 +0200

bc (1.04-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * debian/copyright: correct the FSF's address.
   * debian/copyright: refer to bc source package, not hello.
   * debian/control (Standards-Version): updated to 2.4.0.0.

 -- James Troup <jjtroup@comp.brad.ac.uk>  Mon, 2 Mar 1998 18:10:02 +0000

1997

bc (1.04-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Uses pristine upstream source.
   * Added menu entries.
   * debian/control: Updated Standards-Version to 2.3.0.1.
   * debian/control: Shortened dc's long description.
   * debian/rules: No longer uses {,}.
   * debian/rules: Compile with -g and -Wall.
   * debian/rules: Split binary-arch into binary-bc and binary-dc.
   * debian/rules: Lots of other minor changes.
   * bc/scan.l: Don't use readline when not interactive. (Patch from
     Andreas Schwab).  This fixes the problem of bc echoing it's input
     when used in a pipe [#16069]
   * Test/timetest: correct location of bc. (Patch from Karl Heuer)
   * lib/number.c: Fix for broken sqrt function. (Patch from Phil Nelson)

 -- James Troup <jjtroup@comp.brad.ac.uk>  Mon, 29 Dec 1997 19:34:45 +0000

bc (1.04-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Rebuilt with libc6.
   * Compiled with readline.

 -- James Troup <jjtroup@comp.brad.ac.uk>  Mon, 30 Jun 1997 01:21:23 +0100

bc (1.04-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.

 -- James Troup <jjtroup@comp.brad.ac.uk>  Wed, 30 Apr 1997 17:18:39 +0100

bc (1.03-14) unstable; urgency=low

   * Made bc flush its output unconditionally (bug #6986).

 -- James Troup <jjtroup@comp.brad.ac.uk>  Thu, 13 Feb 1997 16:56:49 +0000

bc (1.03-13) unstable; urgency=low

   * Corrected location of example files (bug #7041).

 -- James Troup <jjtroup@comp.brad.ac.uk>  Mon, 3 Feb 1997 02:50:29 +0000

bc (1.03-12) unstable; urgency=low

   * Corrected priority (optional -> important).

 -- James Troup <jjtroup@comp.brad.ac.uk>  Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:59:11 +0000

bc (1.03-11) unstable; urgency=low

   * New maintainer.
   * Updated to Standards-Version 2.1.1.2.
   * Included Austin Donnelly's fix for bug #6463.
   * Fixed dc.1 so mandb can parse it (bug #4991).

 -- James Troup <jjtroup@comp.brad.ac.uk>  Thu, 30 Jan 1997 04:07:04 +0000

Old changelog format(s), not parsed

Changes for bc-1.03-10:
	elf package
	* added dependency on libc5

Changes for bc-1.03-9:
	* rebuilt for elf

Changes for bc-1.03-8:

Priority:  Routine
Changes:  Various administrative changes
 changed extended description for the bc package to the one used by GNU.
 renamed source package debian.* files
 added SECTON field to control files
 added /usr/doc/dc with dc.texinfo man Makefile

Changes for bc-1.03-7:

1.  Fixed problem with debian.rules sed invocation for debian.control

2.  Remove several files created by the build in debian.rules clean:

Changes for bc-1.03-6:

1.  Cleaned up control file descriptions and extended descriptions.

Changes for bc-1.03-5:

1.  Changed mode of man pages from 755 to 644

Changes for bc-1.03-4:

1.  In debian.rules, added code to fix broken "orig" target.
    (This was most likely broken by my bc-1.03-3 changes) (??)

Changes for bc-1.03-3:

1.  In debian.rules:

    Changed the "d = 2" to "d = 3" to change the bc-1.03-
    line in the control files from 2 to 3.

    Changed references to source package files control.bc and
    control.dc to pre-pend "debian." to those names.

    Changed references to source package files control.bc and
    control.dc to pre-pend "debian." to those names.

    Changed references to source package files postinst.dc and
    postrm.dc to pre-pend "debian." to those names.

    Added dependency on clean to source and diff targets.

    Moved "make distclean" to the last action in the clean target
    to prevent a failure here from aborting the preceeding cleanup.

2.  Renamed files

    control.bc to debian.control.bc
    control.dc to debian.control.bc
    postinst.dc to debian.postinst.bc
    postrm.dc to debian.postrm.bc

3.  In debian.control.* changed maintainer name.

This file documents changes since maintenamce of this package
was taken over by Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com>
beginning with bc-1.03-3.