2009
flex (2.5.35-6) unstable; urgency=high
* [f0d7848]: Finish fixing the ia64 buffer issue. Previous commits
increased YY_READ_BUF_SIZE (where __ia64__ is defined) but left
YY_BUF_SIZE unchanged, so that didn't fix the problem in the end. In
the general case, the latter is twice the former. Therefore set it to
the same ratio in the ia64 case. Thanks to Cyril Brulebois
<kibi@debian.org> for the heavy lifting.
Bug fix: "flex scanner push-back overflow", thanks to Sergei Golovan.
(Closes: #505056)
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:10:01 -0600
2008
flex (2.5.35-5) unstable; urgency=low
* [debiandir:7eff632]: Fix race conditions in local.mk
[62a6595]: Correct a few dependencies in Makefiles
These fixes allow flex to be built using make -j3
Bug fix: "FTBFS with parallel in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Daniel
Schepler. The heavy lifting was done by Robert Millan (Closes: #507231).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:46:28 -0600
flex (2.5.35-4) unstable; urgency=low
* [f6cc9ae] Narrow buffer size changes to just IA64
Increasing the buffer size on other architectures cause problems in
corner cases not caught by the test suite. So perhaps it is not better
to increase the buffer size unilatereally for all architectures, but
to just increase it for the architecture it is required on, namely,
IA64, and leave it unchanged on other architectures. This solution
should fix the new grave bugs, while not reopening the original but
that cause this change to be done in the first place.
Grave Bug fix: flex scanner push-back overflow, thanks to Sergei
Golovan (Closes: #505056, #504030)
* [debiandir:9a6d713] Fix VCS-Browser source field.
Bug fix: Useless VCS-Browser control field, thanks to Vincent Fourmond
(Closes: #503732)
* [d58780f] Wrap ECHO macro to avoid FORTIFY warnings
This change will enable flex scanners to be compiled with
-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2, which is a good thing security wise.
Bug Fix: flex causing warnings when compiled with FORTIFY_SOURCE,
thanks to Kees Cook. (Closes: #505233, #388438)
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:52:09 -0600
flex (2.5.35-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: "debian dir contains *.so", thanks to Raphael Hertzog
This is a simple rname of a file used purely in packaging, and has low
risk, but would allow compiling the flex source package with squeeze's
packaging tools. (Closes: #485095).
* [88bb2fc] Fix generation of broken output on ia64 when input is piped in
On ia64, flex appears to generate a completely different (and broken)
output depending on whether the input file is specified using shell
redirection or via a pipe.
This was traced back commit 3971e1a917548977cff71418a7c3575ffbc9571f,
by Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>: VFS: increase pseudo-filesystem
block size to PAGE_SIZE. PAGE_SIZE on ia64 kernels is larger than most
architectures - 16K is what most distributions (including Debian)
use. An effect of the above changeset, as verified by strace, is that
the read() and write() system calls issued by flex on a pipe will use
this bigger size. fread() appears to be properly hiding the actual
read size and is returning 8192 byte buffers to flex upon request. I
verified by this by instrumenting YY_INPUT to compare the fread data
with the original input file.
Its probably useful to note that the corruption happening here is that
the last 382 lines of the input file is being prefixed to the output
file. The only differences in the remainder of the file are the #line
numbers. I've also found that bumping YY_READ_BUF_SIZE up to 16384
seems to workaround the problem - but that may just be putting it back
into hiding.
The tradeoff here is between correct operation, by making flex's
buffer at least as big as the system buffer -- and not bigger, so that
we do not waste memory. At this point, fixing the isue seems more
important than worrying that flex consumes and additional 8KB of
memory.
This fix unblocks RC bugs on other packages.
Bug fix: "Generates broken output on ia64 when input is piped vs. shell
redirection", thanks to Chris Lamb. Fix based on comments by Dann
Frazier and Michael Casadevall. (Closes: #501960)
* [56ec97d] Fix doxygen comments to reflect actual argument name
Fix the comments to reflect the actual name of the function
arguments. This is a pure documentation fix.
Bug fix: "argument 'bytes' of command @param is not found in
the argument list of tp_scan_bytes(yyconst char *yybytes, int
_yybytes_len)", thanks to Ludovic Rousseau (Closes: #488272).
* [303084a] Merge branch 'topic--buffer-size-patch' [f6cc9ae] Narrow
buffer size changes to just IA64
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:42:17 -0600
flex (2.5.35-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Record the fact that this package has moved to a new git repository.
* Move to the new, make -j friendly targets in debian/rules.
* Bug fix: "/usr/share/doc/flex-doc/.dhelp spoils purge", thanks to Dan
Jacobson (Closes: #427524).
* Bug fix: "flex-doc: bad webpage reference", thanks to Elizabeth Barham
I could not find any references to lex.sf.net (Closes: #439172).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:54:55 -0500
flex (2.5.35-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release, Mostly fixes made in NMU in Debian, plus a few
translation updates.
* NEWS: add date of release
* NEWS, parse.y: fix bug that prevented comments from working
properly
* po/de.po: new de translation
* NEWS, po/vi.po: new vi translation
* NEWS, po/nl.po: new nl translation
* NEWS, po/pl.po: new pl translation
* NEWS, po/de.po, po/pt_BR.po: new de, pt_br translations
* NEWS, flex.skl: generate headers for all functions (resolves bug
#1628314)
* NEWS, flex.skl: change yy_size_t to be size_t (resolves bug
#1849812)
* configure.in: start work on version 2.5.35
* NEWS, configure.in: revert NEWS and configure.in to version
* NEWS, configure.in: update version number to 2.5.35
* tests/test-alloc-extra/scanner.l: Use %option extra-type.
* NEWS, flex.skl, flexdef.h, main.c, parse.y, scan.l,
doc/flex.texi: Introduce %option extra-type="your_type *" (resolves
bug #1744505).
* po/nl.po: new nl translations from the translation project
* Bug fix: "flex: new lint in YY_INPUT definition", thanks to Larry
Doolittle. Closes: #466793
* Bug fix: "flex: limits of integral types are always defined", thanks
to Jean-Baptiste Note. It is true that the limits are defined by the
standard, and present in stdint.h, and so flex should not define them
on C99 systems, Closes: #443559
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:05:33 -0500
flex (2.5.34-3) unstable; urgency=low
* NMU ack. No changes since the last upload. Fix: "2.5.34-2.1 NMU diff",
thanks to Sergei Golovan. Closes: Bug#465071
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:29:27 -0600
flex (2.5.34-2.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer upload.
* Fixed a bug in parser with incorrectly added character to a ccl
(closes: #464659).
-- Sergei Golovan <sgolovan@debian.org> Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:47:32 +0300
flex (2.5.34-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Flex set yy_size_t to unsigned int; and used it where size_t was
needed, which, or course, failed on amd64 architectures. Since ANSI C
has declared size_t to be available in standard C headers since 1989,
which is 19 _years_ ago, I suspect we can start depending on size_t to
be around and set correctly -- especially on Debian.
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:26:54 -0600
flex (2.5.34-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release. This version has incorporated every single
feature and bug fix carried around by Debian, and thus all feature
branches are now sealed and merged back. Closes: #462196
* Since the version from which flex asks the question about upgrades was
released in 2003, it is time to retire the debconf question. So, the
debconf question is now gone, which means that all the translations of
the debconf translations are not required. Closes: Bug#448106, Bug#445744
Also closes: #448579, #448580, #448660, #449183, #449266, #449446, #450958
Closes: #451184, #453412
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:12:19 -0600
2007
flex (2.5.33-12) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: "flex: FTBFS if built twice in a row", thanks to Bernd
Zeimetz (Closes: #424274).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 16 May 2007 15:09:59 -0500
flex (2.5.33-11) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: "flex: [INTL:es] Spanish po-debconf translation", thanks to
César Gómez Martín (Closes: #402235).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:31:42 -0600
2006
flex (2.5.33-10) unstable; urgency=low
* Remove trailing ; from libfl.so script.
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:50:43 -0500
flex (2.5.33-9) unstable; urgency=low
* Install a version of libfl.so that is recognixed as a ld script but ld.
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 12 Sep 2006 03:35:33 -0500
flex (2.5.33-8) unstable; urgency=low
* Also install libfl.so
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:30:07 -0500
flex (2.5.33-7) unstable; urgency=low
* Typo fix in changelog. We started providing libfl_pic.a in the
previous upload, not sev3eral years ago, and the name of the static
library compiled with position independent code is libfl_pic.a.
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 7 Sep 2006 20:10:40 -0500
flex (2.5.33-6) unstable; urgency=low
* Starting with version 2.5.33-6 of flex we have started providing
a static library compiled with position independent code, namely,
libfl_pic.a. The problem is with packages that contain share
libraries with a flex scanner compiled in. Since flex generates code
that is not self contained, and the missing symbols live in
libfl.a. However, since linking a shared library with a object
containing non position independent code stopped working with gcc 4.1
(apparently, it was sheer luck that it worked at all). So now we also
provide libfl_pic.a for shared library packages to link with.
An alternative would have been to provide a full fledged
shared library, but that would have been a major break with upstream
and other distributions that also have flex, and would entail
creating new library and devel packages for flex, which is more work
that seems justified (considering that we would have to maintain the
fork, and keep track of any ABI changes, and all that).
* Bug fix: "flex: [INTL:ru] Russian debconf templates translation",
thanks to Yuri Kozlov (Closes: #382402).
* Started adding md5sums of the package, since dpkg is not ever likely
to directly support this.
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 5 Sep 2006 22:50:29 -0500
flex (2.5.33-5) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: "[INTL:lt] Lithuanian debconf translation", thanks to
Gintautas Miliauskas (Closes: #381235).
* Bug fix: "flex: warning in generated code", thanks to Martin
Michlmayr. Apply the patch from Bug#359127 to skel.c (Closes: #379763).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 6 Aug 2006 00:28:41 -0500
flex (2.5.33-4) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: "Spelling mistake in package description", thanks to Simon
Waters. reenterant -> reentrant (Closes: #363415).
* Bug fix: "flex [INTL:pt] Portuguese translation for debconf messages",
thanks to Miguel Figueiredo (Closes: #362984).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 13:11:58 -0500
flex (2.5.33-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: "cannot purge", thanks to Sebastian Rittau. Fix the package
name var in doc.postrm (Closes: #357525).
* Bug fix: "flex: project web page location doesn't work", thanks to
Martin Dorey. The sourceforge project name was changed from lex to
flex recently. (Closes: #357515).
* Updated copyright file as well, and updated the years for the
copyright.
* Please note that the CVE-2006-0459 bug with buffer overflows in
parsers generated with REJECT rules and/or trailing contexts does not
apply to flex 2.5.33
* Bug fix: "incorrect catalan translation", thanks to Carles Pina i
Estany (Closes: #359876).
* Bug fix: "flex: comparison between signed and unsigned in generated
scanner", thanks to Russ Allbery (Closes: #359127).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:12:51 -0500
flex (2.5.33-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: "flex - FTBFS: /build/buildd/flex-2.5.33/missing: line 46:
flex: command not found", thanks to Bastian Blank. Hmm. Updatimg
md5sum, thanks to some analysis by Kurt Roeckx (Closes: #354552).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 5 Mar 2006 11:38:34 -0600
flex (2.5.33-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release.
** all flex resources are now to be found from the website at
http://flex.sourceforge.net/
** there was no release 2.5.32 published
** numerous bug and security fixes
** new nl, vi, sv, ro, po, ga, ca, fr, tr translations from the
translation project
** upgrade to use gettext 0.12 (this now makes the "pdf" and "ps"
targets in the build system able to be run successfully)
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:53:27 -0600
flex (2.5.31-38) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: "flex_2.5.31-36(powerpc/unstable): FTBFS: ", thanks to Ryan
Murray. Since we already use MAINTAINER_MODE, there was no help there.
As a last resort, always touch scan.c if we do not find flex.
(Closes: #343355).
* Bug fix: "flex: [INTL:da] Danish debconf translation", thanks to Claus
Hindsgaul (Closes: #353900).
* Bug fix: "flex: Space leak in C++ scanner", thanks to Vincent Zweije
This may be a partial fix, but it seems to be good enough.
(Closes: #233215).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:53:07 -0600
flex (2.5.31-37) unstable; urgency=low
* the source code has an '#ifdef HAVE_LOCALE_H' but forgets to actually
check for locale.h in configure. The report and patch thanks to Mike
Frysinger.
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 7 Feb 2006 21:23:54 -0600
2005
flex (2.5.31-36) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: "flex: doxygen warning: argument `str' of command @param is
not found in the argumentlist", thanks to Ludovic Rousseau
(Closes: #320134).
* Bug fix: "flex generates a C file with improper macro defn; broke
Bison 2.1", thanks to Paul Eggert. Well, even though it is legal C99
to have empty arguments in macros (so it is legal to call a macro
taking one argument with no arguments), it was not legal C89 --
therefore, emit tqo different macros, with and without arguments -- to
cater to users running obsolete compilers. (Closes: #333231).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:59:05 -0500
flex (2.5.31-35) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: "yy_init_globals in header file", thanks to Oskar Liljeblad
(Closes: #322628).
* Bug fix: "flex: [INTL:sv] Swedish debconf templates translation",
thanks to Daniel Nylander (Closes: #333321).
* Bug fix: "Please provide flex++ symlink", thanks to Will Newton
(Closes: #318347).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:50:37 -0500
flex (2.5.31-34) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: "FTBFS: Cannot install HTML documentation", thanks to Matt
Kraai (Closes: #317856).
* Bug fix: "flex: doxygen warning: argument `str' of command @param is
not found in the argumentlist", thanks to Ludovic Rousseau
(Closes: #320134).
* Bug fix: "[INTL:nl] Upstream Dutch programs translation", thanks to
Luk Claes (Closes: #321080).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 8 Aug 2005 00:17:33 -0500
flex (2.5.31-33) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: "flex does not report errors to write", thanks to Bernhard
R. Link. Thanks for the patch (checks flcose and ferror return values)
(Closes: #317117).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jul 2005 02:06:29 -0500
flex (2.5.31-32) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: "INTL:vi", thanks to Clytie Siddall (Closes: #311651). * Bug fix: "[l10n] Initial Czech translation of flex debconf messages", thanks to Miroslav Kure (Closes: #308062). * Bug fix: "flex: Some members that should be const aren't", thanks to Frank B. Brokken Some members as defined in FlexLexer.h are accessors, and should be defined as `const' members, since not doing so causes problems when calling these member functions on a const object. (Closes: #287256).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jul 2005 17:22:23 -0500
2004
flex (2.5.31-31) unstable; urgency=low
* New program translation.
* Bug fix: "[INTL:nl] new dutch program translations", thanks to Luk
Claes (Closes: #283979).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:17:03 -0600
flex (2.5.31-30) unstable; urgency=medium
* This is a couple of lines fixed, and does not actually touch any code
-- just build instructions -- and allows for cross building
* Bug fix: "flex: [PATCH] cross build", thanks to NIIBE Yutaka
(Closes: #283075).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 26 Nov 2004 21:22:59 -0600
flex (2.5.31-29) unstable; urgency=low
* At popular request, error out if scan.l has been updated rather than
depend on ourselves.
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:42:16 -0600
flex (2.5.31-28) unstable; urgency=high
* This is a FTBS bug, after all. This should probably flow through to
testing.
* Bug fix: "flex: FTBFS: scan.l needs rebuild?", thanks to Kurt Roeckx
Added a build depends on flex. (Closes: #256532).
* Bug fix: "XSI:ism `-o' in debian-scripts", thanks to David Weinehall
(Closes: #261478).
* Bug fix: "flex: documentation typo (`}' instead of `{')", thanks to
Dmitry Rutsky (Closes: #267496).
* Bug fix: "[INTL:nl] New Dutch po-debconf translation", thanks to Luk
Claes (Closes: #263726).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 12 Nov 2004 21:28:58 -0600
flex (2.5.31-27) unstable; urgency=low
* Refreshed the auto-tools generated files
* Bug fix: "flex: scan.l needs rebuild?", thanks to Kurt Roeckx
(Closes: #256532).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:20:38 -0500
flex (2.5.31-26) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed the old dwww/menu entry. Now we use the preferred doc-base
registration method.
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 23 Jun 2004 00:44:20 -0500
flex (2.5.31-25) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: "flex: Please add German translation of the debconf
templates", thanks to Erik Schanze (Closes: #252726).
* Bug fix: "flex: Suspicious texinfo markup tags in info manual", thanks
to Tommi Vainikainen (Closes: #254832).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:37:32 -0500
flex (2.5.31-24) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: "flex: [INTL:fr] French translation of debconf templates",
thanks to Denis Barbier (Closes: #242636).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 2004 10:58:36 -0500
flex (2.5.31-23) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: This time, really really "flex: Typo in long description:
'setrs' instead of 'sets'", thanks to Philip Miller (Closes: #226335).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 2 Apr 2004 10:42:09 -0600
flex (2.5.31-22) unstable; urgency=low
* Moved over to po-debconf
* Bug fix: "flex: Typo in long description: 'setrs' instead of 'sets'",
thanks to Philip Miller (Closes: #226335).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 22 Feb 2004 00:13:35 -0600
2003
flex (2.5.31-21) unstable; urgency=low
* FTBFS: missing build-depends. Bah. The buildd's do not respect
Build-Depends-Indep. Duplicated the dependency into Build-Depends as a
workaround for this buildd flaw. (Closes: #224117).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:52:43 -0600
flex (2.5.31-20) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: "flex.1.gz has disappeared, leaving dangling symlinks",
thanks to Aaron M. Ucko. This was a casualty of moving to the new
build system; the man page was being installed in
/usr/share/man/man1/man1/flex.1.gz (Closes: #223071).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 2003 11:28:18 -0600
flex (2.5.31-19) unstable; urgency=low
* Thanks to a patch pointed out to me by Patrick Dreker, found on
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=829996&group_id=72099&atid=533379
Bug fix: "flex: truncated output breaks wine build", thanks to Greg
Wooledge (Closes: #188872).
* Moved to the branch new build system, made possible by moving to arch
as a SCM.
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 2003 00:16:54 -0600
flex (2.5.31-18) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: "flex: package issues invalid command to dpkg", thanks to
Jonathan Brandmeyer. The problem was in the config file; since it
assumed that $2 was always going to be installed version. Obviously,
on a fresh install, there is no installed version; and hence nothing
to send to dpkg --compare-versions. In this case, we refrain from
asking the question if "$2" is an empty string. (Closes: #219185).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 11 Nov 2003 01:31:06 -0600
flex (2.5.31-17) unstable; urgency=low
* Thanks to a patch from Joey Hess, we now use debconf to ask the
preinst question. closes: Bug#216457
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:53:16 -0600
flex (2.5.31-16) unstable; urgency=low
* Flex used to reset LC_MESSAGES, but not LC_TYPE, which resulted in
output without any non ascii characters. Now reset LC_TYPE as well.
closes: Bug#212571
* make sure that we strip as much as lintian wants, unless nostrip is
set.
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:53:23 -0500
flex (2.5.31-15) unstable; urgency=low
* AAAArrgh. Set AM_MAINTAINER_MODE in configure.in and regenerated all
auto* files. hopefully things shall no longer break with every minor
version change in autoconf. closes: Bug# 212355
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:21:06 -0500
flex (2.5.31-14) unstable; urgency=low
* ISO C 1999 says that `inttypes.h' includes `stdint.h', so there's no
need to include `stdint.h' separately in a hosted environment. And,
in any case, whenever we used to include stdint.h, we also included
inttypes.h. closes: Bug#209197
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 8 Sep 2003 17:59:17 -0500
flex (2.5.31-13) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed usage of chown root.root in the rules files.
* Refreshed config.sub, config.guess.
* removed acinclude.m4, since it was ancient and rpevented autoconf from
running.
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 14:33:12 -0500
flex (2.5.31-12) unstable; urgency=low
* changed the implementation of the yy_scan_string function to use
yy_str, as stated in the declaration, so as to allow users access to
the string "str" in #defines. I am not completely happy with this fix,
since there are other variables that may also pollute the #define name
space, but going through and modifying them all would be a significant
departure from upstream code; and I'm going to wait until someone
complains. closes: Bug#198200
* Added a reference to flex-old in the package description, mentioning
the changes in this version of flex.
* Added a warning and a question in the preinst if upgrading from an old
version of flex.
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 03:41:58 -0500
flex (2.5.31-11) unstable; urgency=low
* Added a build depends on help2man
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 May 2003 23:31:57 -0500
flex (2.5.31-10) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed an extraneous #endif in main.c, which caused gcc to barf.
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 May 2003 01:01:10 -0500
flex (2.5.31-9) unstable; urgency=low
* Well, since removing stdint.h inclusion does not fix IA64 breakage,
and including the header since we need it does seem to be the right
thing to do, and it does closes: Bug#191168
* In filter.c, after a fork, we try to reinit the standard stream
pointers stdin, stdout, and stderr -- which is a bug, since the macros
stdin, stdout, and sterr may not be modifiable lvalues (C99 says they
nmeed not be modifuable). This is also pointless, since POSIX
guarantees that the child inherits the streams from the parent. There
are no test failures from thie fix. closes: Bug#194844
* Fixed the generation of non ansi function definiton macros to include
a \, so that the parameters do not default to int (they are actually
pointers to structs), which makes the test fail on machines where ints
and pointers are a different size. closes: Bug#191672
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 May 2003 13:44:37 -0500
flex (2.5.31-8) unstable; urgency=low
* Added a patch from Bastian Kleineidam fixinf nounbistd option.
closes: Bug#193317
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 16 May 2003 15:43:46 -0500
flex (2.5.31-7) unstable; urgency=low
* remove /* in a comment, since it creates warnings under -Wall, Hit a
lot of people. closes: Bug#192450, Bug#192763, Bug#192244
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 13 May 2003 00:55:40 -0500
flex (2.5.31-6) unstable; urgency=low
* revert adding stdint.h to the 'standard C headers'since using stdint.h
macros on IA64, rather than our own, breaks things. closes: Bug#191672
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 2 May 2003 15:15:32 -0500
flex (2.5.31-5) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated the new download location in the copyright file. closes: Bug#191157 * add stdint.h to the 'standard C headers' to prevent warnings for redefinitions ofUINTN_MAX macros. (Makes sense, since the standard defines that these macros are defined in stdint.h closes: Bug#191168
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 2 May 2003 11:06:06 -0500
flex (2.5.31-4) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix flex info files; closes: Bug#190903, Bug#189963
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 27 Apr 2003 19:01:29 -0500
flex (2.5.31-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix the broken flex -l scanner generation. closes: Bug#188665
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 14 Apr 2003 03:27:05 -0500
flex (2.5.31-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Ensure that the man page gets to the right location.
closes: Bug#188751, Bug#188505
* Note that flex now requires m4
* The behaviour of flex has changed in the latest release, yes. This is
part of the gcc migration process; flex has been updated (the buggy,
rickety set of patches required to make it work with gcc was dumped in
favour of a well engineered upstream migration)
* As you may see, flex scanners have become reentrant, the c++ versions
are compatible with recent c++ compilers (conform to ANSI C++, gcc
3.2), supports bison variables yylval and yylloc. Some variables have
been renamed. Flex generates C99 defs now; see
YY_TRADITIONAL_FUNC_DEFS yylineno is present in all scanners. yylineno
is per-buffer in reentrant scanners. flex tries its best to output
only the relevant portions of the skeleton when generating a scanner,
thus avoiding as much conditional compilation as possible
* non ansi mode was broken (this only shows up on machines where
pointers and ints are not the same size). closes: Bug#188813
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 14:29:47 -0500
flex (2.5.31-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release.
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 9 Apr 2003 14:12:18 -0500
flex (2.5.4a-33) unstable; urgency=low
* Continuing the process of gcc 3.2.x compatribility. closes: Bug#185714
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:00:19 -0600
flex (2.5.4a-32) unstable; urgency=low
* There was a blank line in initscan.c that made it impossible to build
on buildds. closes: Bug#185772
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:34:13 -0600
flex (2.5.4a-31) unstable; urgency=low
* Make flexlexer have the std:: prefix closes: Bug#181670, Bug#180446 * Fix flex.skl closes: Bug#184393
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 21 Mar 2003 00:57:21 -0600
flex (2.5.4a-30) unstable; urgency=low
* FlexLexer.h now include iostream, not iostream.h.
closes: Bug#173943, Bug#180051
* Fix broken printf format closes: Bug#174350
* The behaviour of flex was different based on what order options were
specified: option nomain before option noyywrap caused one set of
behaviours, reversing the order changes the behavious, since nomain
seemed to reset noyywrap. This was fixed in scanl. and initscan.c.
closes: Bug#174259
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Sun, 9 Feb 2003 13:38:32 -0600
2002
flex (2.5.4a-29) unstable; urgency=low
* No longer provide /usr/doc link. Upgrade to latest policy version.
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 11 Nov 2002 23:17:14 -0600
flex (2.5.4a-28) unstable; urgency=low
* Anotrher patch from Alexander Klauer, this one fixes a print format
problem. closes: Bug#161101
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 29 Oct 2002 17:35:13 -0600
flex (2.5.4a-27) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix a flex segfult on very long lines. Many thanks to Alexander
Klauer <Graf.Zahl@gmx.net> for detecting this bug and finding the
fix. closes: Bug#158518
* The package seems to build from sources on i386. closes: Bug#159547
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 4 Sep 2002 19:24:56 -0500
flex (2.5.4a-26) unstable; urgency=low
* use which instead of command -v
* Fixed a problem with locales in flex. Many thanks to
witchery@www.oz.or.kr and unichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> for
discovering the problem, and patiently leading me through to a point
that I could actually reproduce the proble, and test the patch
provided by witchery@www.oz.or.kr. closes: Bug#147627
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 27 May 2002 02:09:28 -0500
flex (2.5.4a-25) unstable; urgency=high
* In this version of flex, the first YYPROTO usage appears before the
definition of YYPROTO if _WIN32 is defined. Not so good. One should be
able to generate portable lexers with flex. closes: Bug#145237
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 30 Apr 2002 12:53:45 -0500
flex (2.5.4a-24) unstable; urgency=low
* Well, the symbol is really _WIN32.
* Added clarifications about %option stdin to the flex man page (some
wording taken from CVS).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 17 Mar 2002 10:32:13 -0600
flex (2.5.4a-23) unstable; urgency=low
* Hmm. For non POSIX systems (well, where _Win32 is defined) where
unistd.h is not available, use the old isatty prototype.
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 6 Feb 2002 16:33:39 -0600
flex (2.5.4a-22) unstable; urgency=low
* Interactive lexers were broken by the fic to handle interrupted
reads. closes: Bug#131242
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:21:40 -0600
flex (2.5.4a-21) unstable; urgency=low
* Hmm. Run aclocal on the acinclude file first.
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jan 2002 16:52:23 -0600
flex (2.5.4a-20) unstable; urgency=low
* Add a build depends for autotconf, needed now that we make changes to
the script. closes: Bug#130703
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:32:25 -0600
flex (2.5.4a-19) unstable; urgency=low
* For machines that do not use the GNU libc (and thus, does not have
gettext as part of the libc), flex failed to compile. The grep package
has a macro to handle exactly this situation, elegantly, which is
labelled as available for public use, in it's aclocal.m4 file. This
version of flex uses that. Many thanks to Joel Baker
<lucifer@lightbearer.com> for discovering and testing this fix.
closes: Bug#130220
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jan 2002 10:07:16 -0600
flex (2.5.4a-18) unstable; urgency=low
* Make sure that unistd.h is actually included, since we no longer
provide a prototype for isatty. closes: Bug#97131
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jan 2002 01:02:26 -0600
flex (2.5.4a-17) unstable; urgency=medium
* AAArgggh. Fix a missing open brace in the generated YY_INPUT, Many
thanks to Bruce Stephens for catching these quickly.
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:14:35 -0600
flex (2.5.4a-16) unstable; urgency=medium
* Fix a missing \ in the generated YY_INPUT macro. closes: Bug#128412 * Fix buggy isatty prototype by not actually including a prototype (we include the relevant header file, after all. closes: Bug#97131
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jan 2002 11:51:12 -0600
flex (2.5.4a-15) unstable; urgency=low
* if a signal is delivered while the parser is in the read routine
(coded by flex), the result is flex reports and YY_FATAL_ERROR causing
plan to exit. The race condition appears much more frequently than
one might expect because plan spends a good deal of time in read
routine while gcc is preparing the input. I cleaned up another problem
case beyond what is given in the patch. closes: Bug#125611
* flex -o "ddd" doesn't write to the file "ddd", instead it tries to
write to the file "" (yes, blank) and read from "ddd". I changed the
main.c to use the next arg as the output file name if the next arg
does not start with a -. closes: Bug#122581
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jan 2002 05:12:37 -0600
2001
flex (2.5.4a-14) unstable; urgency=low
* The flex-doc menu entry (/usr/lib/menu/flex-doc) contains some
unquoted double quotes in its extended description, and these needed
to be quoted so as not to confuse update menu. (why did it not
generate an error?) closes: Bug#105272
* The version 2.5.4a-12 was duplicated work with the previous maintainer
(and I take the blame for the lack of communication). I have also
managed to mosplace the changelog entry ;-(
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 17 Jul 2001 17:50:25 -0500
flex (2.5.4a-13) unstable; urgency=low
* I took over flex, and have brought the rules and pre/post inst files
into line with my conventions.
* flex generates c++ that does not use istream and ostream from the
"std" namespace, so compilation of generated code fails. closes: Bug#104067
Please note that this duplicates and replaces the work done in 2.5.4a-12
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:48:24 -0500
flex (2.5.4a-12) unstable; urgency=low
* Generate c++ which uses istream and ostream from the "std" namespace
for g++-3.0. Patch by Dale E. Martin (Closes: #104067).
* Registered HTML docs using doc-base.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:21:18 +0200
flex (2.5.4a-11) unstable; urgency=low
* Added i18n support. Build-Depends: gettext. Closes: #46838. Thanks to Changwoo Ryu <cwryu@adam.kaist.ac.kr>. * Fixed formatting error in flex(1). Closes: #90284. Thanks to Colin Watson <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Sun, 25 Mar 2001 14:07:51 +0200
flex (2.5.4a-10) unstable; urgency=low
* Changed @section by @chapter to make texi2html happy.
Patch by Gordon Sadler <gbsadler1@lcisp.com>. Closes: #84780.
* Build-Depends-Indep: texi2html. Closes: #87689.
* Build-Depends: texinfo, since .texi is now modified.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:16:54 +0100
2000
flex (2.5.4a-9) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed manpage again. Additional patch by the author.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Fri, 1 Dec 2000 19:58:41 +0100
flex (2.5.4a-8) unstable; urgency=low
* Added missing bracket in flex manpage (Closes: Bug#68941).
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Sat, 19 Aug 2000 16:56:22 +0200
flex (2.5.4a-7) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated upstream source URL (Closes: Bug#67233). * Standards-Version: 3.1.1. * Build-Depends: bison.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 13:04:28 +0200
1999
flex (2.5.4a-6) unstable; urgency=low
* Applied a patch by Kristoffer Rose for large flex tables.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@ctv.es> Tue, 7 Dec 1999 17:52:01 +0100
flex (2.5.4a-5) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed Bug #47860: flex segfaults. Patch by the author.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@ctv.es> Wed, 10 Nov 1999 11:44:06 +0100
flex (2.5.4a-4) unstable; urgency=low
* Recommends: c-compiler, instead of gcc (Bug #33937). * Info unregistering done in prerm, not in postrm.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@ctv.es> Fri, 5 Mar 1999 17:20:30 +0100
1998
flex (2.5.4a-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Added HTML docs, in a separate package.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@ctv.es> Tue, 13 Oct 1998 21:14:28 +0200
flex (2.5.4a-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Added a man page for flex++ (actually, a symlink to flex). * ftp.gnu.org is FSF's new FTP site name. * Compressed changelog.Debian. * Removed debstd dependency.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@ctv.es> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 20:25:09 +0100
1997
flex (2.5.4a-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release, using pristine untouched source.
* Removed the modified debstd from the source package now that the
standard one is fixed.
* First libc6 release.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@ctv.es> Thu, 7 Aug 1997 19:15:34 +0200
flex (2.5.4-2) unstable; urgency=low
* libfl.a stripped using strip -g, using a modified debstd which
is included in the Debian source package.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@ctv.es> Thu, 13 Mar 1997 09:44:28 +0100
flex (2.5.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Converted to Standards 2.1.2.2. * New upstream version. * Compiled with -D_REENTRANT. * Added MD5 sums. * New maintainer.
-- Santiago Vila <sanvila@ctv.es> Sat, 22 Feb 1997 18:00:09 +0100