[Bug 1307604] Re: Sync flex 2.5.39-4 (main) from Debian unstable (main)

[Matthias Klose]

the conversion to debhelper has nothing to do with pre-seeding autoconf
values for cross builds


** Changed in: flex (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Sync flex 2.5.39-4 (main) from Debian unstable (main)

Status in “flex” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Please sync flex 2.5.39-4 (main) from Debian unstable (main)

  Explanation of the Ubuntu delta and why it can be dropped:
    * Preseed autoconf vars ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=yes and
      ac_cv_func_realloc_0_nonnull for cross builds.
    * Resynchronise with Debian.  Remaining changes:
      - Split the flex package into flex and libfl-dev, with flex as a
        Multi-Arch: foreign package depending on a Multi-Arch: same libfl-dev,
        so that flex works for cross-building.

  according to the maintainer, the first change is fixed with package dh switch
  second one merged in debian too

  Changelog entries since current trusty version 2.5.35-10.1ubuntu2:

  flex (2.5.39-1) unstable; urgency=medium

    * New upstream release
    * internationalization: added support for various languages. Fix make
      install target to not fail when the flex++ program is already
      installed. various portability fixes that quiet compiler warnings on
      64-bit hosts. numerous bug fixes.
    * Moved to a new dh based build system. Also moved to a 3.0 source
      format, using debcherry.
    * Bug fix: "cross build support", thanks to Eleanor Chen. We have moved
      to a standard dh based build, so we should not have this issue any more.
      (Closes:    #719955).
    * Bug fix: "examples not included into binary packages", thanks to Carl
      Fürstenberg. Examples are in this version.  (Closes: #560387).
    * Bug fix: "new upstream release 2.5.37", thanks to Peter Eisentraut
      (Closes: #729759).
    * Bug fix: "flex, new release available for download", thanks to
      Gianfranco Costamagna (Closes: #736345).
    * Bug fix: "please mark flex as Multi-Arch: allowed", thanks to Steve
      Langasek. Redid the patch to work with dh.     (Closes: #611230).
    * Updating to a new build system means that the changes made to the
      build system in the NMU are not needed, dh does the right thing.
    * The new upstream release added the prototypes in re-entrant mode, so
      we are no longer carrying those patches.

   -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta at debian.org>  Thu, 10 Apr 2014 18:06:12
  -0700

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