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

Bug #1307604 reported by Gianfranco Costamagna
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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 <email address hidden> Thu, 10 Apr 2014 18:06:12 -0700

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Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco) wrote :

Unfortunately I know it won't likely hit (sadly) trusty release.

Maybe would be nice to sync it for "r" and backport, right?

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Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco) wrote :
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Unfortunately I know it won't likely hit (sadly) trusty release.

Maybe would be nice to sync it for "r" and backport, right?

According to changelog this seems to be a BUGFIX release
 1 2014-02-16 Translation Project <email address hidden>
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3 * po/ru.po: update ru translation from the translation project
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5 2014-02-14 Will Estes <email address hidden>
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7 * NEWS: mention updated da translation in release news
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9 2014-02-14 Translation Project <email address hidden>
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11 * po/da.po: update da translation from the translation project
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13 2014-02-14 Will Estes <email address hidden>
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15 * NEWS: mention updated es translation in release news
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17 2014-02-14 Translation Project <email address hidden>
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19 * po/es.po: update es translation from the translation project
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21 2014-02-14 Will Estes <email address hidden>
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23 * NEWS: mention updated ko translation in release news
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25 2014-02-14 Translation Project <email address hidden>
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27 * po/ko.po: update ko translation from the translation project
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29 2014-02-14 Will Estes <email address hidden>
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31 * NEWS: mention updated ro translation in release news
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33 2014-02-14 Translation Project <email address hidden>
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35 * po/ro.po: update ro translation from the translation project
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37 2014-02-14 Will Estes <email address hidden>
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39 * NEWS: mention updated ru translation in release news
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41 2014-02-14 Translation Project <email address hidden>
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43 * po/ru.po: update ru translation from the translation project
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45 2014-02-14 Will Estes <email address hidden>
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47 * NEWS: mention updated sv translation in news
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49 2014-02-14 Translation Project <email address hidden>
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51 * po/sv.po: update sv translation from the translation project
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53 2014-02-14 Will Estes <email address hidden>
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55 * NEWS: mention updated tr translation in news
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57 2014-02-14 Translation Project <email address hidden>
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59 * po/tr.po: update tr translation from the translation project
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61 2014-02-14 Will Estes <email address hidden>
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63 * NEWS: mention updated zh_CN in release news
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65 2014-02-14 Translation Project <email address hidden>
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67 * po/zh_CN.po: update zh_CN translation from the translation project
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69 2014-02-14 Will Estes <email address hidden>
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71 * NEWS, po/LINGUAS, po/zh_TW.po, po/zh_tw.po: rename zh_tw
72 translation to its proper zh_TW name
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74 2014-02-14 Will Estes <email address hidden>
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76 * NEWS: mention updated nl, vi translations in release news
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78 2014-02-14 Translation Project <email address hidden>
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80 * po/vi.po: update vi translation from the translation project
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82 2014-02-14 Translation Project <email address hidden>
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84 * po/nl.po: update nl translation from the translation project
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86 2014-02-14 Will Estes <email address hidden>
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88 * TODO: remove some unneeded entries from the todo l...

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Sync for 'u', right?

To get it into -updates, it should follow https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates
To get it into -backports, it should follow https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports#Requesting_a_Backport

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Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco) wrote :

yes, if you cannot for trusty would be nice to have it for "u" release, anyway do you think is feasible for an SRU? I see all bugfix here

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Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco) wrote :

or maybe SRU for trusty?

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Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco) wrote :

please wait for the -4 release, the -3 fixes the upgrade problem, but introduces a regression because of a typo in rules file

summary: - Sync flex 2.5.39-1 (main) from Debian unstable (main)
+ Sync flex 2.5.39-4 (main) from Debian unstable (main)
description: updated
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

I'm unsubscribing the sponsors team for now. It looks like -4 is not available yet.

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Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco) wrote :

-4 just uploaded in debian, will be available in a few hors

description: updated
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Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco) wrote :

Hi Mattias, sorry for subscribing you, can you please explain why of this delta?
" * Preseed autoconf vars ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=yes and
    ac_cv_func_realloc_0_nonnull for cross builds."

Manoj says that it can be dropped since automatically handled by dh, can you please confirm or tell if the change is needed also in debian?

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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote :

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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Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco) wrote :

yes, but why do you need to preseed them? is it a bug in autoconf? shouldn't this change be merged in debian too?

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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote :

Matthias, in recent /etc/dpkg-cross/cross-config.cache I see:

# Common libc things - global until someone finds a reason not to
ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=yes
ac_cv_func_realloc_0_nonnull=yes

Whilst the argumentation provided above is wrong (it's unrelated to dh) it does appear that by default (if dpkg-cross caches are used) we can drop this change. Do you want to explicitly support cross-building without dpkg-cross caches?

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

Am 28.04.2014 12:53, schrieb Dimitri John Ledkov:
> Matthias, in recent /etc/dpkg-cross/cross-config.cache I see:
>
> # Common libc things - global until someone finds a reason not to
> ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=yes
> ac_cv_func_realloc_0_nonnull=yes
>
> Whilst the argumentation provided above is wrong (it's unrelated to dh)
> it does appear that by default (if dpkg-cross caches are used) we can
> drop this change. Do you want to explicitly support cross-building
> without dpkg-cross caches?

well, it failed on our cross auto builder. Does it work now without these?

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