Package: flex Version: N/A Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Debian maintainer,
On Monday, October 08, 2007, I notified you of the beginning of a review process concerning debconf templates for flex. The debian-l10n-english contributors have now reviewed these templates, and the proposed changes are attached to this bug report. Please review the suggested changes are suggested, and if you have any objections, let me know in the next 3 days. Please try to avoid uploading flex with these changes right now. The second phase of this process will begin on Monday, October 29, 2007, when I will coordinate updates to translations of debconf templates. The existing translators will be notified of the changes: they will receive an updated PO file for their language. Simultaneously, a general call for new translations will be sent to the debian-i18n mailing list. Both these calls for translations will request updates to be sent as individual bug reports. That will probably trigger a lot of bug reports against your package, but these should be easier to deal with. The call for translation updates and new translations will run until about Monday, November 19, 2007. Please avoid uploading a package with fixed or changed debconf templates and/or translation updates in the meantime. Of course, other changes are safe. Please note that this is an approximative delay, which depends on my own availability to process this work and is influenced by the fact that I simultaneously work on many packages. Around <DAY25>, I will contact you again and will send a final patch summarizing all the updates (changes to debconf templates, updates to debconf translations and new debconf translations). Again, thanks for your attention and cooperation. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
--- flex.old/debian/templates.master 2007-10-06 19:13:47.502874919 +0200 +++ flex/debian/templates.master 2007-10-26 07:12:59.709940170 +0200 @@ -1,16 +1,23 @@ +# These templates have been reviewed by the debian-l10n-english +# team +# +# If modifications/additions/rewording are needed, please ask +# [EMAIL PROTECTED] for advice. +# +# Even minor modifications require translation updates and such +# changes should be coordinated with translators and reviewers. + Template: flex/upgrade/pre_2.5.5 Type: boolean Default: false _Description: Are you sure you want to upgrade flex? - This version of Flex is a major upgrade from previous - versions. There have been extensive changes. Flex scanners - are now reenterant, you may have multiple scanners in - the same program with differing sets of defaults, and - they play nicer with modern C and C++ compilers. The flip - side is that Flex no longer conforms to the POSIX lex - behaviour, and the scanners require conforming - implementations when flex is used in ANSI C mode. The package - flex-old provides the same behaviour as version 2.5.4a of Flex. + The behavior of Flex has undergone a major change since version + 2.5.4a. Flex scanners are now reentrant: they can have multiple + scanners in the same program with differing sets of defaults, and + they play nicer with modern C and C++ compilers. The flipside is that + Flex no longer conforms to the POSIX lex behavior, and the scanners + require conforming implementations when Flex is used in ANSI C + mode. The package flex-old provides the older behavior. . Please make sure you are prepared for these changes in Flex before continuing with its upgrade. --- flex.old/debian/control 2007-10-06 19:13:47.502874919 +0200 +++ flex/debian/control 2007-10-23 07:13:35.495172873 +0200 @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Build-Depends: bison, gettext, texinfo, help2man, file, po-debconf Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Standards-Version: 3.7.2.0 +Homepage: http://flex.sf.net/ Package: flex Architecture: any @@ -13,35 +14,31 @@ Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, m4 Recommends: gcc | c-compiler Suggests: bison -Description: A fast lexical analyzer generator. - flex is a tool for generating scanners: programs which recognized lexical - patterns in text. flex reads the given input files for a description of a +Description: fast lexical analyzer generator - binaries + Flex is a tool for generating scanners (programs which recognize lexical + patterns in text). It reads the given input files for a description of a scanner to generate. The description is in the form of pairs of regular - expressions and C code, called rules. flex generates as output a C source - file, lex.yy.c, which defines a routine yylex(). This file is compiled + expressions and C code, called rules. It generates as output a C source + file, lex.yy.c, which defines a routine yylex(). This file is compiled and linked with the -lfl library to produce an executable. When the executable is run, it analyzes its input for occurrences of the regular expressions. Whenever it finds one, it executes the corresponding C code. . - The behaviour of Flex has undergone a major change since version - 2.5.4a; Flex scanners are now reentrant, you may have multiple + The behavior of Flex has undergone a major change since version + 2.5.4a. Flex scanners are now reentrant: they can have multiple scanners in the same program with differing sets of defaults, and - they play nicer with modern C and C++ compilers. The Flip side is - that Flex no longer conforms to the POSIX lex behaviour, and the - scanners require conforming implementations when flex is used in ANSI - C mode. The package flex-old provides the older behaviour. + they play nicer with modern C and C++ compilers. The flipside is that + Flex no longer conforms to the POSIX lex behavior, and the scanners + require conforming implementations when Flex is used in ANSI C + mode. The package flex-old provides the older behavior. . This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors. The upstream source code can be found at - http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/flex/flex-2.5.33.tar.bz2?download - The project web page is at http://flex.sf.net/ + http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/flex/flex-2.5.33.tar.bz2?download. Package: flex-doc Section: doc Priority: optional Architecture: all -Description: Documentation for flex (a fast lexical analyzer generator) - This package contains the HTML documentation for flex. The upstream - source code can be found at - http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lex/flex-2.5.31.tar.bz2?download - The project web page is at http://lex.sf.net/ +Description: fast lexical analyzer generator - documentation + This package contains the HTML documentation for flex.
