This is the last call for comments for the review of debconf templates for flex. The reviewed templates will be sent on Thursday, October 25, 2007 to the package maintainer as a bug report and a mail will be sent to this list with "[BTS]" as a subject tag. --
Template: flex/upgrade/pre_2.5.5 Type: boolean Default: false _Description: Are you sure you want to upgrade flex? y 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.
Source: flex XS-VCS-Arch: http://arch.debian.org/arch/private/srivasta/grab/flex XS-VCS-Browse: http://arch.debian.org/cgi-bin/archzoom.cgi/srivasta@debian.org--lenny/flex?expand Section: devel Priority: standard Build-Depends: bison, gettext, texinfo, help2man, file, po-debconf Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Standards-Version: 3.7.2.0 Homepage: http://flex.sf.net/ Package: flex Architecture: any Pre-Depends: debconf | debconf-2.0 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, m4 Recommends: gcc | c-compiler Suggests: bison 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. 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 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. . 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. Package: flex-doc Section: doc Priority: optional Architecture: all Description: fast lexical analyzer generator - documentation This package contains the HTML documentation for flex.
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