Change log for m4 package in Debian

m4 (1.4.19-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Create debian/clean, containing the files which are re-created during
    the build. This allows a source build after a successful binary build.
    Closes: #1046299.

 -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden>  Sun, 03 Sep 2023 19:55:00 +0200

m4 (1.4.19-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Add support for loongarch. Thanks to Dandan Zhang. Closes: #1030117.
  * Temporarily enable autoreconf for the above to work.
  * Call makeinfo using --output option. This allows the package to be
    built with Texinfo 7. Thanks to Hilmar Preusse. Closes: #1030352.

 -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden>  Fri, 03 Feb 2023 14:00:00 +0100

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• diff from 1.4.19-2 to 1.4.19-3 (1.3 KiB)

m4 (1.4.19-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Set upstream metadata fields Bug-Submit, Name and Repository-Browse.
  * Remove field Priority on binary package m4-doc that duplicates source.
  * Use a common debian/watch file which is valid for most GNU packages.
  * Update standards version to 4.6.2.
  * Run wrap-and-sort.

 -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden>  Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:50:00 +0100

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• diff from 1.4.19-1 to 1.4.19-2 (1.4 KiB)

m4 (1.4.19-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Fix FTBFS with glibc 2.34. Closes: #1017169.
  * Raise debhelper compatibility level from 10 to 13.
  * Skip test 198.sysval because it's buggy. Will be fixed in 1.4.20.
  * Update paths in debian/m4-doc.doc-base, as docs are now installed
    directly in /usr/share/doc/m4.

 -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden>  Mon, 15 Aug 2022 17:20:00 +0200

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• diff from 1.4.18-5ubuntu2 (in ~ci-train-ppa-service/ubuntu/4815-deletedppa) to 1.4.19-1 (2.1 MiB)

m4 (1.4.18-5) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Remove date from generated html and info files. Closes: #950419.
    Thanks to Vagrant Cascadian.
  * Raise debhelper compatibility version from 9 to 10.
  * Use https in homepage, copyright and watchfile.

 -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden>  Tue, 05 Jan 2021 23:34:00 +0100

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• diff from 1.4.18-4 to 1.4.18-5 (1.3 KiB)

m4 (1.4.18-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Move texinfo from Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends.

 -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden>  Sun, 03 Nov 2019 13:35:14 +0100

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• diff from 1.4.18-2 to 1.4.18-4 (813 bytes)

m4 (1.4.18-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fix FTBFS with glibc 2.28. Closes: #915152.
  * Rules-Requires-Root: no.

 -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden>  Sat, 01 Dec 2018 15:46:54 +0100

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• diff from 1.4.18-1ubuntu1 (in Ubuntu) to 1.4.18-2 (3.0 KiB)

m4 (1.4.18-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release, mostly portability fixes.
  * Drop 01-float-endian-detection, adopted upstream.
  * Drop 02-add-escapes-for-braces-in-perl-regex, adopted upstream.
  * Drop 99-config-guess-config-sub, no longer needed when using dh
    and a recent enough debhelper.
  * This is now a 0-patch package again, hurrah!
  * Priority: optional, following the override file.
  * Add "Suggests: m4-doc" to m4, for those who prefer documentation
    in HTML format. Closes: #805898.
  * Add the key of Eric Blake as debian/upstream/signing-key.asc and
    modify the watch file accordingly.
  * Standards-Version: 3.9.8 (no special changes for this).

 -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden>  Thu, 05 Jan 2017 19:01:38 +0100

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• diff from 1.4.17-5 to 1.4.18-1 (544.6 KiB)

m4 (1.4.17-5) unstable; urgency=medium

  * build-aux/update-copyright: Add escapes for braces in perl regex.
    New perl 5.22 gives a deprecation warning on stderr, making
    test-update-copyright.sh to fail, making the package to FTBFS.
    Reported by Chris Lamb. Closes: #808917.
  * Update config.guess and config.sub.

 -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden>  Thu, 24 Dec 2015 19:04:24 +0100

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• diff from 1.4.17-4 to 1.4.17-5 (5.3 KiB)

m4 (1.4.17-4) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Fixed lintian warning "description-synopsis-starts-with-article".
  * Fix detection of floating point endianness. Closes: #748361.
    This should make build tests to work again on ppc64el.
    Patch from Alan Modra taken from Ubuntu. Thanks a lot.
    Note: This is really a gnulib problem.
  * Updated config.guess and config.sub.

 -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden>  Sat, 17 May 2014 20:00:16 +0200

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• diff from 1.4.17-3ubuntu1 (in Ubuntu) to 1.4.17-4 (5.0 KiB)

m4 (1.4.17-3) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Moved texinfo from Build-Depends to Build-Depends-Indep and changed
    debian/rules accordingly, to ease bootstrapping. Closes: #737935.
    Patch by Daniel Schepler. Thanks a lot.

 -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden>  Thu, 06 Mar 2014 16:51:20 +0100

m4 (1.4.17-2) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Dropped --split=chapter from makeinfo invocation when generating HTML,
    it is not needed and it makes hppa build to fail. Closes: #730840.

 -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden>  Sun, 01 Dec 2013 13:53:08 +0100

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• diff from 1.4.17-1 to 1.4.17-2 (547 bytes)

m4 (1.4.17-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream release.
  * Switch from texi2html to makeinfo.
  * Added --disable-rpath to ./configure call.
  * Dropped 01-no-usr-share-info-dir-gz. debhelper sets AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no.
  * Dropped 02-workaround-for-binutils-bug-on-mips. This was Bug #519006 and
    it was fixed three years ago in binutils_2.20.51.20100925-1.
  * Dropped 03-fix-for-test-readlink. This was a gnulib issue and it was fixed
    in 2011-03-30 by commit dc44690985e727ac2ef5af783a495a369223ab69.
  * Dropped 04-fix-for-gnulib-glibc-gets. This was a gnulib issue and it was
    fixed in 2012-03-29 by commit 66712c23388e93e5c518ebc8515140fa0c807348.
  * Dropped 99-config-guess-config-sub. Current files are recent enough.
  * This is again a 0-patch package. Congratulations to all parties involved.

 -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden>  Sat, 12 Oct 2013 14:10:16 +0200

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• diff from 1.4.16-5 to 1.4.17-1 (1.1 MiB)

m4 (1.4.16-5) unstable; urgency=low


  * Added fix for gnulib compilation against eglibc 2.16, which no longer
    declares gets by default. Closes: #694952.

 -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden>  Sun, 24 Feb 2013 13:29:12 +0100

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• diff from 1.4.16-4ubuntu1 (in Ubuntu) to 1.4.16-5 (1.7 KiB)

m4 (1.4.16-4) unstable; urgency=low


  * Updated config.guess and config.sub.
  * Link against libsigsegv, recommended by upstream. Closes: #688804.

 -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden>  Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:44:20 +0200

m4 (1.4.16-3) unstable; urgency=low


  * Switch to dh.
  * Added Multi-Arch: foreign. Closes: #640783.

 -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden>  Mon, 07 May 2012 16:11:38 +0200

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• diff from 1.4.16-2ubuntu1 (in Ubuntu) to 1.4.16-3 (2.7 KiB)

m4 (1.4.16-2) unstable; urgency=medium
  * Fixed test-readlink to work with recent Linux. Closes: #630902. -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden>  Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:03:24 +0200

m4 (1.4.16-1) unstable; urgency=low
  * New upstream release.  * Use strip with prefix for cross-build.  * Dropped 03-missing-sys-stat-include, no longer needed. -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden>  Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:35:10 +0200

m4 (1.4.14-3) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Fix FTBFS problem with Ubuntu glibc. Closes: #584777.
    Thanks to Loïc Minier for the report.

 -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden>  Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:42:02 +0200

m4 (1.4.14-2) unstable; urgency=low


  * Added workaround for binutils bug which makes test suite to fail on mips.
    Patch by Arnaud Patard. Thanks a lot.

 -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden>  Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:00:10 +0100

m4 (1.4.14-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream release. Documentation is now under FDLv3+.

 -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden>  Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:23:32 +0100

m4 (1.4.13-4) unstable; urgency=low


  * Improved regex of watch file to not report "latest" as the latest version.
    Closes: #554443. Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
  * Changed the way cross-build is supported.
  * Switch to 3.0 (quilt) source format.
  * Source in tar.bz2, while we are at it.
  * Use strip, not "install -s".
  * Added homepage.

 -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden>  Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:39:22 +0100

m4 (1.4.13-3) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Changed debian/* files again for new texi2html behaviour. Closes: #552926.

 -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden>  Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:19:02 +0100

m4 (1.4.13-2) unstable; urgency=low


  * Modified doc/Makefile.in to avoid /usr/share/info/dir.gz.
  * Handle info files as indicated by policy 3.8.3.
  * Removed useless calls to install-docs.
  * Updated config.guess and config.sub.
  * Honor nocheck in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.

 -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden>  Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:09:10 +0200

m4 (1.4.13-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream release.
  * Moved to doc-base Programming section.

 -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden>  Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:51:28 +0200

m4 (1.4.11-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream release.
  * Changed copyright file to refer to the GFDL in common-licenses.

 -- Santiago Vila <email address hidden>  Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:49:04 +0200