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Changelog build-essential (12.8ubuntu1.1)

2020

build-essential (12.8ubuntu1.1) focal; urgency=medium

   * Add riscv64 post to cross-targets. LP: #1891460

2019

build-essential (12.8ubuntu1) eoan; urgency=medium

   * Merge with Debian; remaining changes:
     - Add pkgbinarymangler to the list of essential cross packages.

build-essential (12.8) unstable; urgency=high

   * Stop building crossbuild-essential-mips{,64}el.

build-essential (12.7ubuntu1) eoan; urgency=medium

   * Merge with Debian; remaining changes:
     - Add pkgbinarymangler to the list of essential cross packages.

build-essential (12.7) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Bump dependencies on gcc and g++ to 9.2.
   * Bump standards version.
   * Stop build crossbuild-essential-mips.
   * Regenerate lists of essential packages.

build-essential (12.6ubuntu1) disco; urgency=medium

   * Merge with Debian; remaining changes:
     - Add pkgbinarymangler to the list of essential cross packages.

build-essential (12.6) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Bump dependencies on gcc and g++ to 8.3.
   * Regenerate lists of essential packages.
   * Bump standards version.

2018

build-essential (12.5ubuntu2) bionic; urgency=medium

   * Fix dependency generation for the amd64 cross package.

build-essential (12.5ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium

   * Merge with Debian; remaining changes:
     - Add pkgbinarymangler to the list of essential cross packages.

build-essential (12.5) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Bump dependencies on gcc and g++ to 7.3.
   * Regenerate lists of essential packages.
   * Build crossbuild-essential-amd64, crossbuild-essential-i386.
   * Bump standards version.

2017

build-essential (12.4ubuntu1) artful; urgency=medium

   * Merge with Debian; remaining changes:
     - Build cross packages for arm64, armhf and powerpc.
     - Add pkgbinarymangler to the list of essential cross packages.

build-essential (12.4) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Bump dependencies on gcc and g++ to 7.2.
   * Build crossbuild-essential-mips, crossbuild-essential-mips64el,
     crossbuild-essential-s390x,
   * Bump standards version.

build-essential (12.3) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Bump debhelper and standards versions.
   * Bump dependencies on gcc and g++ to 6.3.

2016

build-essential (12.2) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Bump dependencies on gcc and g++ to 5.3.
   * For cross packages, drop libc-dev dependency on libc-dev.

2015

build-essential (12.1ubuntu2) wily; urgency=medium

   * Build crossbuild-essential-s390x.

build-essential (12.1ubuntu1) wily; urgency=medium

   * Merge with Debian; remaining changes:
     - Build cross packages for arm64, armhf and powerpc.
     - Add pkgbinarymangler to the list of essential cross packages.

build-essential (12.1) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Bump dependencies on gcc and g++ to 5.2.
   * Fix generating essential-package-list files for !linux targets (Pino
     Toscano). Closes: #772593.
   * Update package lists.

2014

build-essential (12) experimental; urgency=medium

   * Update package lists.
   * Add missing architectures to the cross list (Thorsten Glaser).
     Closes: #697702.
   * Enable cross builds for armel, armhf, arm64, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el.
     Closes: #766551.

2013

build-essential (11.6ubuntu6) trusty; urgency=low

   * Update package lists.

build-essential (11.6ubuntu5) saucy; urgency=low

   * Add package list for AArch64.

build-essential (11.6ubuntu4) raring; urgency=low

   * Remove pkgbinarymangler from list.cross, it's not build-essential
     for native builds, so it's not build-essential for cross either.

build-essential (11.6ubuntu3) raring; urgency=low

   * Build-depend on python3:any instead of python3.

build-essential (11.6ubuntu2) raring; urgency=low

   * Regenerate the control file.

build-essential (11.6ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

   * Merge with Debian; remaining changes:
     - Build cross packages for arm64, armhf and powerpc.
     - Add pkgbinarymangler to the list of essential cross packages.
   * Update essential packages lists (Ubuntu archs only).

build-essential (11.7) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Update Standards-Version to 3.9.5.
   * Build-depend on python3:any instead of python3. Closes: #750976.
   * Add package lists for new architectures.
   * Regenerate the autotools files.

build-essential (11.6) unstable; urgency=low

   * Update Standards-Version to 3.9.4.
   * Build-depend on python3 instead of python.
   * Update make-esslist.sh to consider ports archives and distros.
     Closes: #603386.
   * Update essential packages lists.
   * Build crossbuild-essential-<arch> packages for architectures
     provided in debian/cross-targets (currently all commented out).
     Closes: #693220.

2010

build-essential (11.5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Bump dependencies on gcc and g++ to 4.4.3.
   * Re-add explicit dependency on gcc. Closes: #536038.
   * Update essential packages lists. Closes: #545890.

2008

build-essential (11.4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Regenerate the essential packages lists, including armel.
   * Increased versioned dependency on gcc and g++ to 4.3.1 (not alpha),
     to 4.2.4 (alpha).
   * Depend on hurd-dev [hurd-i386]. Closes: #456549.
   * Update package description. Closes: #480677.

2006

build-essential (11.3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Regenerate the essential packages lists, including amd64. Closes: #317336.
   * Increased versioned dependency on gcc and g++ to 4.1.1.
   * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.2. No changes required.

build-essential (11.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * New maintainer.
   * Tighten versioned dependency on gcc and g++ to the versions
     with the libstdc++ allocator change. Closes: #343028.

2005

build-essential (11.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * If the source doesn't ship with an essential-package-list for the
     building architecture, create an empty one instead of failing.

build-essential (11) unstable; urgency=low

   * Increased versioned dependency on gcc and g++ to 4.0.
   * Increased versioned dependency on dpkg-dev to 1.13.5 to provide
     support for the OS and CPU variables.
   * Updated policy references to 3.6.1.1.  Closes: #313277.
   * Regenerated essential-package-list files.  In line with dpkg, these
     now only exist for architectures in sid, all of the empty ones have
     been removed.
     - ncurses-base added for sh (creating this file)
     - login added for hurd-i386

2004

build-essential (10.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added (empty) amd64, kfreebsd-i386, knetbsd-i386 and powerpc64
     eseential-packages-list files.

2003

build-essential (10) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed make-esslist.sh.
   * Added (empty) netbsd-i386 essential-packages-list file.
   * Remove strange \xB4 character from list, change to a '.  Closes: #199235.
   * Cleaned up package: removed {arch} cruft (moved to a subversion
     repository) and tidied and converted use of autotools to foreign
     to eliminate some unnecessary files.  Closes: #210500.
   * Removed dependency on cdbs and reverted to pure debhelper.
   * Remade essential-list files, initscripts got included.

build-essential (9.7) unstable; urgency=low

   * New maintainer.

build-essential (9.6) unstable; urgency=low

   * Add libc6-dev-sparc64 to list for sparc (Closes: #207770).

build-essential (9.5.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Clean and re-autogen so as to ensure that aren't using
     symlinks to the various autotools scripts (Closes: #205836).

build-essential (9.5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Make ia64 use libc6.1-dev (Closes: #203238)

build-essential (9.4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Pass --copy to automake-1.7 so we actually include install.sh and
     stuff (Closes: #197501).

build-essential (9.3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Package is Debian-native again.
   * Switch to gcc-3.3 (Closes: #195213)
   * debian/rules:
     - Cosmetic fixes.

build-essential (9.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.
   * debian/control:
     - Bump Standards-Version to 3.5.10, no changes required.
     - Add Build-Depends on cdbs.
   * debian/rules:
     - Convert to cdbs.
   * debian/rocks:
     - Removed.

build-essential (9.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * The "It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into
     Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles
     and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait." release.  (Courtesy
     of Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf).
   * New upstream release.
     - Makes ia64 use libc6.1-dev (Closes: #188444)
   * debian/rules:
     - Update to the latest version of Colin's Build System.

build-essential (9-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.
     - Depends on gcc 3.2 (Closes: #175596)

build-essential (8-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Convert to autoconf and automake.
   * Rewrite list2depends.lhs in new Python version "list2depends".  Delete
     old Haskell version.
   * New script to generate essential pacakges list "make-esslist.sh",
     taken from old Makefile.
   * Regenerate essential packages list.
   * Remove 'hellos' test sources.
   * debian/rules:
     - Convert to Colin's Build System.
   * debian/control:
     - New maintainer (Closes: #174849).
     - Build-Depend on debhelper.
     - Drop Build-Dependency on hugs, add one on python.
     - Standards-Version: 3.5.8.
   * debian/rocks:
     - New file, converted from old debian/rules.
   * postinst.build-essential, prerm.build-essential:
     - Obsolete files, the /usr/doc transition is over.  Deleted.
   * debian/copyright:
     - Convert from obsolete national charset ISO-8859-1 into UTF-8, and
     add myself to copyright holders.

2002

build-essential (7) unstable; urgency=low

   * list: GNU/Hurd has now libc0.3-dev.  Closes: #144523.
   * Makefile, debian/rules: Make $(esslist) arch-specific and build it
     (at make-esslist time) from the official sarge Packages files off the net.
     This is as good as it'll get without net access from the build daemons.
     Closes: #95704.
   * debian/rules: Install $(esslist) into $(sharedir),
     and install a symlink from there to $(docdir), closes: #137189.
   * ran "make make-esslist"
   * debian/control: Upgrade priority to optional, following the ftpmaster lead.

build-essential (6) unstable; urgency=low

   * ran "make make-esslist", again.
   * debian/rules: Install list into $(sharedir),
     and install a symlink from there to $(docdir),
     closes: #134390.
   * Updated debian/librules.mk.
   * debian/control: Updated Standards-Version to 3.5.6.
   * debian/copyright: Updated copyright year list.

2001

build-essential (5) unstable; urgency=low

   * list: Hurd has libc0.2-dev.  Closes: #101271.
   * ran "make make-esslist".  Partially addresses #95704.

2000

build-essential (4) unstable; urgency=low

   * list: Make dpkg-dev requirement versioned, closes: #70736.
   * debian/control [Build-Depends]: No need to build-depend on dpkg-dev,
     since the version requirement is satisfied by the build-essential
     packages now.
   * debian/control [Description]: Reworded a little.

build-essential (3) unstable; urgency=low

   * debian/rules [debian/stamp/build]: make more robust against missing
     build-time dependencies, closes: #67677
   * debian/copyright: update copyright year

1999

build-essential (2) unstable; urgency=low

   * list: Noted that although the list is not authoritative, it attempts
     to be accurate.
   * list2depends.lhs: Added lots of comments and restructured the program a
     little to make it more readable.
   * debian/README.build-system: New file, documenting the build system
     and especially the librules.mk file.
   * debian/rules: Don't install the list2depends program.
   * debian/rules: Made to conform to what debian/README.build-system specifies.

build-essential (1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New package.