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Changelog gap (4r8p8-3)

2018

gap (4r8p8-3) unstable; urgency=medium

   * debian/rules:
     - do not ship obsolete bin/sysinfo.gap file
   * debian/rules, debian/gap2deb:
     - support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS nocheck. Thanks Helmut Grohne.
       Closes: #890260.
   * debian/control:
     - Mark gap-libs Multi-Arch: foreign

gap (4r8p8-2) unstable; urgency=medium

   * debian/control, debian/gap2deb:
     - Bump Standards-Version to 4.1.3
   * debian/control:
     - mark gap-doc Multi-Arch: foreign
   * debian/watch, debian/gap2deb:
     - switch from ftp to https URL.
   * debian/rules:
     - set FORCE_SOURCE_DATE = 1

2017

gap (4r8p8-1) unstable; urgency=medium

   * New upstream release
     - Note that gap-gdat 4r8p8 is identical to gap-gdat 4r8p5.
   * debian/control:
     - gap-doc: Recommends gap-gapdoc. Closes: #872250.

gap (4r8p7-1) unstable; urgency=medium

   * New upstream release
     - Note that gap-gdat 4r8p7 is identical to gap-gdat 4r8p5.
     - patch upstream-fix-buffering: removed: applied upstream
     - fix-sparc64: added: configure support for sparc64
   * debian/control, debian/compat, debian/gap2deb
     - Bump Standards-Version to 4.0.0
     - Move to debhelper v9

2016

gap (4r8p6-2) unstable; urgency=medium

   * New patch:
     - upstream-fix-buffering: from Christopher Jefferson.  Closes: #844789
       Fix a buffering issue after loading a workspace.
   * Add dbgsym packages

gap (4r8p6-1) unstable; urgency=medium

   * New upstream release
     + Note that gap-gdat 4r8p6 is identical to gap-gdat 4r8p5.
     + fix-gzip-stringfile: removed: applied upstream

gap (4r8p5-1) unstable; urgency=medium

   * New upstream release. New patch:
     + fix-gzip-stringfile: from upstream: fix gzip support in StringFile.

gap (4r8p4-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
     + Note that gap-gdat 4r8p4 is identical to gap-gdat 4r8p3.
   * patches:
     - fix-pperm: removed: applied upstream
     - fix-MY_CLOCK: partially merged upstream
     - gac-object: removed: applied upstream
     - remove-infopackage-warning: disable warning for missing packages by
       default.
   * debian/control:
     - gap: Adjust Recommends/Suggests list to include the new packages
       available and to match PackagesToLoad.
   * doc: Fix cross-references to other GAP packages.
     + debian/control:
       - Build-Depends-Indep on gap-character-tables, gap-atlasrep
     + debian/rules:
       - Add links to ctbllib and atlasrep in pkg.

gap (4r8p3-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * patches:
     - convert.pl-repro: apply fix for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH from Jerome Benoit.
       Closes: #821302.
     - fix-MY_CLOCK: disable assert related to siginfo on non-linux systems.
   * debian/rules:
     - fix test-suite failure detection
     - Add support for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=notest
     - Install CHANGES as upstream changelog.
   * debian/doc/gap-policy.sgml:
     - Clarify that GAP_CONVERT_DATE is not interpolated.  Closes: #821304.
   * debian/gap2deb:
     - Install gap2deb in /usr/bin
     - Add manpage.
     - Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.7.
     - Use debian.gap2deb when debian already exists.
   * debian/doc/gap2man, debian/control:
     - Fix generation of manpage and improve output. Closes: #823125
     - move help2man to Build-Depends

gap (4r8p3-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * New patches to fix test suite errors:
     - fix-test-dir: disable tests that rely on $HOME which is not available
       in buildd.
     - fix-pperm: fix QuoPPerm22 on bigendian systems.
     - fix-MY_CLOCK: disable use of CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID on non-linux
       systems.

gap (4r8p3-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release. Closes: #819467
   * patches:
     - fix-testinstall.g: fix tests not to require gap-gdat
     - fix-convert.pl: updated
     - gac-object: added: add missing profile.o
     - convert.pl-repro: added. Allow reproducible build by setting
       GAP_CONVERT_DATE or SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. We recommend to set
       GAP_CONVERT_DATE to the date in the upstream manual to reduce
       differences.  Closes: #819730, #820745. Thanks Jerome Benoit.
     - gap-version-repro: added. Make gap_version.h reproductible.
   * sysinfo.gap:
     - Set GAParch to $DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH-gcc.
     - Add symlink sysinfo.gap-debian -> sysinfo.gap. Closes: #736398
   * debian/control:
     - Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.7.
   * debian/doc/gap2deb:
     - watch: add opts=pasv
   * debian/doc/gap.1:
     - update manpage
   * debian/doc/gap-policy.sgml:
     - Document GAP_CONVERT_DATE and convert.pl.
   * debian/rules:
     - Set DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH with dpkg-architecture.
     - Set SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.
     - Make sure manualindex is executable
     - add /usr/include/gap/config.h indirection.
       Closes: #819985. Thanks Julien Cristau

2015

gap (4r7p9-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
     + Note that gap-gdat 4r7p9 is identical to gap-gdat 4r7p8.
   * debian/doc/Makefile: use gzip --no-name

gap (4r7p8-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
   * new patch:
     - fix-testinstall.g: disable tests that require gap-gdat to be available
   * debian/rules: run the test "tst/testinstall.g"
   * debian/watch: add opts=pasv

gap (4r7p7-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * patches:
     - fix-convert.pl: update for gapdoc -> GAPDoc change
     - doc-makefile: use gzip --no-name
   * debian/doc/gap2deb:
     - adds support for multiple documents and tests.

gap (4r7p7-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Upload to unstable.
   * debian/rules, debian/doc/gap2deb:
     - Build with gap-gapdoc 1.5.1-2.
   * debian/control:
     - Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.6.

gap (4r7p7-1) experimental; urgency=low

   * New upstream release. Closes: #778986
     + Note that gap-gdat 4r7p7 is identical to gap-gdat 4r7p3.

2014

gap (4r7p5-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * gap-core.triggers: use interest-noawait. Thanks Guillem Jover.
     Closes: #772869

gap (4r7p5-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
    + Note that gap-gdat 4r7p5 is identical to gap-gdat 4r7p3.
    + Patches applied upstream:
     - gac-itanium: removed
     - gap-fix-alignment: removed
   * New patches added:
    - fix-basecc: force GAP to use gcc as the compiler name
   * debian/control, debian/doc/gap2deb:
     - Use improved Description from upstream. Closes: #637357
   * debian/rules
     - Add -Wl,-z,relro to LDFLAGS

gap (4r7p4-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
    + Note that gap-gdat 4r7p4 is identical to gap-gdat 4r7p3.
    + Patches applied upstream:
     - manualindex-sh: removed
     - update-convert.pl: removed
     - configure-fpic: removed
   * New patches added:
    - gap-fix-alignment: upstream patch to fix alignment issues on sparc.
    - fix-compressed-six-files: read compressed six files correctly.
    - upstream-env-tmpdir from Jerome Benoit: Honour TMPDIR. Closes: #733672

gap (4r7p2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release:
    + Patches applied upstream:
      - mips-macfloat: removed
      - hurd-task_self: removed
      - configure-abi: removed
      - configure-fpic: updated
      - configure-ncurses: removed
      - gac-object: removed
      - gac-o: removed
   * New patches added:
     - gac-itanium: Fix gac on ia64
     - manualindex-sh: add /bin/sh to doc/manualindex-sh
     - program-path: add bin to pkg installation path.
     - update-convert.pl: upstream patch to update convert.pl for current doc.
   * debian/doc:
     + gap2deb: script to generate debian directory from PackageInfo.g scripts
   * debian/control:
     - Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.5.
     - gap-dev: Add Depends on libgmp-dev. Closes: #734448.
       Thanks Jérome Benoit.

2013

gap (4r6p5-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * new patch:
      - mips-macfloat: added: workaround for an alignement issue on mips(el).
   * debian/rules:
    - build gap-dev object files with -fPIC to be compatible with use in shared
      libraries.

gap (4r6p5-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * debian/copyright: Bump version
   * patches:
      - configure: renamed to configure-gapdir
      - configure-abi: do not pass -m to gcc (fix FTBFS on ia64, mips and arm).
      - hurd-task_self: use mach_task_self instead of task_self on GNU/hurd.

gap (4r6p5-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release. Closes: #677668.
     + Fix crashes while displaying large character tables. Closes: #605269.
     + debian/tarball, debian/README.source: update for new upstream tarball
     + debian/watch: added, for new upstream tarball
     + debian/rules:
       - no need to add -fno-strict-aliasing to CFLAGS
   * Move to new source format 3.0 (quilt). Patches applied:
      - config-sub-guess: use autotools-dev config.* version
      - configure: fix path in configure
      - doc-makefile: add Makefile for clean/install
      - gac-object: fix OBJECTS variable in gac script
      - gac: update path in gac script
      - configure-fpic: use -fPIC instead of -fpic
      - configure-ncurses: do not require ncurses to link readline
   * debian/control:
     - Build-Depends on libgmp-dev and gap-gapdoc
     - gap-libs now depends on gap-gapdoc
     - Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.4.
   * debian/gap-core.triggers, debian/gap-core.postinst:
     - Fix to handle compressed workspaces
   * Move to debhelper 5
   * debian/rules:
     - use dh_prep instead of dh_clean -k

2010

gap (4r4p12-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * debian/rules:
     - add -fno-strict-aliasing to CFLAGS to avoid issues with newer gcc.
   * src/sysfiles.c:
     - Prefer termios.h over sgtty.h. This fix a build failure on kfreebsd.

2009

gap (4r4p12-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release. Closes: #510823.
     - Better support for ia64 architecture.
   * debian/rules:
     - No more build with -O0 on ia64.
   * Move doc-base menu entries to Science/Mathematics. Closes: #458543.
     Thanks Marco Rodrigues.
   * debian/README.Debian: remove paragraph about upgrade from Sarge.
   * debian/gap-core.links:
     - Add symlink /usr/share/gap/sysinfo.gap -> /usr/lib/gap/sysinfo.gap
   * debian/control:
     - Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.0.
     - Move Homepage field from description to the source section.
   * debian/tarball:
     - Extract gap and tomlib versions from files in the tarballs.
   * debian/README.source: (added)
     - Document how to generate the Debian tarballs from the upstream ones.
   * debian/gap-core.triggers, debian/gap-core.postinst
     - Set up a trigger to rebuild the system GAP workspace if it exists,
       when Debian GAP packages are updated.
   * debian/doc/update-gap-workspace.1, debian/doc/gap-policy.sgml
     - Document that the system GAP workspace is automatically updated.

2008

gap (4r4p10-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Change make_doc to use #!/bin/bash to allow building with
     /bin/sh->/bin/dash. Closes: #459064.
   * debian/copyright:
     - convert to UTF-8
   * debian/control:
     - bump Standards-Version to 3.7.3.

2007

gap (4r4p10-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
   * Change debian/tarball script to include tools tarball in source.
   * Update menu entry section to Applications/Science/Mathematics.
   * debian/control:
     - Build-Depends on texlive-base instead of tetex-*.
     - Use ${binary:Version} instead ${Source-Version}

2006

gap (4r4p9-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release

gap (4r4p8-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
   * Bump Standard-Versions to 3.7.2
   * debian/control:
      - Use ${source:Version} instead ${Source-Version} to allow binNMU.
      - Build-Depends on dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.19)
   * Fix whatis entries of gap(1) and update-gap-workspace(1).
   * Do not hard-code path to mrabbrev, see #359684. Thanks Frank Küster

gap (4r4p7-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
   * debian/rules: Change -X\\.pdf to -X.pdf since dh_install was fixed.
   * regenerate GAP manpage.

2005

gap (4r4p6-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
   * sysinfo.gap: moved to gap-core
   * debian/control: gap-core replaces gap-dev sysinfo.gap file.
   * debian/README.Debian: document that some GAP packages require
     gap-dev to build.

gap (4r4p5-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
     - This release includes lib/colorprompt.g by Frank Luebeck.
   * Update README.Debian to reflect the new instructions to set up
     colors in gap.
   * cnf/gac.in: Remove spurious final rmdir (sigh).
   * Tighten dependencies to avoid differents parts of GAP getting
     out of sync with each others.
   * Bump Standard-Versions to 3.6.2
   * Add icon to menu entry.

gap (4r4p4-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
   * Remove obsolete watch file.
   * Fix sections of doc-base files.
   * GAP packaging policy: Recommends to compress large datasets.
   * README.Debian: Add sections "Browsing GAP Documentation", "Large GAP
     libraries are compressed" and "Supporting GAP".
   * Fix update-gap-workspace scripts (use gap -R).

2004

gap (4r4p3-2) unstable; urgency=medium

   * gap-libs:
     + Add an empty /usr/share/gap/pkg directory. GAP would fail to
       start without one (if no gap-pkg-* are installed).
     + Add lib/colorprompt.g by Frank Luebeck.

gap (4r4p3-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
   * Add script update-gap-workspace to build a GAP workspace to start
     GAP faster. Please read the manpage!
   * Add debian/tarball script to split upstream tarballs.
   * gac script patch was merged upstream. Thanks the GAP team.
   * debian/control:
     + Use Homepage instead of Web page in long description.
     + Bump Standard-Version to 3.6.1.0.
     + gap now Suggests: gap-table-of-marks.
   * Document update-gap-workspace in README.Debian
   * Change gap script to automatically load GAP workspace if available.
   * gap-core.menu: quote fields properly.
   * Add the gap packaging policy document to gap-doc.
   * Run a minimal test suite at build time.
   * debian/rules: call make compile, not make to avoid strip.

2003

gap (4r3n5-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream bugfix
   * gap-doc, gap-dev: Fix section.
   * Fix gap-characters-tables --> gap-character-tables typo in Suggests:

gap (4r3n4-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * gap-doc: Install properly for use with SetHelpViewer and ctbllib.
   * gap-libs: Add pkg/ALLPKG for autoloading of gap packages.
   * control: Add Web page to description, remove false readline reference.
   * Simplify/fix gap script. Thanks Werner Nickel!
   * Bump Standard-Version to 3.5.10.0.
   * control: Replaces gap, not gap4.
   * control: gap Suggests gap-character-tables.
   * gap.1: Add reference to documentation of options.
   * gap-libs: Add support for compressed DVI files.
   * gap-core: Fix problems when writing files.

gap (4r3n4-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Initial Release of GAP first GPL version, 4r3, Bugfix 4.
   * Changelog for the old non DSFG-free versions are in changelog-3.4.Debian
     and changelog-4.2.Debian.
   * New maintainer. Closes: #103406
   * New upstream version: Closes: #155648, #155652.
   * Fix typo in description. Closes: #124660. Thanks Matt Zimmerman.
   * gap-dev contains /usr/lib/gap/src/config.h Closes: #119851
   * Include files are in /usr/include/gap Closes: #119850
   * Closes: #121846 which is obsolete due to package renaming.