[master]: New upstream version.

* internationalization: added support for various languages. Fix make
  install target to not fail when the flex++ program is already
  installed. various portability fixes that quiet compiler warnings on
  64-bit hosts. numerous bug fixes.
* Moved to a new dh based build system. Also moved to a 3.0 source
  format, using debcherry.
* Bug fix: "cross build support", thanks to Eleanor Chen. We have moved
  to a standard dh based build, so we should not have this issue any more.
  (Closes:    #719955).
* Bug fix: "examples not included into binary packages", thanks to Carl
  Fürstenberg. Examples are in this version.  (Closes: #560387).
* Bug fix: "new upstream release 2.5.37", thanks to Peter Eisentraut
  (Closes: #729759).
* Bug fix: "flex, new release available for download", thanks to
  Gianfranco Costamagna (Closes: #736345).
* Bug fix: "please mark flex as Multi-Arch: allowed", thanks to Steve
  Langasek. Redid the patch to work with dh.     (Closes: #611230).
* Updating to a new build system means that the changes made to the
  build system in the NMU are not needed, dh does the right thing.
* The new upstream release added the prototypes in re-entrant mode, so
  we are no longer carrying those patches.

Signed-off-by: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>

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+flex (2.5.33-7) unstable; urgency=low
+
+   This version of Flex is a major upgrade from previous versions. There
+   have been extensive changes. These changes require source changes in
+   lex input files.  The new direction flex is taking is to incorporate
+   new functionality at the expense of POSIX or backward
+   compatibility. This can also be considered part of the gcc migration
+   process; flex has been updated (the buggy, rickety set of patches
+   required to make it work with gcc was dumped in favour of a well
+   engineered upstream migration).
+
+   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. C++ scanners are compatible
+   with recent c++ compilers (conform to ANSI C++, gcc 3.2), supports
+   bison variables yylval and yylloc. Some variables have been
+   renamed. Flex generates C99 defs now, see YY_TRADITIONAL_FUNC_DEFS.
+   yylineno is present in all scanners. yylineno is per-buffer in
+   reentrant scanners. Flex tries its best to output only the relevant
+   portions of the skeleton when generating a scanner, thus avoiding as
+   much conditional compilation as possible
+
+   The signature of all functions has changed. flex has new command line
+   options, and option parsing has changed (now also supports POSIX
+   conventions optionally). Handles POSIXLY_CORRECT environment
+   variable.  Various i18n translations are included in the
+   distribution. Flex now works with recent bison versions.  The new
+   scanners do not polllute the global name space, and thus macros that
+   used to be available to user code are no longer present.
+
+   Flex has gained an extensive new test suite run at build time to test
+   for regressions. 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. Flex has broken backwards
+   compatibility. This is not a bug, but done deliberately, by
+   design. 
+ 
+   The package flex-old provides the same behaviour as version 2.5.4a of
+   Flex.
+
+   Please make sure you are prepared for these changes in Flex
+   before continuing with its upgrade.
+
+ -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:53:16 -0600
+