Changelog for
gawk-5.1.0-4.3.i586.rpm :
* Thu Feb 04 2021 Ludwig Nussel
- fix update-alternatives usage. Needs to be in %postun according to https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Multiple_Version_guidelines#update-alternatives_mechanism
* Mon Dec 14 2020 Ludwig Nussel - prepare usrmerge (boo#1029961)- remove use of obsolete %install_info
* Wed Apr 15 2020 Paolo Stivanin - Update to 5.1.0:
* The major version of the API is bumped to 3, something that should have happened at the 5.0.0 release but didn\'t.
* A number of memory leak issues have been fixed.
* Infrastructure upgrades: Bison 3.5.4, Texinfo 6.7, Gettext 0.20.1, Automake 1.16.2.
* The indexing in the manual has been thoroughly revised, in particular making use of the facilities in Texinfo 6.7. That version (or newer) must be used to format the manual.
* MSYS2 is now supported out-of-the-box by configure.
* Several bugs have been fixed. See the ChangeLog for details.- Removed gawk-inplace-namespace-part3.patch- Removed gawk-inplace-namespace-part1.patch- Removed gawk-inplace-namespace-part2.patch
* Tue Oct 22 2019 Neal Gompa - Fix typo in Summary- Stop overriding %_libexecdir with %_libdir
* Tue Oct 22 2019 Igor Gnatenko - Fix the backward compatibility of the inplace extension:
* Add gawk-inplace-namespace-part1.patch
* Add gawk-inplace-namespace-part2.patch
* Add gawk-inplace-namespace-part3.patch- Run autoreconf as part of the build process
* Tue Aug 27 2019 Jan Engelhardt - Upgrade descriptions.
* Mon Aug 12 2019 Andreas Stieger - GNU awk 5.0.1:
* Sandbox mode now disallows assigning new filename values in ARGV that were not there when gawk was invoked
* The new argument \"no-ext\" to --lint disables \"XXX is a gawk extension\" lint warnings- possibly incompatible changes in 5.0.0:
* Add support for the POSIX standard %a and %A printf formats
* Replace regex routines with those from GNULIB
* PROCINFO[\"platform\"] yields a string indicating the platform for which gawk was compiled.
* Writing to elements of SYMTAB that are not variable names now causes a fatal error
* New comment handling in the pretty-printer
* Namespaces have been implemented. Files included with -i, read with -f, and command line program segments must all be self- contained syntactic units.
* now uses the locale settings for ignoring case in single byte locales, instead of hardwiring in Latin-1
* Mon Feb 26 2018 astiegerAATTsuse.com- GNU awk 4.2.1:
* documentation updates
* In MPFR mode, When ROUNDMODE changes, string values for numerically type values will be redone
* various bug fixes
* drop fold-string.patch, upstream- Use %license (boo#1082318)
* Sat Oct 21 2017 schwabAATTlinux-m68k.org- fold-string.patch: Don\'t fold constant strings if either is translatable
* Thu Oct 19 2017 schwabAATTlinux-m68k.org- Update to gawk 4.2.0
* If not in POSIX mode, changes to ENVIRON are reflected into gawk\'s environment
* The series of numbers returned by rand() should now be \"more random\" than previously
* Multiple changes related to the pretty printer
* The igawk script and igawk.1 man page are no longer installed
* Gawk now processes a maximum of two hexadecimal digits in \\x escape sequences inside strings
* Setting PROCINFO[\"redirection\", \"NONFATAL\"] to true makes I/O errors for \"redirection\" not fatal
* Gawk now supports retryable I/O via PROCINFO[input-file, \"RETRY\"]
* Revisions in the POSIX standard remove the special case for POSIX mode when FS = \" \" where newline was not a field separator
* Gawk now supports strongly typed regexp constants
* The new typeof() function can be used to indicate if a variable or array element is an array, regexp, string or number
* Optimizations are now enabled by default
* Passing negative operands to any of the bitwise functions now produces a fatal error
* The mktime function now accepts an optional second argument
* The FIELDWIDTHS parsing syntax has been enhanced to allow specifying how many characters to skip before a field starts
* The PROCINFO[\"argv\"] array records all of gawk\'s command line arguments as gawk received them- gawk_ppc64le_ignore_transient_test_time_failure.patch: removed
