Please sync gambc 4.2.8-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main).

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Please sync gambc 4.2.8-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main).

New upstream release, lots of fixes since 4.2.0: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/repo/gambit/?shortlog. Debian package fixes many bugs also. b/i/r

Explanation of the Ubuntu delta and why it can be dropped:
Adopted in Debian.

Changelog since current intrepid version 4.0~b20-1ubuntu1:

gambc (4.2.8-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
  * Upstream has split shared lib into three; modify packaging to match
  * Fix typo in gambc Suggests: r5rs-doc, move to gambc-doc(Closes: #449609)
  * Split deb build into arch-dependent and arch-independent
  * Simplify clean target's autoconf run commands
  * Update watch file to revised tarball naming pattern (Closes: #450131)
  * Update copyright
  * Bootstrap gambit before modifying _gsc.c to reduce patch hackery
  * libgambc4-dev becomes libdevel - optional
  * Was FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD: missing OS detection (Closes: #414024)
  * Was FTBFS on second attempt (Closes: #424288)
  * debian/rules: Move "-Wl,-z,defs" from CFLAGS to LDFLAGS to avoid a lot
    of irrelevant linker messages
  * Fix debian-rules-ignores-make-clean-error
  * Add XS-DM-Upload-Allowed field to control
  * Update to Standards-Version 3.7.3
  * Update to debhelper Compatibility Level 6
  * Accept ubuntu patch: use update-alternatives when installing scheme-r5rs
  * Update gsi.1: Copyright, available documentation, enhance description
  * 4.2.6-1 was on mentors.debian.net for 10 days but never uploaded
  * Fix bashism in debian/rules (Closes: #478383)
  * 4.2.6-2 was on mentors.debian.net for 60 days but never uploaded
  * Change /usr/lib/ installation dir from gambc4.0 to gambc4
  * Run autoconf on autobuilders - simplify the configuration in
    debian/rules and remove the lintian overrides for changes to
    config.sub, config.guess, and configure
  * Update to Standards Version 3.8.0
  * Revise debian/copyright to reflect that the text of the Apache 2.0
    License is now included in the Debian system distribution.
  * Add Vcs-Svn and Vcs-Browser fields to debian/control
  * CFLAGS now handled by dpkg-buildpackage
  * autotools-dev dropped autoconf dependency, add autoconf to builddeps
  * Update debian/rules to reflect current way of passing arch to configure
  * Improve clean target: do a distclean in all dirs except gsc/

 -- Kurt B. Kaiser <email address hidden> Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:01:22 -0400