From 15b992c58f74f98f7755418d07e9693b2465b882 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: joey <joey@a4a2c43b-8ac3-0310-8836-e0e880c912e2>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 17:37:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH]    * Fix for extracting control files from debs on systems
 w/o dpkg-deb.      Don't try to extract "file", just "./file".

---
 Alien/Package/Deb.pm | 6 ++----
 debian/changelog     | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Alien/Package/Deb.pm b/Alien/Package/Deb.pm
index 5e7021c..efba3b1 100644
--- a/Alien/Package/Deb.pm
+++ b/Alien/Package/Deb.pm
@@ -136,12 +136,10 @@ sub getcontrolfile {
 
 			return "(mkdir /tmp/tar_out.$$ &&".
 				" cd /tmp/tar_out.$$ &&".
-				# Have to handle old debs without a leading ./ and
-				# new ones with it.
-				" tar xf - $file ./$file &&".
+				" tar xf - ./$file &&".
 				" cat $file; cd /; rm -rf /tmp/tar_out.$$)";
 		}
-		my $getcontrol = "ar -p $file control.tar.gz | gzip -dc | ".tar_out($controlfile)." 2>/dev/null";
+		my $getcontrol = "ar -p $file control.tar.gz | gzip -dc | ".tar_out($controlfile);
 		return `$getcontrol`
 	}
 }
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 1be02d6..0901ce7 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+alien (8.11) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix for extracting control files from debs on systems w/o dpkg-deb.
+    Don't try to extract "file", just "./file".
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 12 Jun 2002 13:34:09 -0400
+
 alien (8.10) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Build alien with debhelper v4.