Buildroot in spec file doesn't support spaces in some RPM versions
(ALT Linux). Removed it from spec since --buildroot is already passed
on command line. Also quoted cd argument.
Some packages (e.g. vk-messenger.deb) have Description with text
starting on the next line:
Description:
Actual description text here
The regex required at least one character after colon, causing
summary to be empty. This broke conversion to RPM with error
"Empty tag: Summary".
Now uses first line of extended description as summary when the
initial Description line is empty.
Scripts (preinst, postinst, prerm, postrm) may contain literal '%'
characters (e.g., in printf format strings). When these scripts are
written directly into the RPM spec file, rpmbuild interprets '%' as
the start of a macro, causing build failures.
Commit 32f04ae removed the tar fallback in Tgz::build(), requiring
/sbin/makepkg (Slackware-specific) for --to-tgz conversion. This broke
alien on all non-Slackware systems.
Restore the fallback using the same method as the original makepkg
script.
Fixes: https://github.com/Project-OSS-Revival/alien/issues/4
* To make the ChangeLog generic removed debian specific information from each version header.
* Updated the Makefile.PL to utilize the new ChangeLog file for the version number.
1. **Modified `scan` method in `Alien/Package/Tgz.pm`:**
- The method now attempts to read and parse `install/slack-desc` from input .tgz packages.
- If found, the package's description and summary are populated from `slack-desc`.
- Fallback to existing behavior if `slack-desc` is not present.
2. **Modified `prep` method in `Alien/Package/Tgz.pm`:**
- When creating a .tgz package, an `install/slack-desc` file is now generated.
- This file is populated using the package's summary and description, formatted according to Slackware standards.
- A helper function `_format_slack_desc` was added to handle the formatting logic.
3. **Modified `build` method in `Alien/Package/Tgz.pm`:**
- When creating a .tgz package, `makepkg` is now used.
- Package is now named according to Slackware standard naming scheme.
See also: https://sourceforge.net/p/alien-pkg-convert/tickets/1/
Generated RPM packages provides directories that conflict with
the "filesystem" package. As a result, do not ship commonly-used
directories.
Patch provided by woob in the above ticket webpage.
alien (8.95) unstable; urgency=medium
* QA upload.
* debian/control:
- Bumped Standards-Version to 3.9.6.
- Removed duplicated section field.
* debian/copyright:
- Replaced protocol from http to https in the Format field.
- Included authors' e-mail addresses.
- Replaced GPL-2+ license reference by actual GPL-2+ license.
* debian/source/format: Created as 3.0 (native).
alien (8.94) unstable; urgency=medium
* QA upload.
* Fix "FTBFS with perl 5.22 in experimental (MakeMaker changes)":
remove override_dh_auto_install in debian/rules, and
use DESTDIR in Makefile.PL.
(Closes: #792371)
Add support for control.tar, control.tar.xz, data.tar, data.tar.xz,
data.tar.bz2 (deprecated) and data.tar.lzma (deprecated), so that the
fallback code is in line with current dpkg-deb.
The deprecated members are supported because there might be such binary
packages laying around.
