releasing version 8.68

install scripts may have important output or even be interactive.
  Closes; #425732

Alien/Package.pm

@@ -446,7 +446,8 @@ sub do {
 	}
 	else {
 		# parent
-		return (waitpid($pid, 0) > 0);
+		my $ret=(waitpid($pid, 0) > 0);
+		return ! $ret || ! $?;
 	}
 }
 

Alien/Package/Deb.pm

@@ -87,8 +87,11 @@ sub install {
 	my $this=shift;
 	my $deb=shift;
 
+	my $v=$Alien::Package::verbose;
+	$Alien::Package::verbose=2;
 	$this->do("dpkg", "--no-force-overwrite", "-i", $deb)
 		or die "Unable to install";
+	$Alien::Package::verbose=$v;
 }
 
 =item test
@@ -646,10 +649,10 @@ Returns the date, in rfc822 format.
 sub date {
 	my $this=shift;
 
-	my $date=$this->runpipe(1, "822-date");
+	my $date=$this->runpipe(1, "date -R");
 	chomp $date;
 	if (!$date) {
-		die "822-date did not return a valid result. You probably need to install the dpkg-dev debian package";
+		die "date -R did not return a valid result.";
 	}
 
 	return $date;

Alien/Package/Pkg.pm

@@ -106,8 +106,11 @@ sub install {
 	my $pkg=shift;
 
 	if (-x "/usr/sbin/pkgadd") {
+		my $v=$Alien::Package::verbose;
+		$Alien::Package::verbose=2;
 		$this->do("/usr/sbin/pkgadd", "-d .", "$pkg")
 			or die "Unable to install";
+		$Alien::Package::verbose=$v;
 	}
 	else {
 		die "Sorry, I cannot install the generated .pkg file because /usr/sbin/pkgadd is not present.\n";

Alien/Package/Rpm.pm

@@ -53,8 +53,11 @@ sub install {
 	my $this=shift;
 	my $rpm=shift;
 
+	my $v=$Alien::Package::verbose;
+	$Alien::Package::verbose=2;
 	$this->do("rpm -ivh ".(exists $ENV{RPMINSTALLOPT} ? $ENV{RPMINSTALLOPT} : '').$rpm)
 		or die "Unable to install";
+	$Alien::Package::verbose=$v;
 }
 
 =item scan

Alien/Package/Slp.pm

@@ -114,8 +114,11 @@ sub install {
 	my $this=shift;
 	my $slp=shift;
 
+	my $v=$Alien::Package::verbose;
+	$Alien::Package::verbose=2;
 	$this->do("slpi", $slp)
 		or die "Unable to install";
+	$Alien::Package::verbose=$v;
 }
 
 =item getfooter

Alien/Package/Tgz.pm

@@ -66,8 +66,11 @@ sub install {
 	my $tgz=shift;
 
 	if (-x "/sbin/installpkg") {
+		my $v=$Alien::Package::verbose;
+		$Alien::Package::verbose=2;
 		$this->do("/sbin/installpkg", "$tgz")
 			or die "Unable to install";
+		$Alien::Package::verbose=$v;
 	}
 	else {
 		die "Sorry, I cannot install the generated .tgz file because /sbin/installpkg is not present. You can use tar to install it yourself.\n"

README

@@ -3,14 +3,7 @@ Please read alien's man page for general documentation.
 Getting alien:
 
   The newest versions of alien are available at the alien home page; drop by
-  http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/
-
-  On metalab and its mirrors, alien is located in the
-  pub/Linux/utils/scripts/ directory.
-
-  You can also get rpm or deb packages of alien: 
-  deb: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/unstable/binary-all/admin/alien_*.deb
-  rpm: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/noarch/alien-*.rpm
+  http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/
 
 Other things you'll need:
 
@@ -27,8 +20,7 @@ Other things you'll need:
   dpkg, dpkg-dev, and debhelper (version 3 or above) packages, which are
   available on http://packages.debian.org
 
-  To convert to/from stampede packages, you will need bzip2, get it from
-	http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2/index.html
+  To convert to/from stampede packages, you will need bzip2.
 
   Attention, Slackware, Red Hat, and Stampede users: Bruce S. Babcock
   <babcock@math.psu.edu> has put together an "alien-extra"
@@ -43,10 +35,6 @@ Other things you'll need:
   The Stampede version is at
   	ftp://ykbsb2.yk.psu.edu/pub/alien/alien-extra.slp
 
-  Solaris users can find pkg's of much of the above software,
-  at http://mah.everybody.org/hacks/os/solaris/ , thanks to Mark
-  A. Hershberger <mah@everybody.org>.
-
 Note:
 
   Alien is really designed to be used to convert from alien file formats to

alien.pl

@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ Note that without an argument, this displays the version of B<alien> instead.
 =item B<-c>, B<--scripts>
 
 Try to convert the scripts that are meant to be run when the
-package is installed and removed. Use this with caution, becuase these
+package is installed and removed. Use this with caution, because these
 scripts might be designed to work on a system unlike your own, and could
 cause problems. It is recommended that you examine the scripts by hand
 and check to see what they do before using this option.

debian/changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,25 @@
+alien (8.68) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Show output of installation of package with -i, since some packages
+    install scripts may have important output or even be interactive.
+    Closes: #425732
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 24 May 2007 14:08:39 -0400
+
+alien (8.67) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Update the url to the web page, and remove several other broken urls from
+    the README.
+  * Correct a bug that caused alien to ignore failing commands. Closes: #424858
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 17 May 2007 13:34:36 -0400
+
+alien (8.66) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Use date -R as 822-date will soon be deprecated.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:45:24 -0400
+
 alien (8.65) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Fix alien's own spec file, s/Copyright/License/.

debian/copyright

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ This program is now maintained by Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>.
 Copyright 1996, 1997 Christoph Lameter
 Portions copyright 1997 Randolph Chung
 Portions copyright 2001 Mark A. Hershberger
-Copyright 1997-2005 Joey Hess
+Copyright 1997-2007 Joey Hess
 
 License: