releasing version 8.72

try to move /usr into /usr/local in this case. Closes: #470905

.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+alien.lsm
+alien.spec

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
@@ -332,9 +335,13 @@ sub prep {
 	print OUT "\n";
 	print OUT "  * Converted from .".$this->origformat." format to .deb by alien version $Alien::Version\n";
 	print OUT "  \n";
-	print OUT " -- ".$this->username." <".$this->email.">  ".$this->date."\n";
+	if (defined $this->changelogtext) {
+		my $ct=$this->changelogtext;
+		$ct=~s/^/  /gm;
+		print OUT $ct."\n";
+	}
 	print OUT "\n";
-	print OUT $this->changelogtext."\n" if defined $this->changelogtext;
+	print OUT " -- ".$this->username." <".$this->email.">  ".$this->date."\n";
 	close OUT;
 
 	# Control file.

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
@@ -75,18 +78,20 @@ sub scan {
 		POSTUN => 'postrm',
 	);
 
-	# These fields need no translation except case.
-	foreach (qw{name version release arch changelogtext summary
-		    description copyright prefixes}) {
-		$fieldtrans{uc $_}=$_;
-	}
-
 	# Use --queryformat to pull out all the fields we need.
-	foreach my $field (keys(%fieldtrans)) {
-		$_=$this->runpipe(0, "LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat \%{$field} $file");
-		$field=$fieldtrans{$field};
-		$_='' if $_ eq '(none)';
-		$this->$field($_);
+	foreach my $field (qw{NAME VERSION RELEASE ARCH CHANGELOGTEXT
+		              SUMMARY DESCRIPTION COPYRIGHT PREFIXES},
+	                   keys(%fieldtrans)) {
+		my $value=$this->runpipe(0, "LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat \%{$field} $file");
+		my $key;
+		if (exists $fieldtrans{$field}) {
+			$key=$fieldtrans{$field};
+		}
+		else {
+			$key=lc($field);
+		}
+		$value='' if $value eq '(none)';
+		$this->$key($value);
 	}
 
 	# Get the conffiles list.
@@ -182,6 +187,8 @@ sub unpack {
 	#
 	# Test to see if the package contains the prefix directory already.
 	if (defined $this->prefixes && ! -e "$workdir/".$this->prefixes) {
+		my $relocate=1;
+
 		# Get the files to move.
 		my @filelist=glob("$workdir/*");
 		
@@ -190,9 +197,21 @@ sub unpack {
 		foreach (split m:/:, $this->prefixes) {
 			if ($_ ne '') { # this keeps us from using anything but relative paths.
 				$collect.="/$_";
+				if (-d $collect) {
+					# The package contains a parent
+					# directory of the relocation
+					# directory. Since it's impossible
+					# to move a parent directory into
+					# its child, bail out and do
+					# nothing.
+					$relocate=0;
+					last;
+				}
 				$this->do("mkdir", $collect) || die "unable to mkdir $collect: $!";
 			}
 		}
+
+		if ($relocate) {
 			# Now move all files in the package to the directory we made.
 			if (@filelist) {
 				$this->do("mv", @filelist, "$workdir/".$this->prefixes)
@@ -207,6 +226,7 @@ sub unpack {
 			}
 			$this->conffiles([@cf]);
 		}
+	}
 	
 	# rpm files have two sets of permissions; the set in the cpio
 	# archive, and the set in the control data; which override them.

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"
@@ -92,7 +95,7 @@ sub scan {
 	# Strip out any tar extentions.
 	$basename=~s/\.(tgz|tar\.(gz|Z))$//;
 
-	if ($basename=~m/(.*)-(.*?[0-9]+.*)/) {
+	if ($basename=~m/([\w-]+)-([0-9\.?]+).*/) {
 		$this->name($1);
 		$this->version($2);
 	}

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

@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ built.
 
 Be less strict about which patch file is used, perhaps attempting to use a patch
 file for an older verson of the package. This is not guaranteed to always work;
-older patches may necessarily not work with newer packages.
+older patches may not necessarily work with newer packages.
 
 =item B<--nopatch>
 
@@ -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 +1,51 @@
+alien (8.72) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Use debhelper 7, rules file minimisation.
+  * Improve parsing of tgz filenames, to avoid confusion when the filename
+    includes the package type (ie, "noarch"). Patch from Andrej Ricnik-Bay.
+  * When generating a debian changelog file, work around bug #478925 by
+    including the alien changelog text inside the debian changelog entry.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 01 May 2008 15:40:34 -0400
+
+alien (8.71) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Deal with rpms that relocate ie, /usr into /usr/local, and don't
+    try to move /usr into /usr/local in this case. Closes: #470905
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:35:33 -0400
+
+alien (8.70) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Extract prefixes field before extracting scripts so that
+    RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX gets set.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:05:40 -0400
+
+alien (8.69) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Alien's repository has moved from subversion to git.
+  * Minor improvement to debian/rules clean.
+  * Improve the short description.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:27:53 -0400
+
+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.

debian/compat

@@ -1 +1 @@
-4
+7

debian/control

@@ -1,17 +1,18 @@
 Source: alien
 Section: admin
 Priority: optional
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4), dpkg-dev (>= 1.9.0)
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7)
 Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
-Standards-Version: 3.7.2
-XS-Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.kitenet.net/joey/trunk/src/packages/alien
+Standards-Version: 3.7.3
+Vcs-Git: git://git.kitenet.net/alien
+Homepage: http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/
 
 Package: alien
 Architecture: all
 Section: admin
 Depends: debhelper (>= 3), ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, rpm (>= 2.4.4-2), dpkg-dev, make, cpio
 Suggests: patch, bzip2, lsb-rpm, lintian
-Description: install non-native packages with dpkg
+Description: convert and install rpm and other packages
  Alien allows you to convert LSB, Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware Packages
  into Debian packages, which can be installed with dpkg.
  .

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:
 

debian/docs

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+README
+gendiff.txt

debian/rules

@@ -1,47 +1,21 @@
 #!/usr/bin/make -f
+%:
+	dh $@
 
-build: build-stamp
-build-stamp:
-	dh_testdir
-	perl Makefile.PL
-	$(MAKE)
+build:
+	dh build
 	# simple smoke test
 	./alien.pl -V
-	touch build-stamp
-
-clean:
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_testroot
-	rm -f build-stamp
-	perl Makefile.PL
-	-$(MAKE) realclean
-	dh_clean
-
-binary-arch: build
 
 binary-indep: build
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_testroot
-	dh_clean -k
+	dh install --before dh_auto_install
 	$(MAKE) pure_install INSTALLDIRS=vendor \
 		PREFIX=$(shell pwd)/debian/alien/$(shell perl -MConfig -e 'print $$Config{prefix}') \
 		VARPREFIX=$(shell pwd)/debian/alien
-	# Why does it make this empty directory? Sigh.
-	rm -rf debian/alien/usr/lib
-	dh_installdocs README gendiff.txt
-	dh_installexamples
-	dh_installchangelogs
-	dh_compress
-	dh_fixperms
-	dh_perl
-	dh_installdeb
-	dh_gencontrol
-	dh_md5sums
-	dh_builddeb
+	dh install --after dh_auto_install
 
 # Not intended for use by anyone except the author.
 announcedir:
 	@echo ${HOME}/src/joeywiki/code/alien/news
 
 binary: binary-indep binary-arch
-.PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary