releasing version 8.76

Alien/Package/Deb.pm

@@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ sub email {
 		close MAILNAME;
 	}
 	if (!$mailname) {
-		$mailname=$this->runpipe(1, "hostname -f");
+		$mailname=$this->runpipe(1, "hostname");
 		chomp $mailname;
 	}
 	return "$login\@$mailname";
@@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ sub postinst {
 	return $postinst unless %$owninfo;
 	
 	my ($firstline, $rest)=split(/\n/, $postinst, 2);
-	if ($firstline !~ m/^#!\s*\/bin\/sh/) {
+	if ($firstline !~ m/^#!\s*\/bin\/(ba)?sh/) {
 		print STDERR "warning: unable to add ownership fixup code to postinst as the postinst is not a shell script!\n";
 		return $postinst;
 	}

Alien/Package/Rpm.pm

@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ sub _script_helper {
 			$value="#!/bin/bash\n$prefixcode$value";
 		}
 		else {
-			$value=~s@^#!\s*/bin/sh(\s)@#/bin/bash$1@;
+			$value=~s@^#!\s*/bin/sh(\s)@#!/bin/bash$1@;
 			$value=~s/\n/\n$prefixcode/s;
 		}
 		$this->{$script} = $value;

debian/changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+alien (8.76) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Avoid using hostname -f for portability to unix systems,
+    such as Solaris, where any options _set_ the hostname.
+  * Fix bash shebang and recognise bash scripts as editable
+    shell scripts when converting to deb. Closes: #532330
+    (Thanks, Bruce Stephens)
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:22:35 -0400
+
 alien (8.75) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Simplified rules file.